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Employee Spotlight: How TAMs Guide Customers at Spatial?
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Simplify CAD Models and Improve Performance with Data Prep

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Spatial Team

18-09-2024

Software developers in the manufacturing field are often tasked with implementing expert-level algorithms for 3D ...

7 min read

Quick Guide to Welding Simulation Software | Spatial Corp

Author:

Spatial Team

27-02-2024

Welding, a foundation of the manufacturing and fabrication industry, has evolved and can now utilize the latest ...

7 min read

Tips to Your Elevate CNC Routing Software | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

22-01-2024

CNC routing software is an indispensable tool that gives manufacturers new levels of precision and speed in product ...

6 min read

Robotics and CAD Combined—Building Better Workflows

Author:

Spatial Team

15-01-2024

In the ever-evolving realm of robotics, the fusion of design and functionality is paramount. At the heart of this ...

7 min read

The Role of Sheet Metal Design Software in Next-Gen Manufacturing

Author:

Spatial Team

03-11-2023

Sheet metal, a linchpin in modern manufacturing, has a storied history that traces back to the Industrial Revolution. ...

7 min read

Everything You Need to Know About Painting Robots

Author:

Spatial Team

06-10-2023

In the era of Industry 4.0, robotics has emerged as a transformative force, revolutionizing operations across a ...

6 min read

Automotive Robots: Everything You Need to Know | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

07-09-2023

The automotive industry has been a chief driver of process automation and efficiency in manufacturing. After all, it ...

8 min read

How Robots in Manufacturing Are Engineering the Future

Author:

Spatial Team

05-09-2023

The use of robotics is creating a new era of efficiency and innovation for manufacturers and engineers. Integrating ...

7 min read

Revolutionizing the Skies: The Rise of Aerospace Robotics

Author:

Spatial Team

22-08-2023

The aerospace industry has long been a champion of innovation. From making transcontinental travel easily accessible to ...

7 min read

The Power of Carbon Fiber 3D Printing | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

22-06-2023

3D printing technology has driven amazing advances in additive manufacturing. Product developers, manufacturers, and ...

7 min read

Top Mechanical Design Software for Engineers in 2023| Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

12-06-2023

Mechanical engineering design software has positively revolutionized product design and development processes.

7 min read

What You Should Know About AutoCAD Conversion

Author:

Spatial Team

12-06-2023

Being able to convert design files from one format to another is an absolute necessity for engineers, developers, ...

6 min read

Subtractive Rapid Prototyping: A Beginner's Guide | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

02-06-2023

Rapid prototyping is becoming a go-to product development solution for manufacturers and innovators alike. Subtractive ...

6 min read

Large-Scale 3D Printing: The What, How, and Technology | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

04-04-2023

Over the past decade, 3D printing solutions have advanced at an unprecedented pace, paving the way for innovative ...

6 min read

Medical Additive Manufacturing: The Ultimate Guide

Author:

Spatial Team

04-04-2023

Additive manufacturing has revolutionized the way industries do business, and healthcare is certainly no exception. ...

6 min read

What is Additive Manufacturing? (Types, Materials, and What to Know) | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

27-02-2023

Additive manufacturing is taking industries by storm, providing highly flexible manufacturing services. (Even the U.S. ...

6 min read

The 6 Core Advantages of Additive Manufacturing (and Its Categories) | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

27-02-2023

Since the advent of mechanization in the 18th century, manufacturing hasn’t changed all that much. Sure—machines have ...

4 min read

Brief Guide to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Author:

Spatial Team

10-01-2023

For much of its history, enterprise software development was driven by companies willing to modernize their old ways of ...

7 min read

STEP to STL: How to Convert STEP Files to STL | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

27-12-2022

If you’re working with 3D model design and printing, you’ve likely encountered confusion with two common file ...

5 min read

How to Create a 3D PDF from AutoCAD | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

27-12-2022

If you’ve ever been confused by how to make a 3D PDF from CAD, this guide will walk you through the basic steps to ...

6 min read

Creating 3D Modeling Software for the Cloud | Spatial

Author:

Spatial Team

27-12-2022

3D modeling is seeing a major shift toward cloud computing, and developers are rushing to bring new products to the ...

7 min read

Ultimate Guide to Hybrid Manufacturing (and Importance of CAD Data)

Author:

Spatial Team

05-10-2022

Hybrid manufacturing is revolutionizing both manufacturing and product design—thanks to the rapid evolution of ...

6 min read

Fast, Efficient, Stunning 3D Visualization

Author:

Spatial Team

04-10-2022

With 3D visualization, you can bring products, characters, and buildings to life for engineers, artists, and designers. ...

5 min read

What Is Digital Manufacturing (and its Benefits)

Author:

Spatial Team

15-07-2022

What is digital manufacturing? Here’s a simple digital manufacturing definition: the process of using computer systems ...

