DISQUS

I would like to see an Auto-hide option for the feature manager, similar to the windows task bar.

I'm thinking of some great big funky wine-rack. Don't ask me where that came from.

"Tommy likey, Tommy want Wingy"

Nice new features. What is the hinge mate?

I would use video to reduce my carbon footprint, and reduce global warming, save polar bears, get rid of harmful NOx gases, build a refuge for pandas and penguins, freeze the thawing ice caps, rebuild the ozone layer, bring back the do-do bird, and U.S. americans like such as...

Or I might do something useful like make a video of the latest CAD project I'm working on.

Use a lot of Indirect Illumination, as well as an environment image. Soft shadows always help.

Is it sad that I recognize that rendering environment?

You could printscreen to get the pdf to a jpeg format.

@marijn Yeah, me too. And thats why I have c for mate, because I learned constrain first.

Jeff, I've done that same thing. And then I fly to the hoover dam. It's awesome

Yeah, shortcuts are great but try using 5 different CAD programs and keeping them straight.

You might want to poke your eyes out after seeing all of my shortcuts.
a=zoom all; s=sketch; d=dimension; g=project geometry; l=line; e=extrude(shift e for cut); r=revolve; x=trim; c=mate(constrain); v=view box; b and mouse button=shortcut menu; n=view normal; m=measure; F5=prev view; F6=isometric: F7=section
NumPad is for sketch constraints. 0=concentricl; 1=vertical; 4=perpendicular; 5=midpoint; 7=collinear; 8=tangent; /=parallel; -=horizontal; +=intersection; .=coincident

ctrl+MMB=pan

Here's one thing that can avoid a lot of frustration. If you have a sketch that has missing relations, check to make sure that the sketch has a face/plane first! You can edit the sketch and repair all kinds of relations that don't need it, just because a sketch lost its sketch plane.

Congrats Josh, I'll continue to spend work time reading your blog. Keep 'em coming

I just did, and now it works, hoooray. Thanks.

It worked for me for a while, so I don't think its the vid card.

For some reason my glowing goodness doesn't work. I have realview on, but when I select a face it doesn't glow. Any ideas?

Here is a rendering I did with Indirect Illumination and DOF. http://picasaweb.google.com/ksmason71/Rendering...

I find that Photoworks doesn't do a very good job with depth of field. Indirect illumination is one of the most important aspects of a good rendering, so make the rendering as good as possible without depth of field, then add it later (I think you can use photoshop).

I see the future of cad being good.

...thats all, I make very vague predictions so I'm always right.

Add the 4th dimension. Time.

Have it be a slider bar that you could slide back to the very beginning of your file, add bookmarks along this slider that tell of revisions, prototypes, changes, and other user-defined properties (possible link with outlook's journal). Have the graphics screen display your model/assembly as it appeared at that time.

BUT, have an option to save without all this data to keep file sizes low.

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or listen live at wmmr.com 6-10am

give them one week and you'll see what makes them so funny

Josh,

Do you know of any large scale (fit around a car) scanner. I might have a need for it in the future and since you brought up this topic thought to ask here.

Congrats Josh, and don't forget these rules, http://www.funcollector.com/crazypics/baby_inst...

Does #5 hold true for Inventor users as well? Because I just can't help myself!

Solidworks 2008 has done away with a lot of Right clicking. I had to put my right-clickin finger on a diet since it isn't getting as much exercise.