This is a post by Emma Rudeck on the Concurrent Engineering Site.

It is only in the last few years that direct modeling has really started to come to the fore. While it has previously only been used in a few functions, many engineers and designers are now turning to a direct modeling approach in some of their work. In this blog post, we’ll out line why this is the case.

HOW IS DIRECT MODELING DIFFERENT TO PARAMETRIC MODELING?

There is a fundamental difference between direct and parametric modeling. While parametric modeling relies on the end geometry of a feature being integrated with all the stages that go into making that feature, this is not the case for direct modeling.

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