5 min read

Digital Twins and BIM: Innovation, Intersection, and Interaction

Author:

Spatial Team

01-07-2022

BIM has been an indispensable tool for improving the collaboration, design, and planning of large-scale projects. But ...

8 min read

How Digital Twins Are Transforming Manufacturing

Author:

Spatial Team

01-07-2022

Table of Contents A World Still Driven by Traditional Manufacturing What Is a Digital Twin? How Digital Twins Work ...

7 min read

Short Guide to Rapid Application Development (RAD) vs. Agile

Author:

Spatial Team

16-06-2022

Rapid Application Development vs. Agile Methodologies? You’re asking the wrong question… There are two main approaches ...

7 min read

How to Optimize the Meshing Process for CFD and FEA

Author:

Spatial Team

26-05-2022

In this article, we discuss meshing and its use in both Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis ...

5 min read

Manual vs. Auto Meshing: What's the Difference?

Author:

Spatial Team

21-04-2022

The debate between manual meshing and auto meshing is nothing new. For a long time, the general consensus has been that ...

6 min read

Why Should Robot Manufacturers Build Their Own Software?

Author:

Spatial Team

18-01-2022

The robotics industry is growing at an incredible pace, and the future applications for robots continue to be ...

8 min read

The Importance of Interoperability in 3D Software Applications

Author:

Spatial Team

04-01-2022

When following a required workflow in a software application, few things are more frustrating to the user than ...

5 min read

7 Types of Robotics Software to Improve Design & Function

Author:

Spatial Team

21-12-2021

Building robots is challenging. The robotics industry (industrial and consumer) is filled with tales of companies that ...

6 min read

Difference Between Robotics and Automation (and Why it Matters).

Author:

Spatial Team

07-12-2021

Automation and robots are two distinct technologies, but the terms are often used interchangeably. Together, they have ...

5 min read

Additive vs. Subtractive Manufacturing | Simple Definition

Author:

Spatial Team

25-11-2021

Technological advances have revolutionized speed and affordability to make on-demand manufacturing accessible for ...

5 min read

How to Improve Automation and Robotics Engineering

Author:

Spatial Team

11-11-2021

Robotics, pioneered in the 1960s, combines mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science to ...

5 min read

Guide to Additive Manufacturing Technologies

Author:

Spatial Team

21-10-2021

Additive manufacturing technologies allow companies to access affordable, on-demand products. These technologies are ...

5 min read

How to Fully Leverage CAD in the Additive Manufacturing Process

Author:

ADMIN

02-09-2021

The main phases involved in additive manufacturing are that of design and the manufacturing process. Practically, the ...

5 min read

How 3D Components Impact Software UX

Author:

Spatial Team

13-07-2021

Software components are like the stage crew at a big concert performance: the audience doesn’t see them, but their ...

5 min read

6 Ways Additive Manufacturing is Used in Aerospace

Author:

Spatial Team

25-05-2021

Manufacturing is a challenge in the aerospace industry. Not only are aerospace parts extraordinarily complex, but they ...

6 min read

7 Types of Additive Manufacturing

Author:

Spatial Team

11-05-2021

In the past, manufacturing businesses used subtractive processes like molds, cutting, and drilling to create products. ...

4 min read

A Quick Guide to Metal Additive Manufacturing

Author:

Spatial Team

04-05-2021

Additive manufacturing (3D Printing) is sweeping across the industrial automation world.

6 min read

Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing Explained

Author:

Spatial Team

27-04-2021

Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing (UAM), also known as Ultrasonic Consolidation (UC), is an additive manufacturing (AM) ...

4 min read

How to Reduce Development Time and Maximize Revenue During Application Lifecycle Management

Author:

Spatial Team

14-04-2021

When you hear the term, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), you likely think about the process that a software ...

8 min read

Understanding the Uses, Challenges, and Future of Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Software

Author:

Spatial Team

15-03-2021

What is Computer Aided Manufacturing The CAM Market Who Uses CAM Software? Trends in CAM What do CAM Software ...

9 min read

The Process of SLS in Additive Manufacturing

Author:

Spatial Team

02-02-2021

SLS in Additive Manufacturing is used to convert 3D CAD designs into physical parts, in a matter of hours.

6 min read

Applications of 3D Printing in the Medical Field

Author:

Spatial Team

19-08-2020

In the past, 3D printing was used mainly by major manufacturers that could afford expensive printers and materials. ...

4 min read

6 3D Printing Medical Breakthroughs

Author:

Spatial Team

10-08-2020

Modern 3D printing medical advances offer real, practical medical solutions that include living tissue production, ...

8 min read

3D Printing for Additive Manufacturing - What You Need to Know

Author:

Spatial Team

13-07-2020

There’s a lot of confusion around what the terms additive manufacturing and 3D printing mean.

4 min read

The Additive Manufacturing Process

Author:

Spatial Team

06-07-2020

Additive manufacturing, often referred to as 3D printing, is a computer-controlled process for creating 3D objects.

