Engineered Design Solutions Announces Latest Technological Development to be Included in Upcoming CadTempo Release 6.0.

Engineered Design Solutions Announces Latest Technological Development to be Included in Upcoming CadTempo Release 6.0.

Patrick Hughes, owner of Engineered Design Solutions said on Monday he is very pleased that his team of advanced time analyticians recently discovered a means of bending the time-space continuum in a way never before thought to be possible, for that matter never before conceived. Hughes described how two years and one week and four days (+/- a few hours and a minute or two) from now the team will contact the late Albert Einstein (a somewhat well regarded theoretical physicist) via a tubular-parallel space tunnel and in a collaborative effort will return on this date to make history as has never been made before. To clarify, Hughes continued, "this has never, ever been done in the history of mankind, that is, we are saying our technology allows us to travel into the future and in the blink of an eye return to the exact original point in time and space (within a precision of a few hours and a couple of minutes...oh and one or two furlongs). We now have the ability to announce history before it is even made - we no longer need to wait for it to happen" This is being forecast to be a great time saver.

Hughes goes on, mumbling a quote from Winston Churchill: "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." It was this quote that inspired us to look into new ways of exploring the past and now allows us to make determinations of the present day which of course is the future of the past. It is truly incredible.

Technical details are sketchy at this moment but the attached rendering (see below) depicts the core instrument that plays an integral part of this discovery. CadTempo 6.0 allows the CAD time analyst to include in its time tracking, a user's childhood engagement with the widely popular Etch a Sketch CAD hardware. This backward look is as far back as we have been able to peer into the history of a CAD user, quipped Hughes, but it provides us with a glimpse of today. It makes no difference if the user's first experience with this CAD training device was 20 years ago or 40 years ago.

Asked why this news is being released at this late hour of the day Hughes responded: Today, April 1st is notoriously known as the day pranksters ply their trade with falsities and foolishness, we decided it was best to allow these events to take place and run their course before our proclamation of these glorious achievements. We felt it was so important to world at large that the gravity of our news had the opportunity to be taken in the light of seriousness and not overshadowed by the tricks.

CadTempo 6 - On The Horizon.

We have some exciting news in the making, we're not quite ready to release details but for now I can say that the upcoming release of CadTempo will be, uh... how shall I say this - I know, more engaging. Yep, that pretty well sums it up. CadTempo 6 is being designed to engage you in analysing your CAD work efforts in new ways that will help drive you and your team to new performance levels.

Here is a visual metaphor just to give you an idea about what's in store:

Along with the release of CadTempo 6, pricing is set to increase. I hope you see this post before the new pricing is in effect because those installations of CadTempo 5 that are purchased prior to the release of 6 will be upgraded at no cost. So visit www.cadtempo.com to download a copy now. You'll have plenty of time to give it a test run.

2D or 3D? How I came to the conclusion 3D is best.

Recently I had an exchange with another machine designer looking to justify a move to 3D. This was my response.

My work is custom machine design. In my case I'm independent so I make my own decisions but this is how I concluded 3D was the only way to go.

In machine design typically you are working with simple shapes: flat plates and bars, or round bars, tubes, etc.

For 2D representation to describe a flat plate at a minimum you need two views, each of which require a rectangle. To construct those rectangles you need two coordinate points for each, and both views need to be properly aligned. If the part is more involved you'll need three views, again each requiring 2 points to describe and also properly aligned. So in many cases you need 6 pick points plus the alignment.

Now, in 3D you can easily describe the plate with two 3D points, then easily construct any view you need. Multiply all of these pick points in 2D by the number of features of the part. If you create 3 orthographic views for a detail you can figure roughly your time could be as much as 1/3 that of 2D drafting.

This is oversimplifying the process and perhaps exaggerating the cost savings, but conceptually you get the idea.

Judging by some videos I've seen for the latest AutoCAD releases the view generation from a 3D model is quite simple. For the record I am still on AutoCAD r14 and use custom AutoLISP routines to accomplish similar results.

Just a quick note to mention CadTempo version 5.2.2 has been released and is now available for download from: http://www.cadtempo.com/

As always I am very interested in hearing your feedback. Thank you all that have supported my efforts.