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Re: The Competition, War or Football?

burhop — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:30:40 -0000

LOL - Thanks Matt! ....now I'm going back to working on those secret new plays.

Re: The Competition, War or Football?

burhop — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:04:38 -0000

Thanks, Scott!

My analogy probably works better in the south with its big focus on Football this time of the year. :-)

The photo is not mine but do love the cool things you can do with photos these day... especially the combining of real and virtual.

Re: The 3D Future of Product Development: The Real-Time Web or the Real Web? #DSCC09

burhop — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:42:45 -0000

Yes, we definitely need a better shopping cart. I feel like we are the store and they have run out o bags!

Re: The 3D Future of Product Development: The Real-Time Web or the Real Web? #DSCC09

joshmings — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:26:48 -0000

yep, still haven't gotten an invite, but the more I hear about it, the less I'm impressed, but yeah, even more curious to see it. I guess I'm thinking further along in the future. as you know, a lot of the focus on the web right now is real-time information. What I'm getting it is, forget the information, it's there in the environment, not on the screen. It'll be the shopping cart of product development. (nobody had to prove the value of a shopping cart, and even if you bring your own bag, you know you always leave it in the car... you know.)

That's it. I'm changing my job title to futurist and confining myself to a cabin filled with foam, binoculars and floor to ceiling monitors. anyone hiring? :)

Re: The 3D Future of Product Development: The Real-Time Web or the Real Web? #DSCC09

burhop — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:55:52 -0000

Josh, you almost lost me with the first paragraph, but the rest was pretty good :-)

I'm surprised you didn't throw in some reference to Google Wave but you are probably still waiting for an invite.

The question for me is if designers and engineers are really wanting this.Sure, you, me and your progressive blog readers might but what about the other 90% of designers and engineers sitting in their cube cranking out the products? If the value can be proven, they may be forced to do it (like PDM) but how long will that take?

Re: Sidewiki

burhop — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:41:35 -0000

Good post Laura. I certain like the idea of "web graffiti you mentioned. Will that be what this becomes?

I've been checking out a few more well known domains just to see what is there. So far, its been more along these lines and less useful. Will more comments cause the useful ones to bubble up? I guess we will see.

Re: Get Your Virtual Viewing On STAT with the 3DVia Mobile iPhone App

burhop — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:30:39 -0000

Ah! That is kind of clever and good to know.

Re: Get Your Virtual Viewing On STAT with the 3DVia Mobile iPhone App

cmedling — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:16:33 -0000

Burhop- Unfortunately, you cannot use existing pictures, as the App calculates the perspective during the picture taking process.

Nice post Josh! But, a car on a banana? Did you skip breakfast?

Re: Get Your Virtual Viewing On STAT with the 3DVia Mobile iPhone App

burhop — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:53:57 -0000

Is there any way to use an existing picture on the iPhone? It worked great for taking a picture but I didn't find a way to use one I took the other day.

Re: What CAD Programs Run on Linux? These Do.

burhop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:43:42 -0000

w00t. I get 3 cents every time you say NX :-)

Re: What CAD Programs Run on Linux? These Do.

joshmings — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:31:07 -0000

ok, ok you two. :) yep, just like a blogger to throw down a misleding headline just to pull in more traffic and comments. seems to be working. I'll have to leave NX out more often. haha.

Re: What CAD Programs Run on Linux? These Do.

burhop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:21:24 -0000

But only if the web page is not opened from a frame. Try this URL:

http://novedge.com/i/56756

Re: What CAD Programs Run on Linux? These Do.

Marijn — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:14:21 -0000

Yeah it is not very clear but it is also on top of your window ;)
Wordpress topic title diffrent from the title bar title..

Re: What CAD Programs Run on Linux? These Do.

burhop — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:08:26 -0000

Hey, your question was "What CAD Programs Run on Linux?" You didn't bring up free until 1/2 way through your article. I bet you are not even a real journalist :-)

Re: 3 Ways To Model The Same Thing

brianmcelyea — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:27:44 -0000

All of the methods but one shown in my post above and including the groove in the main revolve are equally easy to modify with a double click on the sketch or feature or a click and drag with Instant 3D on. The only exception is for the offset cut; AFAIK, that one would require going into the feature definition to change the location.

Re: 3 Ways To Model The Same Thing

burhop — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:56:23 -0000

Which option is best if you think you want to modify it later? An o-ring will likely always be circlular but you may want to move it higher or lower in the cylinder.

Re: Direct vs. History: The CAD Power Struggle

gol10dr — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:45:03 -0000

Thanks for the comment Mark. There were many traditional parallels I could have used but thought I would use a more main stream example to hopefully get users to comment on how these tools would/could be most useful to them. Interesting that all of us on the Vendor side are commenting here so far. I hope more users let us all know what is best for their challenges.