7 min read

Industrial Automation in 2020: From Mechanization to Automation

Author:

Spatial Team

06-04-2020

Table of Contents Why industrial automation is important Advantages and Disadvantages of Industrial Automation The ...

5 min read

What is Springback Compensation?

Author:

Spatial Team

25-03-2020

Take a fresh, new sheet of paper, and fold it in half, like you’re making a paper airplane. Place the folded paper on ...

6 min read

What is Simulation Modeling (And How Does it Work)?

Author:

Spatial Team

25-03-2020

Table of Contents Simulation in CAD Who Uses Simulation Modeling? Key Benefits of Simulation Modeling Challenges in ...

8 min read

An Introduction to Finite Element Modeling

Author:

Spatial Team

05-02-2020

What do you do? What Exactly is FEM? What You Need to Know About Choosing a FEM Modeler FEM and Partial Differential ...

5 min read

3 Core Components of CFD Analysis

Author:

Spatial Team

04-02-2020

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a type of analysis that provides insight into solving complex problems, and ...

2 min read

What is a WRL File?

Author:

Spatial Team

15-01-2020

WRL files are an extension of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) format . VRML file types enable browser ...

3 min read

The Main Benefits and Disadvantages of Voxel Modeling

Author:

Spatial Team

18-12-2019

Voxels are to 3D what pixels are to 2D. Firstly -- let’s examine what pixels actually are. Everything you see on your ...

2 min read

The Main Benefits and Disadvantages of Point-Cloud Modeling

Author:

Spatial Team

17-12-2019

Point-cloud modeling is typically used in the process of 3D scanning objects. Rather than defining surfaces through ...

2 min read

The Main Benefits and Disadvantages of Polygonal Modeling

Author:

Spatial Team

17-12-2019

Polygonal (or polyhedral) modeling is the most common type of modeling for video games and animation studios. This type ...

9 min read

13 Key Applications of CFD Simulation and Modeling

Author:

Spatial Team

09-12-2019

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a science that uses data structures to solve issues of fluid flow -- like ...

2 min read

The Main Benefits and Disadvantages of BRep Modeling

Author:

Spatial Team

06-12-2019

BRep modeling, or Boundary Representation modeling, is, in CAD applications, the most common type of modeling. BRep is ...

5 min read

What is FEA (Finite Element Analysis) in CAD?

Author:

Spatial Team

22-11-2019

IN THIS ARTICLE: What is FEA (Finite Element Analysis) Principles of Finite Element Analysis and Simulation Software A ...

4 min read

FDM vs SLA: Which 3D Printer Type Should You Use?

Author:

Spatial Team

08-10-2019

In the 3D printing and additive manufacturing space, the two leading 3D printing technologies are Fused Deposition ...

3 min read

Managing Data for Today’s Additive Manufacturing Workflow

Author:

Spatial Team

02-10-2019

As manufacturers begin to rely more and more on additive manufacturing (AM), moving from a few select piece parts that ...

4 min read

Key 3D Printer Programming Requirements

Author:

Spatial Team

30-09-2019

(Stratasys V650 Flex. Source: Javelin-Tech) 3D printing has emerged as a popular 3D model fabrication option. Be it ...

4 min read

Understanding the Components of a CAD System

Author:

Spatial Team

20-09-2019

Effective computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programs include the following main ...

2 min read

VoxelDance Makes Additive Manufacturing Data Do the Samba

Author:

Spatial Team

19-09-2019

To the uninitiated, 3D printing may seem a simple process — download your CAD file and hit print. But the world of ...

4 min read

Why Your BIM Software Needs to Support Mechanical Systems

Author:

ADMIN

09-05-2019

It’s rare to find a building without at least a few mechanical systems. In fact, some mechanical systems -- such as ...

4 min read

How to Beat the Competition to Market for Your BIM Software

Author:

ADMIN

24-04-2019

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Most Common Usability Issues in BIM Software

Author:

ADMIN

23-04-2019

From being a best practice in the AEC space to a growing number of governments mandating it, Building Information ...

3 min read

Looking Forward to the Future of BIM Technology

Author:

ADMIN

22-04-2019

In its report, Global BIM Market: Size, Trends, and Forecasts (2016-2020), Daedal Research stated that the global ...

3 min read

How 3D ACIS Modeler Improves the Quality of Translated 3D Data

Author:

ADMIN

08-04-2019

After the model is translated, users have the option of employing a healing workflow to further improve the quality of ...

3 min read

3 Functionalities Required to Translate 3D CAD Data

Author:

ADMIN

05-04-2019

Though required in many workflows, translating files is not a simple task. Below are three essential functionalities ...

3 min read

Why 3D Data Translation is Essential for Supporting Today’s Engineering Workflows

Author:

ADMIN

02-04-2019

The increased use of mobile devices in engineering processes has the interesting side effect of requiring engineering ...

