
Likewise, when the engineer included a M10 screw in their design, the correct drillings and taping information was automatically applied.) In the early-2000’s, a MBO (Management Buy Out) occurred taking the manufacturing empire the Missler brothers had built merging all company entities into Missler software to push the vision of TopSolid to the next level. (When an engineer described a M10 tapped hole in their design, the CAM software knew how to machine the hole. At first, it was merely 2D CAD/CAM software with some smarts. In the early 90’s they joined forces with Toulouse-based Topcad with the goal of creating an integrated CAD/CAM product. Missler Software was formerly known as Missler Informatique, a manufacturing company founding by the Missler brothers in 1984, that designed and manufactured CNC machines. TopSolid is created by Missler Software based in Paris, France. There are bits here and there I’d like to be different, but overall I was blown away. A methodology that was strange to me at first, but then became suddenly familiar and fun to learn. Why? Because Top Solid 7 has a methodology for modeling I hadn’t seen before.

At first I was afraid, then I was excited, then slightly afraid again, then really excited. Sometimes you take a look at 3D software and go mad trying to figure out what eye to puncture first.
