If you’ve been around SOLIDWORKS modeling for a while you might have heard a passing reference to the BREP. But what is it? This session is going to describe the BREP (Boundary Representation Model) using easy to understand language and examples. Ed Eaton will talk about the 3 face types (analytical, algorithmic, and ruled) in a way that explains all sorts of weird things you’ve been seeing when using SOLIDWORKS. We will explain terms like “topology” and “Boolean” and why that drives some of your successes using surface modeling where modeling exclusively in solids fail. He’s going to show some weird and WILDLY useful exploits made possible by understanding the BREP. This is a fun, VERY important peak under the hood of every model you have ever created that will educate you on how to solve problems and help the future models you make be better.

Ed Eaton is coming to PCBSWUG on December 11th to run through the presentation he will be giving at 3DExperience World in Houston on February 2nd. He has already presented this session at the Western Massachusetts SOLIDWORKS User Group, the New York SOLIDWORKS User Group, and run through it in-person with the SOLIDWORKS developers at Waltham, Massachusetts, to make sure everything is right.

Eaton is a Sr. Industrial Designer with over 30 years of industry experience, with the past 24+ years spent working in a multidisciplinary environment as an active designer, project manager, mentor, and part owner of the DiMonte Group product development consultancy located in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. A user of SOLIDWORKS software since 1998, Eaton has made a point of sharing useful tips and discoveries in popular sessions at over 18 SOLIDWORKS World conferences and at local SOLIDWORKS user groups all around the United States. Eaton's presentations are well known in the user community for exploring then exploiting how SOLIDWORKS thinks to get through tricky problems in product design through non-obvious means.