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Re: Wild West Motors Gets the AutoDesk Vibe, Tells SolidWorks.. ByeBye

aldean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:25:13 -0000

I wrote about Wild West back in the MCAD days and they've always been absolutely key focussed on design using AliasStudio, with the 'engineering' part backing that up. Makes sense for them completely.

Re: One Week From Yesterday. Dassault Systèmes Customer Conference 2009 #DSCC09

aldean — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:21:23 -0000

finally. you've worked it out man.. it's all about the pens...

Re: SolidWorks World 2009 Roll Call

aldean — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:04:19 -0000

yeah yeah - I'll be there home boy...

Re: The Herman Miller Embody Chair. Yeah For Blood Flow!

aldean — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:53:09 -0000

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Re: Need an Inspection Expert? Here’s… InspectionXpert for SolidWorks

aldean — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:06:48 -0000

Oh, absolutely - that inspection market is due for a change at some point, but I guess you have to question where the costs can be stripped out of it.. the measuring arms (I do like the simpler devices like the Faro Gauge) are damn costly, but with the tolerances and accuracy, I guess they have to be.. Titanium and Carbon Fibre don't come cheap these days.. but what you have is a fantastic bit of kit.. maybe you should talk to Josh about having him review it for us.. ;)

Re: Friday Smackdown: CopperBottoms

aldean — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:25:12 -0000

"On the other hand, wearing black hipster clothing and hanging in cafes smoking Gaulloises cigarettes does not make you creative. Buying a MacBook Pro and an iPhone doesn’t get it done either."

Shite, I've been rumbled...

Re: Need an Inspection Expert? Here’s… InspectionXpert for SolidWorks

aldean — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:22:39 -0000

This would be sweet if you could link it into a Faro arm or something like that ala PowerInspect or Qualify - bur i guess that's a whole different ball game.. but its nice.. looks useful..

Re: SolidWorks. Rapid-Prototyping. Acrylic. GUNS.

aldean — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:25:53 -0000

What? Your voice is out of sync with your mouth and have no arm muscles?

no no no no no... its SO very very wrong... ;)

Re: Flying Ninjas, No. 3D Future CAD Interface, Yes.

aldean — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:29:43 -0000

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

Even less annoying video.. Gotta love late 90s post pub television for really noisey bands LIVE on TV.. saw these guys support the beastie boys.. when they'd finished, people thought,

"damnnnn.. who's gonna top this.?"

Re: Flying Ninjas, No. 3D Future CAD Interface, Yes.

aldean — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:26:52 -0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyF_UN8g9f0

less annoying video...

Re: SolidWorks. Rapid-Prototyping. Acrylic. GUNS.

aldean — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:15:28 -0000

I waiting with bated breath to see what Mark actually looks like... GUTTTEDDDDD dudes..

Re: SolidWorks. Rapid-Prototyping. Acrylic. GUNS.

aldean — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:23:22 -0000

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Re: SolidWorks. Rapid-Prototyping. Acrylic. GUNS.

aldean — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:06:54 -0000

cocked, locked and ready to rock - or errr.... organise... something like that anyway...

Re: Video - Splitting a Part in SolidWorks

aldean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:12:17 -0000

Love this man.. I've always done it this way, but of late, I'm really digging the ability to split the part up into mutliple bodies, so you can maintain a single part file, with all the 'parts/bodies' within it until the point where you might need entries in a data management system and separate part references..

Oh and Mr. Doyle show me a neat little trick which I never thought about for a linear split - where you use a reference plane instead of a surface - slightly less heavy model.. New Lip and Groove thing rocks with this TOO..

Re: Oh, That’s My Fat Multi-Touch Modular Display… In HD Dude.

aldean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:09:58 -0000

I'm needing 64 of these for the secret lai......... shit, nearly gave the game away there...

Re: SolidWorks. AutoDesk. That’s My TradeMark, Not Yours

aldean — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:39:13 -0000

Gay.. all of it... just G.A.Y...

Re: End of Desktops? The Dell 17″ Quad-Core Beast

aldean — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:52:03 -0000

how frickin' hot is this thing going to run - the end of desktops alright, they'll burn baby burn.. like a disco inferno...

Re: It’s Here. iTracer Puts 3D CAD… On the iPhone.

aldean — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:26:05 -0000

yup - straight from the dungeon at d3d towers.. I love apple laptops, for some that writes as much as I do, the keyboard is worth the investment before I get all clawed up like emperor palpatine and they have to prize my blackberry out of my cold dead hands..

multitouch looks cool - but for CAD? I ain't so sure.. and there's one very good reason (actually, two).. RSI and bloodflood... unless its a tablet style implimentation..

hope you're taking a rest dude

Re: It’s Here. iTracer Puts 3D CAD… On the iPhone.

aldean — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:45:25 -0000

proprietary fools

Re: Di-Cycle: The Two-wheel Bicycle Designed For Watery Places

aldean — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:52:05 -0000

this is pretty cool man - I love how it looks - I don't imagine would be half as much fun actually riding this thing - the tyres are pretty narrow, and imagine trying to park the mother..

Re: SolidWorks Crushing Skull of CAD Marketing with Small Army

aldean — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:40:08 -0000

I've always said that the SolidWorks guys play the hard ball game enough - they're content to be the good guys - and we all know, whether its Vader or the Cylons, the bad guys are cooler and have better marketing..

Re: Apply Excitment of OpenGL vs Direct3D Directly to Forehead

aldean — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:59:47 -0000

I dunno, I'm not convinced about 3D as a UI metaphor for everyday.. I like my desktop, I think it works, but then, I'm pretty anal about organization, folders and stuff.. I think I'm too old..

Re: Apply Excitment of OpenGL vs Direct3D Directly to Forehead

aldean — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:44:33 -0000

for some good ol geeky story nonsense, have a poke at Renegades of the Empire about the three guys that cooked up Project Chrome at Microsoft (which eventually got, sort of bastardized into DirectX) and the shenanigans they got up to.. I think the authors name is somebody Drummound..

Re: Explode Diagrams. The Next Cool Thing In 3D CAD

aldean — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:04:17 -0000

its not really - it lets you take your 3D data and repurpose it for tech pubs, service manuals and stuff - its pretty intelligent and can do a lot of the hardwork for you - illustrator is pretty much, as josh says, a vector drawing tool.. composer is much more.. task specific?

Re: Salvador Dali Says Your 3D Product Design is INSANE

aldean — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:52:51 -0000

I guess I just don't get Dali - there's something about the brush work, how he uses paint that I just find a real turn off.. Sure, I can see why peeps see him as a Genius, but... I don't know, I just can't explain it - maybe Picasso got to me too early..