Jennifer Herron, CEO of Action Engineering, interviewed Raphael Nascimento, CADIQ Product Manager at International TechneGroup Inc. (ITI), for this featured blog about 3D enterprise accountability. Action Engineering appreciates ITI’s generous support as a Signature Sponsor of the 2018 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress in Golden, Colorado on October 15-18, 2018. Can You Trust Your Models? […]
Capturing Product Behavioral and Contextual Characteristics through a Model-Based Feature Information Network (MFIN)
Presentation Capturing Product Behavioral and Contextual Characteristics through a Model-Based Feature Information Network (MFIN) (DMDII 15-11-08) DMDII project update on MFIN: moving MBD beyond geometry and 3D annotations to address the larger product lifecycle. Computer Aided Design (CAD) software used to design mechanical parts continues to evolve, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes continue to […]
Gearing Up for MBD
I typically start my work day sitting on my butt, coffee in hand, reading emails, writing emails, determining where the cultural barriers lie to adopting Model-Based Definition. My thoughts today are on the family dynamic. Since we all know that your company is like a family (dysfunctional or highly functioning), consider how MBD (CAD model […]
Enterprise 3D Printing: All About That Communication
I recently co-authored “Towards Annotations and Product Definitions for Additive Manufacturing” with Dr. Paul Witherell and Dr. Gaurav Ameta. The title sounds official, as it should for a published paper, but perhaps, between you and me, we could give it a lighter name: All About That Communication. Cue Meghan Trainor. Forms of the word “communicate” appear 43 times in the paper! Yes, […]
Measuring Digital Thread Value: NIST MBE Summit 2016
Government and commercial entities gathered at the MBE Summit in April 2016 to discuss the digital thread and Model-Based Engineering. This annual event is hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The purpose of the MBE Summit is to identify challenges, research, implementation issues, and lessons learned in manufacturing and quality assurance where […]
Unsolicited Advice for the New Engineer: GD&T & Design Software
Learning GD&T is just as important as learning trigonometry. After spending 20 years designing advanced hardware, I have some unsolicited advice for new engineers. Although you may be a most innovative thinker and may be able to create fantastic widgets, understanding how your part will be manufactured is just as important (perhaps moreso) than that […]
Learning on the Fly: Design to 3D Print
Every time I dive into an additive manufactured (AM) design project, the outcome of that design (the part) is always a bit of a surprise. I expect most of you have experienced something similar. Read more about AM surprises at GrabCAD >>
Why Use GD&T for 3D Printing?
As rapid prototyping techniques evolve from sculpture and form representation into parts that are utilized in the field, the need to convey the CAD designer’s design, manufacturing, and inspection intent for a product that is manufactured using additive manufacturing (AM) techniques must also be captured in conjunction with the geometry. I know what you’re thinking, […]