When people think of the way new technologies are developed, they often think of the end product that people see on the shelf or showroom. This is true of any product, but it is most prominent in the ...

SolidWorks 3D mechanical-engineering software lets users quickly build solid models with familiar drag-and-drop, pointand-click, and cut-and-paste functions. You can easily create 3D models from ...

Although most of today's contractors have BIM tools that make fabrication possible, many haven't fully adapted their design processes to leverage these capabilities.

Remember when assembly was a predominately manual process? We still have pictures from installations in the 1980s showcasing this method of assembly operations. Lines of manual production systems with ...