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September 26, 2011 Mold Design Made Easy with XMD-S & KeyCreator CAD Exciting news for Mold Designers using KeyCreator or CADKEY. The makers of XMD - Expert Mold Designer - have a new package based in solids! It's ... Read More
June 26, 2011 10 reasons why assembly management in Direct Modeling is the BOMb! So you thought Direct Modeling was just for parts? Well, just as you get ultimate flexibility in part modeling and editing from Direct Modeling, you ... Read More
June 03, 2011 Why Manufacturing Should Throw Away their History-Based CAD Modeler History-based modelers: SolidWorks, Inventor, ProE, NX are the wrong CAD tools for manufacturing. Products are rarely designed in CAD with ... Read More
May 31, 2011 3 things Direct CAD is and parametric history-based CAD isn’t Both Direct CAD and parametric history-based CAD systems let you create designs, build 3D models and then create things like BOMs, layouts, and other ... Read More
May 06, 2011 IGES files open faster in KeyCreator than in SolidWorks Everyone in the CAD industry has let their IGEStechnology stagnate over the last 10-15 years. And even though no one has been working on it, it is ... Read More
May 03, 2011 A good day of Direct Modeling is like a good day of Fishing. And we all know a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work. So that leads me to conclude that a day with Direct Modeling can beat the ... Read More
April 22, 2011 Direct Modeling - So What? The debate continues, the blogs flourish, the analysts analyze and fight over the correct terms to use, history-based, parametric, direct, explicit, ... Read More
March 09, 2011 KeyCreator 2011 Direct CAD review by Kenneth Wong So last week, Matt, Chelsea and I were sitting in our conference room in the Boston area on a video conference with Kenneth Wong who was sitting in ... Read More
February 07, 2011 Using the Offset Solid Tool in KeyCreator Blog content provided by One of the most powerful tools in KeyCreator's extraordinary face manipulation menu, Offset Solid instantly modifies an ... Read More
February 04, 2011 Duplicating Features in KeyCreator This blog courtesy of Imagine that you’re working with the manifold part illustrated at the top of the illustration to the right. It could be a model ... Read More

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