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Re: Waging War on Whitespace (using TextMate)

listrophy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:52:20 -0000

Living the "leave the campsite cleaner than when you found it" motto, I manually strip whitespace (well, with a bundle command... not *actually* manually) any file when I find it. Rather than feeling like an automated process, it feels like an accomplishment.

"ahh, *I* made this file better."

Re: SolidWorks 2010 Beta: It’s Calling You From the Wild

listrophy — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:49:07 -0000

Mouse gestures. I want me some mouse gestures in SolidWorks.

Re: Win a $500 Griffin Technology Shopping Spree!

listrophy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:48:09 -0000

As a future iPhone developer, I think the compass is a game changer.

Re: SolidWorks on Mac: CEO Speaks Out. You Have Your Say. {Poll}

listrophy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:40:42 -0000

Psst... It's not "OS" but "OS X". And I would absolutely love an OS X version. The problem with Jeff Ray's statement "the market hasn’t voted that way" is that it's a chicken and egg problem. Without a Mac-compatible SolidWorks (or AutoCAD or Pro/E...) version, there will never even be a way for the market to vote that way.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Making a NASA Themselves

listrophy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:13:40 -0000

"Perhaps diverting funds from Constellation into unmanned missions makes more sense, as robotic exploration accounts for most of the important science being done by NASA today."

This conclusion is fallacious. It posits that, because most current missions conducting "important science" (a decidedly ambiguous term) are unmanned, future funding should also be spent on unmanned missions.

"The conventional counterargument asserts that the manned space program justifies its expense and its danger because it attracts the most attention, not just to NASA, but to science in general."

One might argue that a single person could perform the entire 5 year mission of either Spirit or Opportunity within 2 days. This would be due to increased mobility, dexterity, and self-guidance at the expense of life-support equipment and a return trip. I would consider this to be the most obvious, effective, and scientifically-bound counterargument.

I'm sorry to nitpick, but this particular paragraph paints me - a staunch supporter of both manned and unmanned missions - as entirely irrational and driven by emotion rather than scientific rigor.

Re: Friday Smackdown: Feverish Auxiliary

listrophy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:17:14 -0000

I had some fun with Sibocks' image "Chemical." If you don't like the color, try opening it in an image editor (Paint.NET for me on windows), adjusting the hue, and then adjusting the levels. I shifted the hue to blue-ish purple, then removed all red. My desktop is now made of crazy electric-blue strands. I'd post my modifications, but I couldn't find the appropriate copyright information.

Re: How to Direct Model an Aardvark in SolidWorks and 10 Other Things We’re Not Writing About Today

listrophy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:13:29 -0000

Actually, it's an anteater, and that picture is the basis for a old internet meme: (NSFW language) http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=wvrex2&s=3

Also, a good title would be: SolidWorks HQ Shuts Down; Recommends Migration Path to AutoCAD

Re: The Big Book of SolidWorks Selections Tricks (In One Little Post)

listrophy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:34:26 -0000

My favorite is left-oriented vs. right-oriented box select. If you create a box by dragging to the right, you select only those components that are entirely within the box. If, on the other hand, you create the box by dragging to the left, you select all components which touch the interior of the box, but aren't necessarily entirely contained therein.

Re: 3D From SolidWorks. IT’S A BLAST. (As in Explosive… in a Literal Sense)

listrophy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:16:06 -0000

This is just a sad excuse for SolidWorks to use "blowing things up" as a cheesy hook to market their product.

All I can say is: More, please?

Re: Friday Smackdown: Reykjavík Toaster Mob

listrophy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:39:58 -0000

The biggest reason I've used WinDirStat is to find those pesky COSMOSWorks/Simulation results files that are tucked away in folders which I've forgotten about. With WinDirStat, they show up as giant blobs that are impossible to miss.

Re: Friday Smackdown: Reykjavík Toaster Mob

listrophy — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:06:40 -0000

Regarding the ultimate computer repair utility, I definitely agree with JKDefrag. Good stuff. I'd also add WinDirStat (http://windirstat.info/), a utility that visually describes how files take up space on your hard drive.

Re: The 18 Most Obvious (and some not so obvisous) SolidWorks Tips of All Time

listrophy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:50:19 -0000

Turn on Smart Move: Control Panel -> Mouse -> Motion tab -> Smart Move = Enabled.

