Makeway, The Marble Wall Game – Elyasaf Shweka – Ep79 Elyasaf is an Industrial Designer and a self-taught Carpenter. He lives in Jerusalem, Israel and has his own small wood workshop. He is the creator of the amazing Makeway marble wall game. His family ran a construction company and Elyasaf worked there as a project manager. However, his passion was in design…
Check out Scott Tarcy’s interview on the UpMyInfluence podcast with Josh Elledge https://upmyinfluence.com/cad_design_help_tarcy/
Don’t Wait too Long to Apply for your Patent– Devin Miller – Ep78 Devin is a patent attorney and the founder of Miller IP Law that focuses on startups and small businesses. He found a gap in the startup/small business area for a need in intellectual property (IP). When you work with Devin, he…
What is an API? An Application Programming Interface (API) is a shared boundary provided by a software to facilitate communication. In the case of a CAD system, it is a way to interact with the software and CAD files with another program. Companies, such as Dassualt; the makers of Solidworks, provide these APIs as a…
Read Scott Tarcy‘s answer to How does one practice advanced surfacing in a 3D CAD such as SolidWorks? on Quora I think it’s easiest to design from something physical that you can measure, or from pictures. If using picture, it makes it easier if you have a photo from the side and the front.…
3D printed watch band I recently used 3D printing to replace my watch band. I was at a friend’s house and apparently his dog loves the taste of rubber. My watch was on a table and before I know it, his dog had eaten one side of the watch band. To fix the watch,…
CADdesignhelp goes on the WTFFF Podcast I’m a big podcast fan (as I am sure those of you getting this know). I recently found a podcast all about 3D printing and I reached out the hosts to see if they would like to have me on and they agreed. The show is the WTFFF podcast. WTFFF?!…
There are many ways. First off, are you in a Mechanical Engineering program in college? If so, there are many groups and activities you can get involved in. I went to Virginia Tech from 2002-2007 and I had options like Formula SAE (http://students.sae.org/cds/form… which is a project to develop a small Formula-style race car. Here…