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Re: Link Your Thick Part Thickness toThickity SolidWorks Thickness

joshmings — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:35:39 -0000

Hey, lighten up! I've got a tight schedule these days! :) Plus, I gotta throw out something actually useful every once in a while.

Re: Link Your Thick Part Thickness toThickity SolidWorks Thickness

chriswilliams — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:16:56 -0000

WOW a little light on content today... Should we expect Josh to become the SW tipster? Well atleast you worked a funny one liner into this. I love Pad Thai!

Re: SolidWorks:Heard! - Episode 213 - Vuuch Discussions

gol10dr — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:52:12 -0000

Well hopefully more people get into the community and give their input. I look forward to the new addin and to use the service more in the comming weeks.

Re: SolidWorks:Heard! - Episode 213 - Vuuch Discussions

chriswilliams — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:30:51 -0000

As you mention Lou we are really looking for feedback. Vuuch is in beta and over the next few releases we want to focus on those features that make a differance versus those that add menus... Sign up, give it a try, let us know what you think!

We will ahve a new add-in for SolidWorks that improves on image size, few days away.

Re: Vuuch Product Review: Slapping Discussion Across the Face of Design

chriswilliams — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:46:46 -0000

you are so right... we just released it to see who woudl find it... stealth marketing and product management hard at work... we are working on a number of significant enhancements for pro/user.

Re: COFES 2009: Big, Bright and All About the FUTURE of Software and Design

Jim Brown — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:15:29 -0000

It was a great event as usual. Like Chris, I was pretty impressed with the level of interest in social media / social computing. We literally had people at the door that couldn't fit in the room. See my takeaways on "Social Networking in PLM - Takeaways from COFES" in my blog. http://tinyurl.com/cefb78
PS - no props from chriswilliams for the term twurkr?

Re: COFES 2009: Big, Bright and All About the FUTURE of Software and Design

chriswilliams — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:52 -0000

what was most compelling to me was the amount of focus on social media and the impact it will have on plm. i heard twitter more times than anyone could count. the biggest innovation i was party to was the creation of a new term. twurkr. a twurkr is a lurker in twitter, but they are a bit creepier than the cocktail party eavesdropper, as the only thing they post is promotional...

Re: Friday Smackdown: Pancake Jumper

chriswilliams — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:31:52 -0000

where did you get those images?

Re: The Extreme Sci-Arc Geometry of John Powers’ 3D Art

joshmings — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:58:55 -0000

Cool indeed. There's some really sweet stuff being done using Processing language. Michael Hansmeyer has some really incredible looking kaleidoscope of structure going on.

Re: The Extreme Sci-Arc Geometry of John Powers’ 3D Art

chriswilliams — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:39:06 -0000

Very cool. I wish I could remeber the link but I just say somethig like this that is being done all in software. Yest the output is a 2d picture but the object is 3D. The guy who does it is a CFD coder.

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

joshmings — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:18:50 -0000

awesome Chris, I agree. The context is missing. I use Yammer at work also and I still get up, go over to another persons desk, because the discussion needs to be in the same environment. email, im, micro- blogging, besides being very linear, are disconnected - branches that fall right off the tree of 'the perfect design'.

I'm looking forward to trying out the SolidWorks portion of Vuuch. All the best.

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

chriswilliams — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:14:06 -0000

Has anyone evaluated yammer and come up with a differance of yammer over twitter? I think these tools are good for staying in touch in general sense, but I don't see how these will work for a real design team. The reason is posted http://vuuch.com/wordpress/?p=176 here. The main problem is these tools lack context, menaing they are disconnected just like an email from the what. Example: if I am working in a CAD file and want to ask about the hole diameter then the discussion should know that it is about the hole diameter and then anyone later can see that a disucssion was used to define this diameter... this is what we are doing at vuuch.com.

Re: Toy Manufacturers Will Die February 10, 2009

chriswilliams — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:08:56 -0000

Maybe it is a good thing if toy makers stop selling toys in the US. Don't our kids already have enough to play with. Won't our kids compete with kids who have less?

Do you really think someone from Germany struggles with constraints and restrictions? Have you been to Europe? They love regulation!

Re: Plugin disqus into an application

andrew — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:25:52 -0000

Ah. That should read "web application".

Re: Plugin disqus into an application

chriswilliams — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:36:52 -0000

In your description of Disqus you say " Disqus, pronounced "discuss", is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. The Disqus comment system can be plugged into any website, blog, or application. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community."

When you refer to "application", what do you mean?

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Re: The Top 3D Software for Industrial Design… and Engineering?

joshmings — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:38:38 -0000

I agree chris. the only thing i see bridging the gap of the napkin ideation process is something like I(heart)sketch technology that brings this into the digital realm. but ya won't always have that available. nonetheless, seems like a big gap in the concept/sketching realm that hasn't gone digital yet. not sure I'd want it to actually.

Re: The Top 3D Software for Industrial Design… and Engineering?

chriswilliams — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:41:19 -0000

There should be no surprise that 2d is alive and well. This by no means says anything about the value of 3d. Like someone pointed out, 3d or CAD gives you the ability to then manufacture. Although the outside of a product might be swoopy and sexy the inside is all about function - bosses to hold boards and batteries, ribs for support, etc…
What is surprising to me is that the list is missing scrap paper, napkins, email (maybe guess MS Office covers this), whiteboards and just plain old discussions. Tools like CAD and 2d sketch tools allow the expression of ideas. Before you can model/sketch you need to conceptualize something in your head. The modeling/sketching tool gives you a way to express the idea. Conceptualization happens through freeform discussion with rapid tools like a napkin. Weather your jotting down a list of requirements or capturing a notion of form, the napkin is the core of the design process.