3D Modeling: Technical Articles and Resources
How to add feature recognition and direct editing to your 3D application
Spatial Team | 26-03-2026
Why you shouldn't build feature recognition and direct editing from scratch If you're building engineering software — CAD, CAM, simulation, cost estimation, anything that touches 3D geometry — you've ...
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Au Contraire: Only Public Virtual Functions Are Necessary
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
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
This post will discuss two aspects of my favorite programming language, C++:
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4 Tactics to Break "Brian's Law"
Eric Zenk is a Senior Software Engineer in the CGM group at Spatial and will be authoring occasional guest posts.
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Lessons in Scaling
Spatial recently purchased an extreme piece of hardware to investigate the scalability of our multiprocessing ...
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What Does This Line of Code Do?
As all good posts start with a quick to-the-point intro; here goes this one. Can anybody tell me what this line of code ...
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A Really Good Book
Way back in the Dark Ages of the mid-90s, I used to read a newsgroup called comp.lang.c++. You can tell this was the ...
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Leveraging Multi-Core Hardware in Your Application
In previous posts I mentioned the multiprocessing capabilities in CGM and how these differ from multi-threading in ...
