by Bill Genc | Sep 20, 2018 | Design, Full Manufacturing Process
I was challenged to demonstrate the entire manufacturing process for a part, from initial project creation all the way through final documentation using the TopSolid 7 platform. So, this series of videos walks you through the completion of that challenge and...
by Bill Genc | Apr 12, 2018 | Design, TopSolid 2017
The words “parametric design” and “love” in the same sentence. Interesting, huh? Well, allow me to tell you how these two words ended up together. I became aware of how much Colin Gilchrist of Gilchrist Consulting Services values TopSolid 7...
by Bill Genc | Feb 8, 2018 | Design, Wood
You have a great product idea – you can see it in your mind’s eye. In the end, your new product will be proudly displayed and will likely even go down in history as industrial design genius. Given that you are an experienced and talented practical machinist, we...
by Bill Genc | Nov 16, 2017 | Design
New within TopSolid 7 is a huge improvement to the selection of faces. This improvement is particularly useful when you are working with faces that are not perfectly tangent to one another making the selection of faces previously very difficult. The video included...
by Bill Genc | Nov 14, 2017 | Design
TopSolid 7 now has a way to control the end condition of a fillet. The new edge constraint mode allows end conditions to happen in a more variable way allowing you to simply select the two edges to be relative to one another and TopSolid does the rest. Watch the...
by Bill Genc | Nov 10, 2017 | Design
TopSolid 7 now allows you to add in and out countersinks to any TopSolid standard drilling. This feature allows you to set both in and out countersinks and potentially related details – perhaps chamfer for example. TopSolid also allows you to manage these...
