Mechanical drawings are an excellent way to convey design information, and while sophisticated 3D modeling is slowly taking over, with some companies accepting files over drawings, the mechanical ...

Though vector drawing apps are usually targeted to designers of all stripes, they can be particularly useful to manufacturing and engineering designers. And they can be fun for those designers to use ...

Key points of this articleThe "artistic sense" required for engineers is not the ability to draw beautiful pictures. It is the ability to instantly convey structures, positional relationships, ...

One of the benefits of designing in SOLIDWORKS is the associativity between parts, assemblies and drawings. In the video above, we see how any changes done to a single part will affect your assemblies ...

When a design project is completed, the next immediate task is to communicate the design to much broader audiences, such as peers in different companies, engineers in a manufacturing division, a ...

One of the best firearms museums in the world, the Cody Firearms Museum in Cody, WY, has launched a new book shining a light ...

This collection consists of 8000 reels of 35 mm microfilm engineering drawings of aircraft and engines from the early years through World War II. The microfilm contains engineering drawings, reports, ...

I’m in the planning stages of a side project for Hackaday right now. It’s nothing too impressive, but this is a project that will involve a lot of electromechanical parts. This project is going to ...