Jennifer Herron, CEO of Action Engineering, recently interviewed Annalise Suzuki, Elysium’s Director of Sales in the Americas, for this featured blog about 3D CAD collaboration and interoperability. Action Engineering appreciates Elysium’s generous support as a Signature Sponsor of the 2016 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress, being held in Golden, Colorado on October 25 & 26, […]
Fighting Your 3D CAD Demons
Businesses are all about risk and managing that risk. It’s really important to understand what the risks are so that they can be properly mitigated. Hopefully you’ve already faced your 3D CAD demons. Now let’s dig into some misconceptions about them, to better enable you to fight those demons within your organization. Read more about […]
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 […]
The Many Flavors of CAD Maintenance
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. CAD maintenance reminds me more of Dr. Who tumbling about the Tardis with one hand on the throttle (is that what that thing is?) and […]
Facing Your 3D CAD Demons
Most organizations have not achieved their desired level of Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) maturity. What to do? Step 1: face your demons. That is, identify the barriers preventing your organization from becoming the MBE “of your dreams.” It’s easier to move forward once you understand what’s holding you back. CULTURE and TECHNOLOGY are the two common […]
How to Maximize 2D & 3D CAD Modeling Efficiencies
We use 2D and 3D CAD, but we certainly aren’t RE-USING it Aren’t most companies using 3D CAD? Yes, most are, less those rare cases where manufactures are still modifying 2D AutoCAD drawings to satisfy their customers. Yet those designing with 3D CAD are still not reaping the full benefits. Meaning that they have […]