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Re: IKEA Switches to 3D Rendering, Says Heydå (Bye) to Photography

btitus — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:33:24 -0000

Awesome stuff. I wonder how they modeled/rendered those tasty waffles...Or are they Swedish pancakes? In either case it's making me hungry...

Re: Let's Have a Giveaway! 10 Copies of Backup4all Pro Up for Grabs.

btitus — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:29:34 -0000

I've used various backup software with mixed results (mostly performance). I'm currently using SOS and not overwhelmingly pleased. I use backup to "protect" customer files. On more than one occasion it's saved my neck...

Re: SolidWorks World 2010 � That�s a wrap�dammit!

btitus — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:46:02 -0000

It's all about the money. Actually, if memory serves me correctly SolidWorks has typically charged around $150 to go to the special event. How much did they charge this year?

Sure it wasn't off-site.
Sure there wasn't the bottomless well of hard alcohol.
Sure you couldn't see 5 feet in front of your face.
Sure the Aerosmith tribute band wasn't actually Aerosmith
Sure the took way too long to get too little food

What do you expect? It's free beer and food!
I guess people just expect too much.

Re: I Don't Care, I'm Keeping My Distance From Robots Powered By the DEAD.

btitus — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:55:00 -0000

When I first saw this it got me thinking about all sorts of things...
Why does this make me think of Soylent Green?

http://discovermagazine.com...

Re: Eeny, Meeny, What Comes Next? High End CAD on OS X.

btitus — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:46:04 -0000

AS Josh eluded to, Apple has been developing it's products on NX for some time. I'm sure there are is some advantages for Apple to be able to develop its products on its own hardware but all in all this is really just a political move for Siemens.

Will it pay off? Will people switch to NX just because it's available on the MAC?
Are the other CAD vendors really afraid of this move?

In my opinion, the added headache/development time isn't worth small amount of POTENTIAL market share..

Besides, if MAC users really want to do CAD, there is always Vellum...

Re: SolidWorks Crashes & Slowdowns – A clarification

btitus — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:05:00 -0000

AMEN Brutha! Everyone seems to want to bash SolidWorks inability to produce a stable product. People do have to understand that it's a tough balancing act SW has to play between adding new functionality and maintaining stability and all the while trying to gain market share. As far as they are concerned there is still plenty of market share out there. SolidWorks only has 370K seats..uh I mean 1 Million seats...There's still plenty more there...

Re: Free Stuff Part II

btitus — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:06:28 -0000

Hrmm..
http://findarticles.com/p/a...

Re: SolidWorks on Mac: CEO Speaks Out. You Have Your Say. {Poll}

btitus — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:25:12 -0000

I agree. MAINSTREAM doesn't always mean BEST.
(i.e. Blue-Ray vs HD-DVD, VHS vs BetaMax, Word vs Wordperfect, etc..).

CAD (and other) vendors just have to live with (and give in to) what the public wants.

Re: SolidWorks on Mac: CEO Speaks Out. You Have Your Say. {Poll}

btitus — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:05:21 -0000

Non-mainstream (MAC / Linux) users have been arguing cross platform capability for years. Let's face it WINDOWS is and will continue to be the main business OS platform for engineering. Developing SolidWorks on ANY OTHER PLATFORM would be foolish.

Re: SolidWorks Crashes and Slowdowns, Part 2

btitus — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:26:22 -0000

I get issues all the time with new software that I install. I make sure EVERYTIME I install something new that I do a REPAIR on my SolidWorks intallation to ensure all the system DLL's are the proper version and registered correctly.

Re: SolidWorks Certification – Win one of ten free exams!

btitus — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:34:13 -0000

I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a red-hot fire poker...

Re: Important Site Annoucement – April Fools 2009

btitus — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:27:32 -0000

April Fools...
Too bad cuz I love Star Wars...

Re: SolidWorks 2009 SP3 Removes Display State Option?

btitus — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:10:07 -0000

Well, it appears that this may be a regression.
According to the help, the option should still be there

Re: Secret SolidWorks Command?

btitus — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:52:16 -0000

I've been using CTRL-Q for years. Certainly beats turning on "Verification on Rebuild" and suffering the huge performance hit.

It's almost second nature now. When I get pause in thinking, I just CTRL-Q and don't even notice any lag.

It's also a good rule of thumb to CTRL-Q your models AFTER upgrading to a new service pack. You never know where there might be a regression.

Re: The Big Book of SolidWorks Selections Tricks (In One Little Post)

btitus — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:29:15 -0000

Great post. But when will SolidWorks know what I want to select BEFORE I select it???

Re: Engineer Stimulus Package

btitus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:57:34 -0000

This has the murmurings of the 3D-Skills program

Re: Ask the Reader: What Do You Love/Hate About Upgrading to SolidWorks 2009?

btitus — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:59:40 -0000

Just recently did an upgrade at a client from 2007 + PDM Enterprise to 2009 SP1. Skipped 2008 altogether do to stability issues. By the time they decided to upgrade, 2009 was already released.

Utilized an admin image + network license and experienced little (if any) problems.
The biggest hassle was converting (library) files up to 2009 using the Task Scheduler.
After 10 years of SolidWorks upgrades, this one went smoother than expected. Not perfect, but better than expected.

The customer uses FX1300 video cards. They work decent but are looking to upgrade later this year.

Overall, the client is happy with 2009 so far. It's probably a combination of the new (2008) interface plus the new stuff in 2009. PhotoView 360 is a big hit. New enhancements in SolidWorks Enterprise PDM are well liked.