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The design has come a long way since the days of paper and pencil drafting. Even 2D CAD, a staple of design and engineering since the 1980s has mostly been replaced by 3D design, PLM, and PDM. If you’re a CAD designer or engineer, the tool and processes you...

Take a Look at Our Meshing Case Study! To obtain a proper STL file, you need a program that triangulates the points to create the appropriate vectors. The shell created in STL is what the cutting machine slices. Here are a few tips, as outlined below. Point cloud...

The American Institute of Architects, AIA, sets standards for computer-aided design — or CAD — documents. Most building projects require drawings that meet AIA standards. AIA layering standards assign specific layer names, content descriptions, colors,...

3D Scanning & Data Capture Considerations and Processes 3D Scanning is a method of digitally capturing the shape of a physical object without touching or affecting the object in any way. It is totally non-destructive. Laser scanning is the fastest, most...

Take a Look at Our Case Studies! Solidworks as a platform offers two main 2D to 3D pathways; drawing from scratch and remodeling existing ‘.DWG’ and ‘.DXF’ files as 3D models. The functionality of importing an existing 2D drawing and upgrading it into a...

There’s hardly an industry around that hasn’t been impacted in some way by 3D CAD modeling. From the entertainment industry to the manufacturing industry, 3D models abound. Even the Smithsonian Institution has gotten in on the act by creating the first-ever 3D...