2 min read

The Construction Industry’s Transformation to Manufacturing Workflows and BIM

Author:

Brian Rohde

07-03-2019

The construction industry has long taken advantage of prebuilt components, from prehung doors to prefabbed roof ...

4 min read

BIM File Formats You Need to Make an Interoperable BIM File Viewer

Author:

Brian Rohde

06-03-2019

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of using 3D models for planning, managing and implementing ...

4 min read

The Biggest Construction Issues Your BIM Software Should Solve

Author:

Brian Rohde

28-02-2019

Today, the construction industry requires the input of many different companies, each fulfilling a specific, but ...

4 min read

Take Your Software to the Next Level by Supporting BIM Interoperability through Spatial SDKs

Author:

Brian Rohde

26-02-2019

In today’s construction efforts, the collaboration between different companies (e.g., architecture and engineering ...

4 min read

Understanding Why Your BIM Software Is Being Dropped After the Design Stage

Author:

Brian Rohde

25-02-2019

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of using 3D modeling in the construction and maintenance of ...

4 min read

What are BIM Dimensions and How It Can Support Your Production Cycle

Author:

Brian Rohde

21-02-2019

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a process that involves the use of 3D modeling to plan, design, construct and ...

3 min read

Spatial BIM Suite — Enabling the Digital Twin

Author:

Brian Rohde

20-02-2019

Digital twins are changing the way the construction industry manages large building projects and infrastructure ...

3 min read

How Software is Critical to Making Use of 3D Scan Point Cloud Data in BIM

Author:

Brian Rohde

15-02-2019

3D scanning in BIM (Building Information Modeling) is done using a 3D laser scanning machine.

6 min read

3D Data Translation in 3D Modeling

Author:

Brian Rohde

14-01-2019

The increased use of mobile devices in engineering processes has the interesting side effect of requiring the ...

5 min read

3 Essential BIM Capabilities That Benefit AEC Companies

Author:

Brian Rohde

07-01-2019

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a process through which architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) ...

5 min read

How Your BIM Software Must Comply with Regulatory BIM Guidelines

Author:

Brian Rohde

03-01-2019

Building Information Modeling (BIM) adoption in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) is certainly growing, ...

8 min read

Top 5 Ways Additive Manufacturing OEMs Can Decrease Costs

Author:

ADMIN

20-12-2018

It is a competitive world out there, and additive manufacturing (AM) OEMs face pressures like all manufacturers do when ...

4 min read

Clashing Geometry in BIM Datasets

Author:

David Hornsby

26-11-2018

A major benefit of constructing a building virtually is the cost savings gained by identifying errors in the design ...

3 min read

Vertex Systems — 30 Years of BIM Innovation

Author:

Brian Rohde

15-11-2018

We often focus the success of new partners, showcasing how Spatial helped with bringing a new product to market. But ...

4 min read

Features of the Most Effective APIs for 3D Visualization in Manufacturing

Author:

ADMIN

25-10-2018

3D visualization is the process of using 3D visuals to analyze designs or scenarios.

3 min read

How 3D Visualization Can Help Eliminate Errors in the Manufacturing Process

Author:

ADMIN

19-10-2018

We all understand that 3D visualization is a vital means to reduce errors and guarantee quality before the part or ...

4 min read

Leverage 3D Visualization to Improve Your Manufacturing Processes

Author:

ADMIN

10-10-2018

3D visualization -- interchangeably used with 3D modeling, 3D graphics, 3D rendering and computer-generated imaging ...

5 min read

The Importance of CAD Files in Manufacturing

Author:

ADMIN

10-08-2018

3D computer-aided design (CAD) files are integral to today’s manufacturing processes. On the surface, the idea is ...

5 min read

7 Common Manufacturing Problems Caused By File Translation Errors

Author:

ADMIN

10-08-2018

Manufacturers rely on 3D computer-aided design (CAD) files provided to them by design and engineering teams. This could ...

4 min read

How Poor 3D Data Translation Can Derail Project Timelines and Costs

Author:

ADMIN

10-08-2018

To manufacture a design, the engineering or design team must send its computer-aided design (CAD) files to the ...

4 min read

How The Best 3D InterOp Helps Reduce CAD File Errors in the Manufacturing Process

Author:

ADMIN

09-08-2018

Due to different workflows, it is not uncommon to find companies collaborating with one another (e.g. a ...

4 min read

Why Does Anyone Need Polyhedral Formats?

Author:

ADMIN

06-07-2018

Following the design and analysis phase, computer aided design (CAD) files are usually converted into polyhedra file ...

5 min read

What are SLDPRT & SLDASM files and How are They Used in Additive Manufacturing?

Author:

ADMIN

05-07-2018

Since launching in 1995, SolidWorks has emerged as a widely adopted computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided ...

