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1 year ago
in Best Music To Model and Groove To on SolidSmack
Josh, I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know about SolidWorks till recently. Our first guitar prototypes were made by folks better in the shop than me, and then drawings were reverse-engineered. At that time my first prototype builder (Bruce Sexauer, who shares credit on the design patent) used a popular cad program, and I couldn't afford it, and so I got a different one. Out of kindness I shall refer to it as BongoCad.
Boy, that was a lot of work! But I learned how to do it and made engineering drawings. You can see some of them here --
http://www.megatar.com/english/library/Engineer...
But later on, when we undertook to make these two-handed touchstyle instruments using CNC machinery, rather than struggle with the old cad program, I got a different program, and that's when I discovered that all programs are not the same. Some are easier to use than others.
And it looks like SolidWorks is truly superior in this regard.
It's impressive, and I'm sure that as the news continues to expand, so will the use of SolidWorks. I guess that, once upon a time, just having CAD and modeling software was a big deal, but nowadays, I'd speculate that preserving the designer's time and making the tool clear to use is the most productive path.
Like your company, our company has redesigned the basic approach to an existing universe, in our case it's guitar-playing, and *merely by making the attempt* we found a simpler and faster way to learn to play music, and even allowing people to play bass and guitar at the same time. And yet, *simply by rethinking the approach* it's easier than learning normal guitar (or piano). (Plus it's fun!)
It would seem that your company has focussed on preserving the engineer's clarity of mind and attained rather magnificent reductions in design time. And that's got to make engineering more fun, right?
My hat's off to you!
Boy, that was a lot of work! But I learned how to do it and made engineering drawings. You can see some of them here --
http://www.megatar.com/english/library/Engineer...
But later on, when we undertook to make these two-handed touchstyle instruments using CNC machinery, rather than struggle with the old cad program, I got a different program, and that's when I discovered that all programs are not the same. Some are easier to use than others.
And it looks like SolidWorks is truly superior in this regard.
It's impressive, and I'm sure that as the news continues to expand, so will the use of SolidWorks. I guess that, once upon a time, just having CAD and modeling software was a big deal, but nowadays, I'd speculate that preserving the designer's time and making the tool clear to use is the most productive path.
Like your company, our company has redesigned the basic approach to an existing universe, in our case it's guitar-playing, and *merely by making the attempt* we found a simpler and faster way to learn to play music, and even allowing people to play bass and guitar at the same time. And yet, *simply by rethinking the approach* it's easier than learning normal guitar (or piano). (Plus it's fun!)
It would seem that your company has focussed on preserving the engineer's clarity of mind and attained rather magnificent reductions in design time. And that's got to make engineering more fun, right?
My hat's off to you!
1 year ago
in Best Music To Model and Groove To on SolidSmack
Hi, Josh,
Back in the 80's there was a radio station in San Francisco which played 'soul groove' kind of stuff, and though they had lyrics, it mostly sounded like gibberish to me and didn't interrupt anything. But in later times, I've come to enjoy what I'd call 'space music,' that is, kind of floating new-age stuff. It makes no demand on the intellect, so it's good background sound for thinking.
Maybe it has something to do with brainwave frequencies. The groove stuff that seems to work the best for me is somewhat slow, maybe 72 to 96 beats per minute. This is probably not low enough to induce deep brain waves, but it seems to be calming all the same.
I'm a musician, but I don't play either real groove stuff nor space music. What's most enjoyable to play, for me, is sort of 'elevator music' with jazz harmonies and a groove pulse. (I play two-handed touch-style music on the Mobius Megatar electric guitar and bass instrument. I also make them.) But playing means listening, and background music for thinking sort of works best for me when it's not very active listening.
Back in the 80's there was a radio station in San Francisco which played 'soul groove' kind of stuff, and though they had lyrics, it mostly sounded like gibberish to me and didn't interrupt anything. But in later times, I've come to enjoy what I'd call 'space music,' that is, kind of floating new-age stuff. It makes no demand on the intellect, so it's good background sound for thinking.
Maybe it has something to do with brainwave frequencies. The groove stuff that seems to work the best for me is somewhat slow, maybe 72 to 96 beats per minute. This is probably not low enough to induce deep brain waves, but it seems to be calming all the same.
I'm a musician, but I don't play either real groove stuff nor space music. What's most enjoyable to play, for me, is sort of 'elevator music' with jazz harmonies and a groove pulse. (I play two-handed touch-style music on the Mobius Megatar electric guitar and bass instrument. I also make them.) But playing means listening, and background music for thinking sort of works best for me when it's not very active listening.
