I know that the posting title looks a little oblique, but the ANSI standard for Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (Y14.5) will have a 2009 revision next month. For those of you not aware, GD&T is central to engineering design. The new…
We get the opportunity to work with just about all of the latest CAD software: CATIA, NX, Pro/E, SolidWorks… each has its own idiosyncracies and most of them take days if not weeks to learn before you become productive. The…
This diagram is a little dated, but it’s a nice picture that illustrates the positioning of the major CAD and PDM packages from Siemens, PTC, Dassault, etc.
A recent quality report by the ASQ (American Society for Quality) confirmed that times are tough but may not be as bleak as they appear upon first glance for certain companies. It states that: On the one hand are those…
For those of you interested in a Blog that gets into the details of integrating and customizing the suite of PTC tools (Pro/E, Intralink, etc.), you may be interested in this web site…
I came across this whitepaper entitled “Going from 2D-to-3D: Why Make the Change Now“. In one section the author discusses the benefits of opting 3D CAD over 2D CAD and makes an interesting analogy. With 2D CAD, your documentation package…
Another interesting article on model centric design – A landmark study from Aberdeen Group reports that 85% of the current CAD users still primarily use 2D drafting. This astonishing statistic means that most companies use CAD software as a drafting…
Longview Advisors recently published the results from their survey on “3D collaboration and Interoperability“. Some of the interesting comments: “SolidWorks and Pro/ENGINEER are the most often used primary CAD systems among survey respondents… CATIA and NX, while still leading in…
I found an interesting whitepaper entitled “5 Secrets for Making the Model-Based Enterprise a Reality“: Leading aerospace and defense companies are aggressively pursuing the Model-Based Enterprise as a means to accelerate product development… there are enough prominent examples of problems…
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