A Californian company has come up with a technology that can digitise a physical part in a matter of minutes, cutting the ...

Backflip is pioneering AI models and tools for people who design the physical world. Its AI CAD copilot collapses the barriers between idea and implementation, and is built for creative ...

Use AutoCAD's "Extrude" and "Revolve" commands to turn 2-D designs into 3-D models. "Extrude" is how 3-D modelers to refer to the technique of stretching a 2-D shape into 3-D space. AutoCAD performs ...

Supporting CAD files for this column are available for download here. Mainstream 3D CAD offers many alternative modeling techniques that can be combined to arrive at about the same ending point. The ...

One of the best things about external cloud computing resources is that it makes accessing resources to run compute-intensive applications more affordable. The downside is that approach can introduce ...

Every piece with repeating motifs, a bracelet with floral clusters, a necklace with linked filigree, or a pave band required ...

Are you ready to design a "molecular" machine? Software that is a distant cousin of conventional solidmodeling packages may turn today's designers into molecular engineers. The future of technology is ...

In some ways, it's the CAD industry's version of thoseage-old debates, like the one over Coke vs. Pepsi, or republican vs. democrat.As the discourse heats up over the merits of traditional parametric, ...