Photo: ThisIsEngineering / Pexels A client in Texas messaged me last Tuesday. He had a broken plastic clip from his vintage motorcycle — one of those parts that doesn’t exist anymore. No part number. No manufacturer. Just the broken piece sitting on his workbench. He took six photos with his phone, held a quarter next […]
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Photo by Daniel Smyth / Pexels Last month a client sent me his part as an STL file. He wanted me to make the hole 2mm wider. I had to tell him the bad news: I couldn’t just edit the hole. His entire model was a mesh of triangles. No dimensions. No feature tree. No
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From a rough sketch to a precision SolidWorks model — the MiniCAD process. Photo: Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels You have an idea. Maybe it is a sketch on the back of a napkin, a pencil drawing with rough dimensions, or a photo of an existing part you need to replicate. The question is: how do
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