New Game, New Rules: Now It's Personal
A time is coming when owning a personal 3D CAD system will be as common for designers, engineers, machinists and others in manufacturing industries as a carpenter owning a set of hand tools, or a writer owning a word processor.
This isn’t uncommon; in many industries individuals skilled in a particular trade own their own personal set of “tools of the trade.” Writers have word processors, photographers have cameras and lenses, painters have paints and brushes, woodworkers have saws, drills, lathes, and myriad of other small tools. Usually the more serious one is about their skill the more advanced and professional grade the tools. This trend was also seen in the desktop publishing and graphic design when formerly exclusive desktop applications became accessible to anyone. Now it’s commonplace to find a graphic designer who has their own personal copy of PhotoShop and Illustrator. I spoke about a related trend in a previous post calling it Democratization, wherein formerly exclusive technologies are becoming accessible to the mainstream.
In these times of outsourcing and “off-shoring” it’s also becoming important for people to take control of their own destiny. Rather than depending on a lifetime job at one employer, personally owning the responsibility of building and honing skills that make one valuable and employable is becoming the prudent path to ensuring long-term income potential.
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Until Next Time,
Greg Milliken, CEO
Let’s say you’re trying to make something highly ergonomic like a computer mouse. You know the overall shape you want to achieve, but it’s composed of multiple parts that all have to fit together with perfect tangency on every edge. There’s an easy way and a hard, time consuming, very laborious way. Unfortunately most people intuitively use the second. If you’re thinking to yourself, “this will require a lot of lofts and guide curves” or anything along those lines, then this tech tip is for you. Prepare to save a couple hours or days of work for these types of projects.