5 min read

Why Your Apps Should Move to Support SLDPRT

Author:

ADMIN

29-06-2018

Since its introduction in the 1980s, IGES (short for “Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) was the main computer ...

5 min read

How to Fully Leverage CAD in the Additive Manufacturing Process

Author:

ADMIN

28-06-2018

The main phases involved in additive manufacturing are that of design and the manufacturing process. Practically, the ...

5 min read

Innovative Uses of Additive Manufacturing

Author:

ADMIN

19-06-2018

The use of additive manufacturing software components is growing in high-tech industries. According to the market ...

3 min read

Additive Manufacturing Technology and How SDKs Can Help

Author:

ADMIN

14-06-2018

In our interview with Spatial’s Director of Product Management, Ray Bagley, we discuss how 3D printing and additive ...

4 min read

Subtractive vs. Additive Manufacturing

Author:

ADMIN

12-06-2018

With additive manufacturing - such as 3D printing - growing in adoption, especially in high-tech industries such as ...

3 min read

STL File Problems: Common Problems Identified in the STL File Healing Process

Author:

ADMIN

22-02-2018

When coming from a standard format, very often that data has to be repaired or improved, and Spatial does that as part ...

4 min read

3D InterOp's Persistent Naming Translation

Author:

ADMIN

19-02-2018

Let's examine the benefits of using 3D InterOp's Persistent Naming Translation feature in your application to import ...

3 min read

Generating Simulation Data from BIM Datasets

Author:

David Hornsby

06-02-2018

One of the important uses of 3D models in the building information modeling (BIM) process is as inputs to analysis. ...

3 min read

Design and Manufacture Move Closer Together

Author:

Linda Lokay

18-10-2017

There is a new wave of innovative processes and solutions that improve product production throughput, and enable ...

2 min read

Spending 3D Software Development Resources Wisely

Author:

Debra Larkin

24-08-2017

In the 3D modeling space, application developers face a number of challenges — getting to market on time, delivering ...

2 min read

Rounding Dimension Values from 3D InterOp

Author:

David Hornsby

16-08-2017

Recently I was asked a question about one of the standard test files generated by NIST (National Institute for ...

4 min read

Release 2018 1.0 of Spatial's 3D Software Development Toolkits is Out!

Author:

ADMIN

03-08-2017

It has already been a year since release 2017 1.0, which saw the introduction of a number of innovative features aimed ...

3 min read

The Complexities of Additive Manufacturing in the Real World

Author:

ADMIN

20-06-2017

Every new technology goes through a honeymoon phase, where new technology X can now do Y and obsoletes all previous ...

3 min read

Advanced 3D Modeling Unites a Multi-disciplinary Approach to Harbor Design

Author:

ADMIN

07-06-2017

Modern port design is a complex, multi-disciplinary exercise that deals with all aspects of a project, from the ...

3 min read

Overlap Between 3D Modeling Visualization and Gaming

Author:

ADMIN

25-05-2017

It may be surprising to some that given the different target markets, there is an overlap between 3D visualization for ...

4 min read

Leveraging 3D Software Development Toolkits as Buildings Move into the Digital Age

Author:

ADMIN

17-05-2017

Building information modeling refers to a digital knowledge base describing physical and functional aspects of ...

3 min read

Hybrid Additive Subtractive Manufacturing and Production

Author:

ADMIN

08-05-2017

Much has been written about the promise of additive manufacturing, and how soon everything will be 3D printed on ...

3 min read

Boolean 3D Modeling: What to do when your Boolean Operations Fail

Author:

ADMIN

12-04-2017

boolean operation Boolean operations on individual bodies are common functions in 3D modeling. While simple in concept, ...

3 min read

Improving CAD to Solver Process with 3D Precise Mesh | Spatial

Author:

ADMIN

16-03-2017

In much the same way as physical design has moved from paper 2D drawings to 3D models in software, so has analysis. ...

3 min read

Healing, not just for Precise 3D Models Anymore

Author:

ADMIN

20-12-2016

In a recent blog post (Healing and Preserving 3D Model Intent) and eBook (Healing as an Essential Function), we wrote ...

3 min read

CGM Core Modeler Enhances Feature Recognition

Author:

ADMIN

07-12-2016

The 2017 1.1 release of Spatial’s CGM™ Core Modeler improves the robustness of its feature recognition capabilities by ...

2 min read

Day Two Wraps up the Insiders’ Summit

Author:

ADMIN

29-09-2016

The second and final day of the 3D Insiders’ Summit 2016 was as action-packed as the first. To recap, the Insiders’ ...

2 min read

Insider’s off to a Good Start on Day One

Author:

ADMIN

28-09-2016

Today was day one of Spatial Corp.’s 3D Insiders’ Summit 2016, an educational event that focuses on technical topics ...

4 min read

Healing and Preserving 3D Model Intent

Author:

ADMIN

24-08-2016

Part and parcel with model-based engineering is model translation. Because the model is now the specification, accurate ...

