Is this your current design workflow? Design products using 3D CAD, then create 2D drawings, release those drawings, share the drawings with other departments and the supply chain… Why do we work the way we do? Why do we model parts and assemblies in 3D, and then create 2D drawings, and use them through the rest […]
3D Printing = Additive Manufacturing (AM)
“The Additive Aerospace Industry is Taking Flight!” There is a conference happening on additive manufacturing for the aerospace, defense, civilian, small sat, and UAV. This event is well sponsored and has many key stakeholders presenting such as: Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing, NASA, Raytheon, and Pratt & Whitney. This is game changing stuff, and an event I […]
Design Assurance – CAD 3D Modeling Handbook
Are you involved in Design Quality Assurance at your organization? Have you read this book? If not, I encourage you to do so. Have you already read it? Please write a review. Learn how to create, deliver, and re-use CAD models in compliance with model-based standards. Provides CAD format agnostic techniques for compliance with ASME Y14.41 […]
A 3D Printed Tree Frog
Why 3D print a tree frog? Well, because you can…. Spending the day yesterday with my friends at CEM-TEK at the SOCOM (SOUTHERN COLORADO MANUFACTURING EXPO) I was struck by the fact that I would delete email requests, and hide behind the water cooler from anyone who asked me to make a drawing of this tree frog. So […]
CAD Best Practice: Resilient Modeling
A partnership of Michael Hadley (Michael Hadley & Associates LLC) and Richard Gebhard (Assembly Technology Inc) results in great, and YES free, web accessible training videos that instruct in CAD best practices. The instructional videos are offered using ProEngineer (Wildfire/CREO), Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge, and SolidWorks.Voice-over instructional videos, present three main elements. A strategy to […]
3D PDFs are cool, but do they do it all?
Anark Core 4.3.2 debuted last week at the GPDIS 2014 Conference in Phoenix, AZ, hosted by Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Parker Aerospace. Having used Anark’s Core product to publish MBD data sets into 3D PDFs, I have to admit that after careful setup, it is a nice “push-button” publishing solution. Integrating with PDM/PLM systems certainly fills […]
Semantic PMI Defined: Product Manufacturing Information
PMI is Product Manufacturing Information. In ASME Y14.41 language this means the annotations and attributes contained in a 3D solid model that compliment the geometric definition and complete the digital data set. PMI is a critical data component of a 3D solid model that enables Model-Based Engineering (MBE). The process and artifact of applying PMI […]
MBE Organization Spruces Up Its Website
MIL-STD-31000A is released, but now the creators are focused on pushing out the message of Model-Based Enterprise (MBE). Vendors are developing great presentations that circulate around how their software products support MBE. And now, the original Model-Based Enterprise creators have put together a slick new website. This information is all software tool agnostic. Read more […]