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Re: 3DVia Hawks Big 3D Loogie Into Photo-Editing. 3DVia for Photoshop

CharlesCulp — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:53:53 -0000

Don't forget. With the collada export plug-in for SolidWorks, you can export collada files that can be directly imported into Photoshop.

Re: 4 Rockin’ Cool Transforming Aircraft and Vehicle Animations? YES. For REAL.

CharlesCulp — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:15:32 -0000

Citroen did a whole series of commercials about 3-4 years ago with their new C4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4ckJFNkra8

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Re: You Say Electrobeam Freeform Fabrication. I Say 3D Metal Manufacturing Magic, So There.

CharlesCulp — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:57:05 -0000

http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/213-Tita...

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Re: 2D Exorcism Quick Tips! From Adobe Illustrator to SolidWorks to Rockin’

CharlesCulp — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:35:00 -0000

Solidworks 2D Spline interface > Adobe Illustrator Spline interface

Yeah, I said it. Adobe could learn a lesson from Solidworks. Adobe's trace function is far better. Their spline handles are also easier to manipulate, but they also require that quirky two different mouse pointer thing (black selection tool vs white selection tool).

Re: Ask The Reader: Tablet, Laptop, Desktop. What Would You Use For 3D Design?

CharlesCulp — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:06:16 -0000

Your questionnaire is a bit ambiguous to me. Is this hypothetical "in the future", or based on currently available technology?

Currently, desktops are the only ones with 24" widescreen high-contrast high-brightness monitors for any realistic price, so it wins.

Five years from now I'd love to have a 32x24" sheet of touchscreen goodness, with a stylus in my hand. Hopefully we get there soon. We still have our old drafting desks here, I want to mount my "monitor" on one of these bad boys and go oldschool/newschool on it.

Re: Two Skull Crushing Methods to Recess a Curved Surface in SolidWorks

CharlesCulp — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:57:33 -0000

The difference between Extrude To Surface (or extruded cut to surface), and an offset is a matter of the sides, and the curvature. Extrudes will create flat sides, and a linear extrusion. If you are looking ad embossing or debossing a logo into a plastic part, then it is definitely the way to go. You can then create draft, and it will be easy to make.

The reason to consider an offset surface is for more complex shapes. If you want it to cover a 90° bend, for example, it will have to be an offset, because you cannot extrude in both of the directions. Because the "curvy surface" used in this example is almost flat, this is not noticeable.

Also, if it is a plastic injection molded part, with the offset surface you will have to accommodate the draft with other solutions. Simply "applying draft" will probably not work, and that will all just depend on the model.

Re: 8 Pounds of Buttery Car Modeling Tutorials Comin’ atacha

CharlesCulp — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:09:53 -0000

Here is a tutorial on how to design Class A surfaces done in Alias SurfaceStudio:

http://aliasdesign.autodesk.com/learning/tutori...

It is not for the faint of heart.

Re: How To Model a Audi R8 Car in SolidWorks. 12 Hours in 5 Minutes.

CharlesCulp — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:45:05 -0000

https://1bosweb3.experient-inc.com/Events/Solid...

Make sure to include a link to this page.

Re: How To Model a Audi R8 Car in SolidWorks. 12 Hours in 5 Minutes.

CharlesCulp — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:11:50 -0000

That man should be presenting at SWW 2010.

Re: 10 Things That Still Sucks the Big Lemon in SolidWorks 2010.

CharlesCulp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:29:01 -0000

Yes, there are some functions that are faster. Matt did a writeup of it here: http://www.dezignstuff.com/blog/?p=2685

Re: Friday Smackdown: Bun Snap Kill

CharlesCulp — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:38:46 -0000

Your beetle link didn't work, google made it all OK though.

Here's another outstanding toolchest: http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/14357/lonni...

Re: Design Engineers, Look Out. You are Becoming Extinct.

CharlesCulp — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:23:58 -0000

I have to say that I've only ever met a few "CAD engineers". Almost all engineers I know spend most of their time engineering, and only use CAD as a tool for creating drawings, or hand off that work to a CAD designer.

Re: I want my 3D print in Stainless Steel!

CharlesCulp — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:41:39 -0000

Bathsheba has been using ProMetal to do this for quite a while now (quite a few years):
http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/process/

And also now available from shapeways:
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/bathsheba

Very cool stuff.

