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Re: The Importance of a Good Back-up System

Rod Uding — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:26:55 -0000

So sorry to hear you got smacked by the power outage. That happened last year here in the Saint Louis are twice. Once in the summer and again at the start of December. Areas to the west on north of Saint Louis got whacked this week, but we dodged the bullet. I hope they get your power up soon. Stay warm and safe.

Re: SolidWorks Obsessive Compulsive Mode

Rod Uding — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:23:43 -0000

This would be a nice enhancement to have. I usually end up building the folders as I go along. Some may only have one item, but I end with a tree that is all folders that looks nice.

Re: Rock Productivity With the Xobni Outlook Plugin

Rod Uding — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:00:34 -0000

Looks pretty awesome Josh. And kill off some of those emails! :)

Re: Rock Productivity With the Xobni Outlook Plugin

Rod Uding — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:02:11 -0000

Shawn,
I have looked at the tiddlywikie before, but have not yet figured out how I should use it. Any suggestions or have you been using it.

Re: Rock Productivity With the Xobni Outlook Plugin

Rod Uding — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:33:33 -0000

Thanks for the very helpful reply Shawn, I am going over to Tiddlywiki and download it right now and start experimenting with it.

Re: Rock Productivity With the Xobni Outlook Plugin

Rod Uding — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:26:02 -0000

Josh,
I have installed the plugin and all I can say is WOW! I just used the search and BAM, there was the email I needed to reference. Thanks for passing on the information about this awesome piece of software!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Friday Smackdown

Rod Uding — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:18:21 -0000

I have been playing with the Tiddlywiki. I am starting to get some ideas on how I can use it to leverage a lot of inforamtion that I have stuffed in binders on my desktop. I may even be pulling stuff from my GoogleDocs to put into it. I still need to search about for more information about it on the sites they recommend for getting assistance. I am planning on moving my Firefox to my 1GB drive and putting my wiki on it also.

Re: SolidWorks World 2008 Fin

Rod Uding — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:52:40 -0000

I believe SWW will be held in Orlando,FL USA next year.

Re: How to Fix Out of Context Parts in SolidWorks

Rod Uding — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:29:49 -0000

I just try to avoid doing things in context at all. Just more stuff to get out of whack while I issue a multitude of 4 letter expletives while fixing it.

Re: FireFox 3 Out For Beta

Rod Uding — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:07:03 -0000

I'm looking forward to the final release. I just recently started using Firefox portable on my 2GB thumb drive to work on my Tiddlywiki files. The new version of Firefox has some superb improvements to make your browsing a lot better.

The best part I love about Firefox is the add-ins, so many to choose from and new ones popping up all the time.

Re: 5 Slick Ways To Improve SolidWorks Large Assembly Performance

Rod Uding — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:42:17 -0000

I learned a new method from one of Barry-Wehmiller International Resources division contractors we have working for us. They use weldments to generate a lot of stuff. The guy is designing a new machine for us and one of the big items that chews up the assembly is piping. He did all the piping for the machine in a weldment as a SINGLE PART. I am going to go back through the help file and read up on weldments!!!!

Re: Who’s In Charge of The SolidWorks Real Logo?

Rod Uding — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:54:30 -0000

Your killing me Josh, the chuckles won't stop and I will probably have weird dreams about this tonight.

Re: PicLens: The Coolest 3D Plugin Ever

Rod Uding — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:03:19 -0000

CoolIris is great, I need to install it on my portable Firefox since I do not even use my desktop Firefox any more where I had it installed. It is way cool.

Re: Friday Smackdown: It Won’t Hurt

Rod Uding — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:05:22 -0000

The low impact woodland home is pretty darn impressive for someone basically tossing a bunch of stuff together. I have to take my hat off for the guy that built it.

Re: Very Cool Cutting Board Designed in SolidWorks

Rod Uding — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:23:31 -0000

A very inventive idea combining a couple of items together to come up with something that is pretty radical in my view. This is really thinking outside the box!

Re: How To Get Hired On the Spot Plus Have An Easy Interview

Rod Uding — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:19 -0000

Weird timing on the post Josh. Around the time you posted this, I got an inivatiion to join LinkedIn through Design World. I joined after reading this post and a couple of day's later, I got a invitation to connect with a guy who works for a head hunting outfit that I have worked with. Karma!

