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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]