Re: The SolidWorks Community Forums Are Alive and Jivin’

CharlesCulp — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:22:44 -0000

Josh,

Sending direct messages to people was disabled temporarily to avoid some privacy issues. Once they get that worked out the forums will allow for direct email to anyone who is a "friend"; which I think is the reason you will want to friend people.

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

CharlesCulp — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:48:36 -0000

Haha. Your response merely proves my point that you are all emotion and absolutely no fact.

As I mentioned, I have practical, real reasons for running both Windows and OSX. Neither of them are driven because one is "more stable" than the other; because it isn't true, as you are obviously unable to admit to yourself.

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

CharlesCulp — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:25:29 -0000

You state that OSX is more stable than Windows. You also cite this in reference to CAD software. Please state some proof.

Sure, Solidworks, and all other CAD software, crashes frequently. I haven't seen Windows crash in years. WinXP/Vista is not Windows 95.

My wife's old Mac used to crash at least once a week, running OSX 10.2. So by my personal experience my Windows (both at home and at work) was significantly more stable than her OSX.

Then again, if you can prove that Windows is less stable than OSX, go ahead.

Re: The Extremely Huge (and Slightly Imaginative) Augmented Expectations of Future 3D CAD Users

CharlesCulp — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:12:36 -0000

When this happens is when:
world = awesome.

I'm waiting. I'm also waiting for my cybernetic legs. These ones I have now are already on the mess-up.

Re: One of These Things Is Not Like the Other… SolidWorks Visual Properties

CharlesCulp — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:02:35 -0000

After playing with the different options the last couple years, I always keep mine phantom. This is more important for surface models, where you want to control the tangency between faces. This way you can visually see the difference between the two.

Then, if I want a nice visualization with no lines, I turn off all edges with Shaded Model with Hidden Edges.

Re: Do You Covert Stuff? Okino Bounces Out the New SolidWorks CAD Converter System.

CharlesCulp — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:15:24 -0000

Excellent! Now all I need is a copy of Maya...

Re: SolidWorks World 2009: Get Your Bearings

CharlesCulp — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:18:11 -0000

What size bearings do we get? are they Timken?

Re: SolidWorks World 2009 Roll Call

CharlesCulp — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:02:20 -0000

I will be there... just as soon as I reserve hotel accommodations I'll be set (yup, been putting that off 3 weeks now).

Re: FaceBook Connect… Cause SolidSmack Loves You and Your Comments

CharlesCulp — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:05:03 -0000

Also, in addendum, I will not be linking my disqus comments with facebook. No one I am in touch with on facebook will be interested in what I have to say on solidsmack.com. This is said with absolutely no offense to Disqus, or to Josh. I think it is great that these things are being interwoven, and I look forward to other similar enhancements in the future that I might want to take advantage of.

I will mention, however, that another option would be to create two facebook pages, one professional and one personal. I am not pursuing that option right now, but it is something I have been considering.

Re: FaceBook Connect… Cause SolidSmack Loves You and Your Comments

CharlesCulp — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:59:14 -0000

To filter singly because they even have a Facebook page is going to hurt them from recruiting anyone who is younger. Everyone I know under the age of 25 and above the age of 15 has one. I cannot think of a single person who does not. Of all the people I know that are between 25 and 35, I can only think of two people who don't. Just for reference I fall in that category, so I know hundreds of people who are in that age category, and only two who don't have a Facebook page.

In the same tone of your posts, however, I do not use Facebook as a professional resume. I have a LinkedIn profile for that purpose. I use Facebook to stay connected with my friends and family. Both of my parents have a facebook page, and they both use them frequently to stay in contact with those around them.

My father regularly posts information to Facebook. I can assure you until he retired earlier this year he was well respected professionally. I can't imagine him interviewing for his "retirement job" and having them say "no, sorry, you use facebook, we can't hire you." In fact, if an interviewer said that to me, I would be very wary of working for that company, they are obviously lost in the past and out of touch with reality. Much like, say.. the Big 3 of auto.

Re: Friday Smackdown: Derailer Yank

CharlesCulp — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:09:28 -0000

9/10 on the robot quiz. Almost, enough for an 'A' guess, but not quite perfect. A robot would have been perfect...

Re: 40+ SolidWorks and 3D CAD Users to Follow on Twitter

CharlesCulp — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:13:34 -0000

You're still not on twitter? Create an account at home, then create an iGoogle account (http://www.google.com/ig). Then add the "BeTwittered" application (http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=32hours.co...).