3 min read

Spatial Enables Industry Innovation with Release 2017 1.0

Author:

ADMIN

28-07-2016

In case you missed the news this week, we announced the availability of Release 2017 1.0 for Spatial software ...

3 min read

Emergence of STEP AP 242

Author:

ADMIN

14-07-2016

In a past blog, The Impact of Model-Based Definition (MBD) on 3D Modeling and Manufacturing, we discussed the growing ...

4 min read

The Impact of 3D Modeling on Airway Splints and Stents

Author:

ADMIN

14-06-2016

We have written about the growing role of 3D modeling and printing in medical applications before, and its impact on ...

2 min read

3D Modeling at Augmented World Expo 2016

Author:

ADMIN

10-06-2016

Augmented World Expo 2016

2 min read

Rapid 2016 – 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Event

Author:

ADMIN

01-06-2016

On May 15-19, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers held their annual RAPID event — the longest-running, additive ...

4 min read

When 3D Software Development Toolkits Make Sense

Author:

ADMIN

23-05-2016

Make or buy is an age old question for anyone building products, whether hardware or software. For example, for a ...

3 min read

Whither 3D Modeling

Author:

ADMIN

11-05-2016

The term disruptive technology is often overused (and typically just marketing hype), but there are some technologies ...

4 min read

Seven Years of Thread Safe 3D ACIS Modeler

Author:

ADMIN

27-04-2016

We are moving things around in the office here at Spatial to accommodate some new people. As a result, our marketing ...

3 min read

Innovative 3D Uses for AEC/BIM and supporting Advanced Workflows for Additive Manufacturing — Take-Aways from COE 2016

Author:

ADMIN

20-04-2016

The COE 2016 Annual PLM Experience and TechniFair was held last week in San Antonio. This was my first year attending ...

3 min read

3D Modeling: Enabling the Revolution in Biomechatronics

Author:

ADMIN

13-04-2016

The marrying of electronics, mechanics and bionics, or biomechatronics, can conjure up images of Iron Man, flying ...

3 min read

3D Modeling and the Zen of Antenna Design

Author:

ADMIN

04-04-2016

We have all heard about the digital revolution, and how analog technology is old school, something handled by old guys ...

2 min read

Premier 2016 3D Modeling Event

Author:

ADMIN

23-03-2016

This week we released the details for the 3D Insiders’ Summit 2016 and opened registration for the September 28th to ...

4 min read

Geometry for Bevel Cuts using Water Jet & Laser Cutters

Author:

ADMIN

17-03-2016

As water jet and laser cutters become more sophisticated, the geometries that they are able to cut are also increasing ...

2 min read

Polyhedral Modeling and 3D Printing

Author:

ADMIN

08-03-2016

There is often the high-level assumption with additive manufacturing (aka, 3D printing) that once you have the data ...

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One-Way Associativity for 3D CAD Analysis Applications

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ADMIN

02-03-2016

Analysis applications often use solid models generated by CAD systems as their input; for example, the structural ...

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3D Printing Enables the 4th Industrial Revolution | Spatial Blog

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ADMIN

26-02-2016

The term disruptive technology is overused and often can’t be justified. But in the case of additive manufacturing, it ...

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The Impact of Model-Based Definition on 3D Modeling & Manufacturing

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ADMIN

19-02-2016

The beginning of the year is a time for planning, both in our personal lives, as well as professional. It is no ...

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Solving Complex 3D Software Development Problems with 2016 1.0

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ADMIN

12-09-2015

A significant challenge of our work is to solve complex problems for the many changes happening in our industry today. ...

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3D Cloud & Mobile Solutions: Today’s Manufacturing Workflow – The Need for Speed

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ADMIN

25-08-2015

Today's Manufacturing Workflow -- The Need for Speed by Guest blogger Chris Skubic, Machine Research

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Recipe for Success - Selling 3D Software Development Toolkits

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ADMIN

07-08-2015

Customers First! That is a key mantra that has guided me personally and many companies who are working hard to delight ...

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Are Your 3D Models Mobile and On the Cloud?

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ADMIN

02-07-2015

As a child, I marveled at antiquity through my great grandmother’s many stories of life in the old west. Born in the ...

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Outcome Checking, Logging and Progress Reporting in 3D ACIS

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ADMIN

25-06-2015

This article shares a simple architecture which can be used to capture meta-data about the use of ACIS APIs in your ...

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3D InterOp TranslationDriver for Multi-Threaded and GUI Applications

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ADMIN

15-06-2015

Spatial's 3D InterOp requires that all translations be done on the same thread that creates the SPAISystemInitGuard. ...

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Healing Gaps in CGM

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ADMIN

15-05-2015

As we live in a less than perfect world, 3D CAD models are far from perfect. Particularly, models often times contain ...

