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Direct Editing and Direct Modeling

Paul Hamilton’s comment made me wonder why there may be some confusion regarding what I have been calling “Direct Editing” on

Solid modelers like IronCAD, CoCreate, KeyCreator, etc. have been doing direct editing for quite a while. But somehow the entrance

It all started with me speculating about SolidWorks’ use of Siemens’ Parasolid kernel and not Dassault’s V6 platform. Then to

A year ago I did a Part 1, in which I defined Digital Prototyping as “the difference between modeling and

During my recent visit to the PTC headquarters in Needham, Asa Trainer, Director – Product Management, explained to me PTC’s

Evan Yares left a comment on my earlier post (“Inventor Fusion and SolidWorks Confusion“), attempting to explain why SolidWorks could

In a post on this blog six months ago, I wrote: “It is my prediction that a version of AutoCAD

The Lonely Engineer blog is dead. I have to admit, I never really understood what it was all about. The

I am back in office after almost a month and the place is still standing. Which means that my employees

In my OpenCAD book, I explain how to write a DRX plug-in. I start with a simple “Hello World” plug-in