{"id":33447,"date":"2007-04-14T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T13:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/is_cad_too_hard"},"modified":"2007-04-14T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T13:55:18","slug":"is_cad_too_hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/04\/is_cad_too_hard.html","title":{"rendered":"Is CAD Too Hard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just sat in on the Mechanical Congress at COFES,&nbsp; a <em>slightly<\/em> moderated discussion among CAD company representatives, analysts, and CAD users.&nbsp; This year&#8217;s unofficial theme wasn&#8217;t much different from previous years &#8211; CAD is too hard.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Most of the comments came from engineers or engineering managers whose normal duties don&#8217;t include much CAD work.&nbsp; They noted that is shouldn&#8217;t take a CAD specialist to work with company data.&nbsp; I agree.&nbsp; Look back at the early days of 3D CAD for some examples of how difficult is was &#8211; you really did need highly trained CAD operators.&nbsp; But CAD programs like SolidWorks have made it easier than ever for the occasional user to create, modify, and analyze models.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Lombard recently wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dezignstuff.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/the-democratization-of-3d\/\">Democratization of 3D CAD<\/a>.&nbsp; Matt makes some good points about ease of use, and some of the comments are interesting as well.&nbsp; I was thinking about what Matt wrote while I listened to the discussion, and now it has me wondering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is CAD too hard, or is CAD too easy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just sat in on the Mechanical Congress at COFES,&nbsp; a slightly moderated discussion among CAD company representatives, analysts, and CAD users.&nbsp; This year&#8217;s unofficial theme wasn&#8217;t much different from previous years &#8211; CAD is too hard.&nbsp; Most of the<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/04\/is_cad_too_hard.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}