Back then 3d modeling was more knife and fork work. And you had to do freeform surface modeling. The advancement in tech is unreal.
I remember many many late nights clean IGES files up to be use in for tooling design. Yep the young ones missed out on the fun times.

Yep just got the quote for SolidEdge lic purchase $6000 lic + $1811 sub (not the pay as you go as they normally push) yep be better to upgrade solidworks. I have a Lic seat of Alibre from before they were purchased. It works, they said they will upgrade me to the current version at minimal cost. So ...

SolidEdge seems to be popular if people are not using Solidworks. Fusion 360 and Onshape are web/cloud base that is not good for me. I do not have internet access 60% of the time. Siemens(Solidedge) called me this morning, they will be having a sales rep call me to address my pre-sale questions. I h...

Hello, Is the only way to purchase Solidedge is through a monthly payment program? I am a nomadic designer, do not have internet 24/7/365. I am purchasing a new system, have it local and purchase the yearly maintenance or not. I am looking at Ironcad or Solidedge, migrating from older version of Sol...

Good morning all, You can skip this to TO MY QUESTION SECTION: I am new to this forum but not new to cad. Been using CAD sense 1990 and have used everything, seen the birth and death of many systems. Now I am 53 years old, getting ready to retire and travel as a nomadic handyman/engineer. For the pa...