If you are active in the CAD world and haven’t heard of Al Dean and Develop3D, then you are seriously missing out.
Al does a great job of looking at the MCAD Industry as a whole …

This is just the first post of many to come on this. I’m going to try and hit the highlights and then we will get into some of the details later. Today at …

Well…after Vista x64 started giving me a few “blue screens” and the fact that I had a slow week at work, I figured this was an opportune time to update my M6400 to Windows 7 …

Have you ever wished that you could turn back time and look at what previous versions of SolidWorks looked like?  Perhaps you have a customer who is a few versions back and you can’t quite …

Ben Eadie of SolidMentor recently filmed an episode with Patrick Norton at Revision3.com showing off his home built laser scanner.  Click the image above to check out the episode!
Congrats to Ben for making his first …

No, SolidWorks 2009 has NOT exploded.  But it has now “officially” burst onto the scene this week with SolidWorks posting their SolidWorks 2009 Launch site and Industry Magazines putting out stories.
The SolidWorks 2009 Launch site …

It’s time now for the third installment of my series of reviews on 3dvia.  In case you missed it, make sure you check out my first and second reviews.
This review will focus on 3dvia Shape …

I’ve put it off writing about this subject matter for quite some time now but with the recent announcement of yet another CAD company touting Direct Modeling, CAD 2.0, Non-History based modeling, or whatever other …

Well, its time for Chapter 2 in my definition search of 3dvia.  In case you missed it, make sure you catch the first installment of my posts on 3dvia.
This time out we are going …

If you frequent ANY CAD or 3D related web sites these days you can’t help but have run across 3dvia somewhere.  I’m sure many of you have been wondering like I have what its …

If you have been frequenting some of the SolidWorks Blogs here lately, you can’t help but find a link back to Roopinder Tara’s CAD Insider Blog where he has been discussing the differences between the …

Autodesk has sued the Open Design Alliance over the 2007 .DWG file format.  AECNews has a good article with details.
Rob Rodriguez has started an interesting discussion related to this talking about data exchange in the …