Re: Friday Smackdown: Man Down

Rod Uding — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:20:36 -0000

Ok Mr Font nut, found a link for you to have even more fonts to pick from:

http://www.rewardprograms.org/thefreegeek/featu...

Re: SolidSmack Turns 1 Year Old: Still Cute, But a Bit Sassy

Rod Uding — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:51:17 -0000

WOW! Hard to believe that an entire year has passed since you started. I am glad to see how the interest in you site has grown. Just keep pounding the posts and it will keep going!

Re: SolidSmack Turns 1 Year Old: Still Cute, But a Bit Sassy

Rod Uding — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:58:36 -0000

I agree with Charges on the shortcuts. I would like to see more shortcuts at the top of the home page that are static and appear on all pages. I just like it that way because it makes it easier to navigate and most of the sites for vendors tend to do that I visit often.

Re: SolidSmack Turns 1 Year Old: Still Cute, But a Bit Sassy

Rod Uding — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:13:44 -0000

Josh,
Perhaps you have become a blogoholic. The intense need to get ideas out of your mind and out into the open for everyone else to read and comment on. It starts small with on or two posts every couple of days then it explodes into two or three a day. I look forward to the day's when you will pop off about 20 per day. :)

Re: SportCopter GyroPlane Designed in SolidWorks, No Turret Guns

Rod Uding — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:33:44 -0000

Cool design! Be nice to have to to play with on the weekends.

I am glad to hear that I not the only person who also has the fear of planes crashing on me.

Re: FireFox3 Rocks Your Noodle at Noon CST

Rod Uding — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:32:31 -0000

I have been waiting for this day! I hope they release the portable version at the same time, that is what I have been using. Makes it convenient to drag all my bookmarks and passwords around with me between work and home and on the road.

Re: Ask the Reader: What Version of SolidWorks Are You Using? (Oh, and Tips.)

Rod Uding — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:12:52 -0000

Currently, I am still on 2007. Our company has a bizarre setup on Solidworks and other software now. Our location is at the corporate HQ in Clayton, MO. We manufacture in Phillips, WI. The division in Phillips now controls our licenses and will not permit us to upgrade until they do. Now, this is pretty bogus since each of our engineering departments are totally separate and we are on completely different servers for our files and neither department has access to the others servers. The Phillips IT department has all the control over our computers and software, yet the corporate IT department gives us the support and runs our network and servers.

Re: When will Solidworks allow for me to lin …

Rod Uding — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:18:53 -0000

I a agree Charles, a revision should be tied to the model and the drawing. Seems like it would be pretty straight forward to do so. I alway's wondered about why it was separate.

Re: in an assembly can I space multiple obje …

Rod Uding — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:26:04 -0000

I concur with your comment Ben from 10:45 2008/11/23. Why can't I drive a pattern with a curve in an assembly. It would save me a lot of time when I do not have a pattern on a part in the assembly.

Re: It’s just like the other one, but…

Rod Uding — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:38:58 -0000

I agree with Devon on the One Config, One File, One Part Number Scheme. In our office we have problems with files that have multiple configs like bar stock. If I need to add on to it and someone else is using it. I have to have them exit it or add the part I need to the config.

We do try to keep the configs if used to the least number possible if we do use them.

Re: Gabi Jack’s Blog is one year old!

Rod Uding — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:05:05 -0000

Congratulations Gabi! It is hard to believe you have been blogging for a year. Seems longer than that though. Nice reformat you have done on the blog since moving it. It would be nice if you could get the Disqus comments going. Looking forward to lots of posts in 2009. Keep up the great work!

Re: DEVELOP 3D Magazine

Rod Uding — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:01:47 -0000

Awesome post on D3D Richard. I just read the January issue last week which was my first issue. I enjoyed it very much and will read it again this weekend because I am not working and everyone else will be at SWW!

Keep up the posting good sir.

Re: 3D CONTENT CENTRAL (The Next Generation)

Rod Uding — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:19:47 -0000

Wow Rich, that was a wordy post good sir. And that is why I like it. I will have to go check out the new and improved 3D Content Central when I roll into work on Monday (muttering about the folks who have fun at SWW). It seems that many improvements have been made to induce me to use it more often. Thanks for putting out a post on one of the more underutilized portions of SW. Have a good time at SWW.

Re: SolidWorks World 2009 “Tuesday”

Rod Uding — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:50:56 -0000

Well Rich, the last photo can only be called "cheeky"