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Rendering Graphical Data from 3D InterOp with HOOPS Visualize

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ADMIN

12-05-2015

Recently I was asked by a customer how to render a 3D visualization model translated from a CAD file by Graphical 3D ...

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Qt Tools for 3D Software Development Kits

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ADMIN

04-05-2015

Qt Tools for 3D Software Development Kits When software developers opt for tools that are cross platform, they often ...

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Create an Ellipsoid in 3D ACIS

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ADMIN

28-04-2015

How To Create an Ellipsoid using 3D ACIS The 3D analytics supported directly in 3D ACIS include: sphere, block, ...

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A view of SolidWorks World 2015. Additive Manufacturing - Bridging the Gap Between Precise Models and Non-Precise Data

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ADMIN

10-02-2015

We are just starting the 3rd day of 2015 SolidWorks World. The first two days have been very well attended and with a ...

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The Powerful Combo of Water and 3D

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ADMIN

10-06-2014

For those of you not familiar with waterjet machining, this is an industrial tool that is capable of cutting a variety ...

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Sample - How To Post

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05-05-2014

INTRODUCTION: Your “how to” blog post should teach the reader how to do something by breaking it down into a series of ...

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Interactive 3D: How Do We Get There?

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ADMIN

10-09-2013

Basically, there are two priorities when using a software component, particularly a 3D modeling kernel: Does it do what ...

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Does Lisp Influence Your C++?

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ADMIN

26-07-2013

The idea for this post started on Aug 11, 2011, when I read Gregg’s post about choosing a scripting language for ...

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Highlights of the R24 Release of 3D InterOp

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ADMIN

17-07-2013

The R24 release of 3D InterOp is now available for download. Although they are available online, not everyone pours ...

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The Top 5 Essential Functions of 3D ACIS Modeler

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ADMIN

08-05-2013

A geometry kernel is a big thing. It’s a huge thing. Maybe even big enough to see from space. By most accounts, even ...

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Top 5 Things You Should Know When Considering Data Translation

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ADMIN

02-04-2013

1. Don't Reinvent the Wheel You're designing a new product, but you have an old part that's almost right for the job. ...

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What You Don't Know You Don't Know

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ADMIN

20-03-2013

Debugging problems is really easy once you "have them under glass". Get all the input data, get all the code, build it ...

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3D InterOp in a Multi-Core World: Part 1

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ADMIN

13-03-2013

Try to buy a single-core laptop today and you’ll have a difficult time even finding one. The leading computer ...

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Fiction Inspiring Tomorrow?

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ADMIN

28-02-2013

It always struck me that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (ok, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) described some aspects of ...

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The Trouble with Namespaces

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ADMIN

22-02-2013

Today, I’m going to talk about the way my attitude towards using namespaces has pretty much done a complete reversal ...

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Ways to Optimize your Development

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ADMIN

25-01-2013

This blog post describes some ideas I have about writing better code. When one says “optimize” the first question I ...

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3D Modeling in Popular Culture

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ADMIN

14-01-2013

Did anyone else notice in Prometheus (recent movie), that when they landed on the planet of the crazy space men, the ...

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Creating a Better Documentation Experience

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ADMIN

07-12-2012

The Spatial Product Documentation at doc.spatial.com is quite extensive...ok, let's just say it..."HUGE".

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It’s Easier Using 3D Solids

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ADMIN

27-11-2012

In my last post I constructed a thin walled 3D body of a teapot from surface data using surfacing operations. Whilst ...

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Making 3D Solids from Surface Data

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ADMIN

19-11-2012

Recently I was looking at some surfacing operations and I thought it would make an interesting case study to complete ...

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Application Driven Documentation

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ADMIN

16-11-2012

In this post I’m going to talk about how we use C3D Toolkit to generate 'live' sample code snippets for our CGM ...

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Putting Intel’s HTT to the Test

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ADMIN

30-10-2012

My comrades and I did a performance analysis of Intel’s Hyper Threading Technology (HTT), using thread-safe ACIS and ...

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Spatial Community Invests in the Greater Community

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ADMIN

27-09-2012

This week at Spatial's 3D Insiders' Summit we gave custom poker chips to attendees. We asked that everyone place their ...

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A Leap of Faith

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ADMIN

27-08-2012

In earlier posts I’ve written a lot about the various approaches to multiprocessing and the potential benefits. What I ...

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Scripting: It’s Not Just for Browser Apps

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ADMIN

20-08-2012

In my last post I mentioned C3D Toolkit, our JavaScript-based demo application, and said I’d discuss it more in another ...

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3D ACIS Modeler R23: What We’ve Done For You Lately

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ADMIN

06-08-2012

The challenges of a major software release are not unique to Spatial. And like other organizations, the launch process ...

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Special Invitation

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ADMIN

26-07-2012

3D Insiders' Summit, September 25-26, 2012, Black Hawk, Colorado

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Rethinking File Conversion

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ADMIN

06-07-2012

As I was sitting here trying to come up with a topic for this post, I was thinking that while I have a million things ...

