[MHGinTN]

Having spent untold hours ‘drawing’, I would have to say this new system is no longer drawing, it’s ‘virtualizing’. When you take the X and Y axes and add the Z, that’s vitualizing ... IMHO.

[ArrogantBustard]

SolidWorks (and its competitors) certainly do entail a different mentality from physically drawing on vellum, or virtually drawing in AutoCAD.

SolidWorks is more like running a virtual machine shop. It's a process of building up and then cutting away, until my part is sitting in in virtual space.

You're right; it's an entirely different way of designing.

I'm a huge fan of it.