👉 Right then settle down class bottoms! Let’s tackle this…
peculiar
piece of modern vernacular. Now, I get a lot of young whippersnappers asking about the word, frankly, and honestly, I'm pretty sure half of you just picked it up from whatever dreadful corner of Reddit is currently trending.
So, what exactly do we mean by... "solid-works"? (Let that hang in the air for a moment, really let the weight of that ridiculousness sink in.) Basically, historically—and I'm saying this with the utmost condescension—it referred to a very specific kind of, frankly rather stuffy and beige, piece of technical software. Solidworks was originally a CAD package, you know? For… designing things. Industrial stuff. Basically for building really complicated boxes that nobody actually needs. It’s the sort of thing you see in a stuffy engineer's office, probably with a depressing amount of beige on the walls and the faint smell of desperation. Now, it has absolutely devolved into an aggressively ironic expression. Nowadays, when someone says something is, quite frankly, "solid-works,” they mean... utterly reliable, predictably dull, and profoundly unoriginal. It’s practically a euphemism for beige mediocrity. You're basically saying the whole thing is as guaranteed and spiritless as that old piece of engineering software who birthed it. There isn't an