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Why You Should Join Us at the 3D Insiders' Summit

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ADMIN

28-06-2012

3D Insiders' Summit 2012 on Prezi

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Double, Double, Trouble

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ADMIN

19-06-2012

While procrastinating (avoiding writing this blog entry for as long as possible), I debugged an interesting problem. ...

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Subtleties of B-rep Translation (Part 3); Why Healing Matters

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ADMIN

15-06-2012

I’ve written my last two blogs about different pitfalls and insight needed in order to properly translate CAD data. ...

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Application-Driven Development in Action

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ADMIN

05-06-2012

Today, I’m going to discuss how we’ve been using Application Driven Development (AppDD) principles in our work on CGM.

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Getting the Point about Points

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ADMIN

24-05-2012

Two weeks ago, Spatial hosted a booth at the CONTROL Exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany. I hate to follow John's recent ...

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What's Up With the GPU?

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ADMIN

17-05-2012

In my previous post I discussed the various multiprocessing technologies at my disposal. These are: OpenMP, MPI, PPL ...

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A Developer’s Perspective on Agile

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ADMIN

09-05-2012

Gregg and Stefanie have described some management perspective on Agile programming. As a participant in several of the ...

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Subtleties of B-rep Translation (Part 2); Why Form Matters

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ADMIN

04-05-2012

'Form' in mathematics manifests itself in all manners of perspective and discussion. From your earliest mathematics ...

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Scanning But Were Afraid To Ask

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ADMIN

27-04-2012

For this post, I thought I would talk about SPAR 2012, which I attended in Houston last week.

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How to Train Eight People Without a Trainer

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ADMIN

17-04-2012

John's recent post on documentation and behavior driven development reminded me of an interesting experience I had last ...

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Subtleties of B-rep Translation (Part 1); Why Sharing Matters

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ADMIN

05-04-2012

In my last post, I introduced our idea of B-rep Health and the notion of "legal" but bad B-rep modeling data. ...

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Beyond TDD

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ADMIN

30-03-2012

Today, I’ll be diving into alphabet soup of TLA’s. For this I apologize in advance – those TDD guys started it!! First ...

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A Guilty Secret

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ADMIN

22-03-2012

Ok. I admit it. I sometimes use text based debugging. It’s ugly and when there is a better way, I jump to the ...

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Can Long Distance Relationships Really Work?

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ADMIN

19-03-2012

Last August, I made a huge change in my life - I decided to forego a stable, mature relationship and go long-distance. ...

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How Healthy is Your B-rep?

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ADMIN

08-03-2012

We’ve known for a long time that the integrity of B-rep data plays a major role in the success of downstream modeling ...

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Managing the 16,777,217th Color

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ADMIN

01-03-2012

Here’s a quick poll: How many of you have figured out by now that 16,777,217 = 2^24+1, and that the "24" refers to the ...

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A Real Life 3D Experience

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ADMIN

23-02-2012

Contributed by Linda Lokay, VP Marketing and Business Development

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Meditations on the Meaning of . . . PMI?

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ADMIN

09-02-2012

I recently found a really interesting technical article describing the difference between semantic and visual PMI.

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Happy 25th Birthday Spatial!

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ADMIN

01-02-2012

Contributed by Paul Cardosi, CFO, Spatial

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When Is a Point Not Necessarily a Point?

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ADMIN

27-01-2012

Answer: when it’s a 'HappyPathPoint'.

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Thoughts on Agile - Epilogue

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ADMIN

20-01-2012

To finish up this series of posts; what Gregg's post described happened a few years ago. Since that first team room, ...

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Thoughts on Agile: What happens to six developers locked in a room together for six weeks? (Part II)

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ADMIN

13-01-2012

So Stefanie's right; but a slight introduction before the criteria. We were floundering big time with Agile. Our ...

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Thoughts on Agile; What happens to six developers locked in a room together for six weeks? (Part I)

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ADMIN

12-01-2012

New Year, time for some resolutions that I'm surely not going to keep. One for work - I really need to make a bigger ...

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Ignorance is Strength?

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ADMIN

01-12-2011

Ramblings about the benefits and perils of polymorphism.

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Finding Prime Numbers

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ADMIN

07-11-2011

I’m generally disappointed when I come across source code examples for multiprocessing technologies that use trivial ...

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Au Contraire: Only Public Virtual Functions Are Necessary

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ADMIN

27-10-2011

I am writing this blog post largely in response to John’s blog post: Public Virtual Methods: A Bad Idea. John and I ...

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Take Care in What You (Let Your Customers) Ask For

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ADMIN

05-10-2011

How do you design an interface that returns the result of some calculation when 99% of the time the result is simple ...

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Your Smallest Code Change Could be the Most Dangerous

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ADMIN

27-09-2011

This post will discuss two aspects of my favorite programming language, C++:

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