Join us for a 3D CIC: Home Edition virtual event on January 20, 2021, with a little friendly competition! Enter your best show of tolerancing for a chance to win prizes up to $100. We all like to think we can tolerance our parts in accordance with ASME Y14.5, but the tolerancing game isn’t always […]
CAD Interoperability and the OSCAR CAD Toolkit
In most cases, a “Model-Based Enterprise” is going to include multiple CAD platforms. You could be a large corporation that uses multiple CAD applications or a smaller company that only uses one but has suppliers that use other CAD platforms. This reality means CAD interoperability challenges cannot be ignored. While each CAD system has strengths and weaknesses, the big five are capable of: modeling geometry, creating 3D annotations, defining attributes (metadata), and creating “presentation states.” We […]
Introduction to Model-Based Definition (MBD)
Action Engineering has assembled a series of self-paced, online courses designed to advance the learning and adoption of the Model-Based philosophy across design and manufacturing sectors. I am Duane Hess, CIO of Action Engineering and instructor for Course 102. This course provides an introduction and orientation to 3D Model-Based Definition (MBD) data sets and the […]
Attention PTC Creo Users: ModelCHECK Book Hot Off the Press!
Hot off the press this month! The second book in the “Re-Use Your CAD” series, Re-Use Your CAD: The ModelCHECK Handbook by R. L. Astheimer, de-mystifies ModelCHECK so PTC Creo (and Pro/ENGINEER) users can verify the quality of their 3D CAD models to support their organization’s model-based initiatives. Have you tried to implement ModelCHECK in […]
STOP! Collaborate and Listen – MBE Workshop on CAD
It is time to stop worrying about what you can not do with your CAD models and focus on what you can do with them. Many times, you are the CAD Super User trying to make your job and everyone’s more efficient. However, don’t go it alone. Integrating, Interoperating and Collaborating with CAD comes in […]
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 […]
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 […]
