It's hard to believe that we're on our fourth installment of "10 interesting CAD models," but here we are. We've got more of the good stuff - cars, knives, and even a user-designed 3D printer. (more…)
Dec
29
Dec
22
Revolution? What revolution? In 2005, Adobe® made a bold move by adding support for interactive 3D graphics within PDF files, including Acrobat® Reader®, which continues to this day. More importantly, Adobe acquired a file format that enabled 3D PDF to be adopted throughout the manufacturing industry. How that format has... read more →
Dec
17
While we’re all used to the notion that gravity likes to pull our 3D prints downward, new technology may be on the horizon which could change the game for printing time and material waste; helping us achieve a new level of sanity. (more…)
Dec
15
Remember the Maytag guy? Remember how bored he was, sitting around twiddling his thumbs because a Maytag dishwasher was uber reliable? Yeah, well, that’s not the case for CAD administrators. (more…)
Dec
11
Engineers, in general, aren’t well known for their dispassion. Whether in person or on the internet, it’s not exactly unthinkable for one engineer to tell another that she is impossibly wrong. Not just kind of wrong, either. Spectacularly wrong. Phrenology wrong. Static universe wrong. Nobody really raises an eyebrow when... read more →
Dec
08
What if you had a dollar for every time someone grumbled about a young engineering grad creating impossible to manufacture designs due to lack of practical experience? And what if you also had a dollar for every engineering grad that wished their degree program gave them more job relevant skills... read more →
Dec
03
I don’t know a designer or a CAD modeler who hasn’t been through a phase where he/she was speaking about his/her work in artistic terms rather than technical ones. I also don’t know anyone who hasn’t had to face someone criticising a design through an artsy tirade leaving them clueless... read more →
Dec
01
Over the past few years, there’s been more and more talk about a new class of design optimization tools. Many of these tools create designs directly from the functional requirements that the user sets; others modify existing designs based on finite element simulations. While many of them are both experimental... read more →
Nov
21
It’s a common enough scenario. You work late into the evening to get your latest and greatest design iteration queued up for printing overnight and your client is scheduled to visit you first thing in the morning. You need that print to work first time, even if it involves joints... read more →
