Contents
Introduction: The Digital Revolution Gets Physical
Chapter 1: Gearheads Get No Respect
Chapter 2: Since the Potter’s Wheel, the Most Important Tool in History
CAD History from the Cavemen in a Nutshell
I Looked up at the Cloud . . . and Saw the Ball Heading Straight at Me
Chapter 3: A Million Engineers on the March
We Set Out to Stop Reinventing the Wheel . . . and Ended up with Something Unexpected
Four Flywheels Driving Open Engineering
Bottom Line: This Revolution Is Bottom Up
Chapter 4: New Culture, New Tools Converge in the Cloud
All Heads Converge in the Cloud
Wrapping Heads around a New Business Model
Who’s Taking the GrabCAD Challenge?
Sketching out a New Model for Design: Key Word Is “Collaboration”
If Big, Start by Opening Inward
Start-Ups: You and Whose Army?
It May Look Good on Paper . . .
Chapter 6: Here’s My Prototype; Please Kick the Crap Out of It
. . . But We Still Need to Get Physical
Offshoring: Amazingly Enough, It Works . . . So Far
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