In the end I am glad to see the emergence of more options for 3D design. The more tools in your pouch, the less trouble you have formulating an idea into reality.

Re: PTC/USER - SolidSmack on the Scene, Crispy and Cleeeeean.

burhop — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:19:21 -0000

Matt,

Check out http://getsatisfaction.com/ I don't know if it will ever make it to CAD but I've found it to be a pretty good tool for the products I use that are there.

Re: PTC/USER - SolidSmack on the Scene, Crispy and Cleeeeean.

burhop — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:12:26 -0000

Yea, I think one of the new hats for marketing in this domain is not really to do the talking... its to enable the conversations.

Get the tools into the right hands, make sure your people don't make the obvious social media mistakes, get management to buy in and support it, etc.

I'm really glad I don't work in marketing right now. That has got to be a hard job :-)

Re: PTC/USER - SolidSmack on the Scene, Crispy and Cleeeeean.

MatthewWest — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:03:18 -0000

I think that's the biggest challenge facing a lot of companies, especially ones that don't have large amounts of young people. One of my biggest goals is trying to get more people from areas like R&D, development and product definition active on blogs, Twitter, etc. We have a few tech guys in England blogging now that are posting some awesome stuff.

Re: PTC/USER - SolidSmack on the Scene, Crispy and Cleeeeean.

burhop — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:56:33 -0000

Matt, I know where you are coming from (I've had 5 people try to sell me a new roof in the last month) but it seems to me you don't want to lump all the marketing folks into one group.

I would say the marketing folks in the CAD industry have done pretty good with social media so far. Granted, I'd like to see a bit more substance but I think that will come when marketing is able to better demonstrate the need for non-marketing folks to get involved.

Re: Direct vs. History: The CAD Power Struggle

burhop — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:58:29 -0000

Lou I love your blog but I think I’d use a different analogy.

If you were to compare the emergence of History based parametic modeling back around 1990 to what is going on today, I see a lot of similarities. PTC didn’t arrive on the scene with the product is has now, it was a much more primitive version compared to what it has today. I still remember going to a trade show with the PTC guy trying to get me to talk features while I wanted to talk lines and arcs. The technological advantages were far less clear.

So, rather than the Apple to Microsoft analogy, I’d rather stick to your original 'History of CAD’ idea. To me, the history based solutions as we know them today have reached their potential. Sure, we can add more goodness around it, tweak it here and there, maybe break it up but there is only so much more horsepower you can get.

The potential of the new technologies has only been partially filled and it can already do (roughly) what a history based system can do. It has some plusses and minuses today as you point out but the minuses are more due to having the resource to flesh it out rather than some technological limitation.

If you are going to design a part today, you have to look at a static point in time and decide what technologies to use. But if you are running a business, looking at where things were in CAD and where they are going will be very valuable.

Re: The Frigin’ Long Post of 5 Things a SolidWorks User Can Gain From Going to a Pro/E Conference

joshmings — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:32:42 -0000

You can definitely comment here Mark! I remember, you were early on with the Social Media stuff and have a unique perspective on the VR side of things. I do think we (and definitely the developers) need to look past the CultureTech and form usability, software and hardware around the user. You'd understand that better than most, when I say 'form... around the user' - maybe there's way to even get rid of ST and make things easier, or get rid of Instant3D or toolbars. are we looking at that or are we just trying to line up with Microsoft's standard of UI. I dunno, I'm really anxious for 'different' lately and even those there's bit and peices in each software package, i think there needs to be more innovation. Thanks for the post!

Re: The Frigin’ Long Post of 5 Things a SolidWorks User Can Gain From Going to a Pro/E Conference

burhop — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:10:45 -0000

Can I comment here or am I doubly banned? :-)

I really like looking at different CAD programs. They all have pluses and all have negatives and love to see what my colleagues at the other CAD companies come up with. It also feels good when your team has come up with something a little better than the other team.

I do think there is a lot of innovation going on right now in the CAD industry and I think you picked up on it from both conferences you have gone to. (you would have seen the same at PLM World too). The two big drivers to me are:

- making things easier for CAD users by avoiding history tree problems and allowing users to work more directly with the geometry.

- using social media technologies to enhance the product development process.

Just one would be enough for some big changes but both means some exciting times.

Re: Bi-Linear Material Models

swertel — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:06:44 -0000

Mark,

I'm not ignoring your comment. The response requires a bit more effort than just a blog comment. I haven't made the time to accurately explain applications of bi-linear material models.