Use it slowly at first, and after awhile, you'll be ready to click "OK" before any pop-up dialog even shows up.

Re: 4 TeraFlops on Your Desktop. The nVidia Tesla SuperComputer. How Fast Will Your Computer Be?

listrophy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:35:15 -0000

Imagine a beowulf cluster of.... oh, wait. Wrong website. My bad.

Re: Friday Smackdown: Derailer Yank

listrophy — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:21:20 -0000

Desktop customization... that's the one thing I miss the most about my days in Linux. Instead of having "a desktop," I had "my desktop."

Now I'm a Mac-at-home, Windows-at-work kinda guy. The last thing my video card at work needs is more eye candy, so I'll pass on the Windows customizations... but perhaps I'll get around to tweaking my macs at home.

Re: Toy Manufacturers Will Die February 10, 2009

listrophy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:09:46 -0000

Look at what our parents had... they seemed to turn out alright.

http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol16/?folio=40

Uranium! And gunpowder!

Re: SolidWorks On Edge Relations: Avoid Them Like Teething Zombie Babies

listrophy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:58:29 -0000

It'd be awfully nice to have a "scale" relation. It'd let me define one line as one half (or any other ratio) of the length as the other. Yes, you can kind of accomplish this with "Equations," but it's just not a very elegant solution.

Re: SolidWorks Launches 2009 SP1.0 Right Into Your Face

listrophy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:07:10 -0000

Yikes, we haven't even received our '09 discs from our VAR yet. Not that we'd have migrated by now anyway. :/

Re: 12 SolidWorks Features You Don’t Need—And How to Turn Them Off

listrophy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:54:39 -0000

You can at least snooze indexing for predetermined amounts of time. I like to snooze it for 12 hours each morning, letting the index catch up at night. Right-click on the Windows Search icon and select "Indexing Status." You should be given a drop down box and a snooze button (along with "Index Now" and "Close" buttons).

This, of course, may be specific to WinXP users. Vista could be different, since Windows Search is built-in to that OS.

Re: Cubicle Muses - Switched to Disqus

listrophy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:55:09 -0000

Any hints as to how you integrated disqus with radiant? I just made a radiant site (read "just" as in "today"), but I'd like to encourage commenting via a service like disqus. In case you were interested... http://suprails.org is the site.

Re: Ben Eadie Hits Revision3 with $30 3D Laser Scanner, Plugs SolidWorks

listrophy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:49:49 -0000

I can't watch the video at work, but dang.... in terms of convincing the higher-ups, it sure beats the $2.5k scanners out there. The only decision now is "On which night do I construct one at the office?"

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

listrophy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:20:37 -0000

Now all I need to happen is for another tech bubble to burst so that there's a firesale on these things. Screw the health of the computer industry... I want a sweet chair! =)

Re: SolidWorks BOM Superstar: 5 Moves to Avoid and How to Groove It

listrophy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:59:29 -0000

You'll be happy to hear that this page was the top Google result for " solidworks configuration qty bom." In other words... yes, there will probably be more people who find this. =)

Re: SolidWorks BOM Superstar: 5 Moves to Avoid and How to Groove It

listrophy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:50:42 -0000

After some very frustrated moments, I found the correct way to fix #3. Instead of checking "Don’t copy QTY column name from template," check the box just below it: "Restrict top level only BOMs to one configuration."

After finding this, my blood pressure immediately returned to normal levels.

Re: Two SolidWorks Macros For Blazin’ Fast Assembly Work

listrophy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:58:59 -0000

Here's what I want: a macro to fully define a fastener to a hole. Mate references are nice and all, but a simple mate macro should be much quicker. Here's the idea:
-Select the top edge of the hole and an edge of the underside of the fastener (ie: the annulus)
-Run the macro, which assigns a concentric, coincident, and parallel mate, fully defining the fastener.

Now THAT would be tremendously useful. I'd write it myself, but I'm up to my eyeballs in paperwork right now. =/

Re: Ask the Reader: How Do You Model? Plus A Top-Down Modeling Challenge

listrophy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:59:57 -0000

Stapler! =) I kid, I kid.

I always finish up with bottom-up assemblies, but sometimes I'll start with top-down designs. If I need a bunch of parts and subassemblies to fit into a small space, top-down is the way to go. But once that design is perfected, I convert it to bottom-up. When dealing with configuration management and ECR/ECNs, the last thing you want is one part to auto-update another.