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matt

Yeah, I got nothing. I even searched it, and I'm no further along. Your friends can't help you here, I guess. You could go to a user's profile, click the Search Users Posts link, and then bookmark that. That will just get you to a person's list of posts every day. Or you could go to Facebook. <ll>

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:D Am I supposed to post here to help test? Are we still friends even though I think ST is overrated? ;) :D Ummm ;; I befriended cadforumadmin and I'm checking styles to which treats friends posts differently. So far, nothing. I'll let you know whether you can see the value of ST or not :mrgreen:

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Thanks! I saw this one earlier. I was optimistically saying... if they can do this (keep drawings linked to model) maybe they have a shot at true parametric translation someday. Parametrics and associativity are two different things. Synchronous models can use parametrics. I think you're confusing ...

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matt wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 10:50 am This has already happened. Several years ago. I'll find more detail for you.

Here is a nice video that shows this link and the associativity in the converted drawing.

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Maybe I am optimistic, but I feel like if Siemens can crack the nut of keeping drawings linked to models after a translate, This has already happened. Several years ago. I'll find more detail for you. 2d sketches are actual run on an entirely different kernel than parasolid? d-cubed? Parasolid is 3...

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You can use the Friend functionality. If you click on the users name it will take you to their profile. At the bottom of the top box, you can click Add Friend. Friends posts are highlighted.

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The "New SW CEO" thread has been split into 3 threads: - New SW CEO - CAD in the Cloud/CloudWorks - CAD Migration If you come across a post that seems to be in the wrong place, pleas use the Report functionality (exclamation point at the top of post) and write a little message where you th...

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nordstjernen740 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:50 pm I can't see a way around explicit constraints...

Yeah, I can see that. At one point you had to solve this problem in SW. I'd be willing to bet that it could be solved elsewhere.

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As someone who knows less about the software I have some concerns about that statement. I feel that you're missing some significant usages of the software. Matt, it seems you refuse to consider that Solid Edge's ST may not be the best solution for some. SE offers both, and is a better company to de...

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Legacy support is very important to us and the loss of explicit design intent in a migration seems like it would be very expensive. As someone who knows a little about the software, I can say you're vastly overestimating your "design intent". Half the time the design intent itself is what...

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If there is information lost and that information had value then the "dumb solid" name is very much applicable. Just because you can make changes, does not mean those changes are intelligent. Newer hybrid cad systems (with or without the use of 2d sketches) appear to be able to convey des...

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berg_lauritz wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 12:32 pm Edit:
To clarify further: I think working with 'dumb solids' for a year just to switch would entirely be possible!

"Dumb" solid was a term invented by history based users. Direct Edit people never met a solid they considered unchangeable.

matt

If it's a sketch, use Offset Sketch. If it's a set of faces perpendicular to the screen, use Move Face. If it's a bounded surface, use Extend Surface

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For those who want to hear from someone who actually has used 3DX on a project, check out a recent comment on my blog. Not sure how many of you read that as well as this site, but there is from time to time some cross-over in topics. Anyway, check out this guy's opinion of 3Dx :https://dezignstuff.c...

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The more I think about it, I don't think the problem with DSS is that they are moving in the wrong direction. Others are in this space already and having success. To me it shows just how ineffective DSS is at implementing that vision and communicating it to their customers. The fact that they are w...

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The controversy over the Billeter presentation seems to keep driving activity.

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That's just us rehashing 3DX face palm moments over and over......never gets old apparently. Plus, there are always traffic dips around holidays for professional topic sites. The SW announcement about end of online licensing. And then it hits me SPerman is talking about the funky circle. Yeah, grap...

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HerrTick wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:46 pm Just noticed the new NX forum just now. No one else here. Hope that changes.

Just happened a few days ago. We were hoping you'd have something to say!

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(I hate the fact that themes change layout and functionality, not just colors.) I tried to accommodate a range of tastes in the theme selection. If you find a phpbb theme you prefer, I can see if it will work with our site. For just the situation that you mention, there is the Elegance theme, which...

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I don't use forum's default theme. It makes me crazy seeing the title of the first post above all and every reply,.... One of the reasons this is done in most of the themes is that you can change the title of individual posts within a thread. I used to use the Breeze theme too, but for those times ...

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Color blind test Color blind test Color blind test So far all those colors are distinguishable to me. If possible, please avoid using green in the future. I will have a hard time with that and the red. Green is only used to identify the administrator, who never posts. Thanks for cluing me in, I'll ...

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Emotions can be hard to read in print. So we added the sarcasm font . And then sometimes it's nice to separate opinion from other stuff, so we added the opinion font . And after my latest rant, I decided probably the most needed emotion fonts is the rant font . To use them you have to be in the main...

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Roopinder posted something on engineering.com where he quoted me. Interesting read.

https://www.engineering.com/story/dassa ... solidworks

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jcapriotti wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 1:13 pm Damn I'm slow, I thought he was serious until I read it a second time and caught the subtly of his last sentences.

Yeah, me too. I wasn't sure until the end. Wow, they could use a sarcasm font!

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DennisD wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:46 am As in, "Is that a big hard drive in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Your post is spot-on, @matt!!

I need to add a new text color for </rant> How about red?

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I think they are misinterpreting information that they are getting from somewhere. Someone told them "kids use phones, not desktops". So in their minds, they hear "CAD must move to phones". Stats for my site and every product development site I know show 90%+ of traffic comes fro...

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My guess, is that someone in the higher anarchy takes a look on here every now and then, and he just so happened to see the thread you made which is what caused the cancellation before it even started. Yeah, that's what somebody else thought. I'm not sure why people with something better to do (lik...

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Huh. I guess I'm confused, although I'm not sure why. Am I confused that the session was cancelled last minute because someone finally bothered to read what it was or am I confused that it was scheduled in the first place because no one bothered to read what it was about? In any case, that was a mis...

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I think he answered it quite well when he said something to the effect that the desktop computer will go away. The whole song over and over was "Quit thinking SW and the Platform are different things, they are one and the same." Well, that sums it up quite well. If something requires that...

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... what made them come to the conclusion that they would be better off having a user forum that is independant from them. SW/DS didn't choose to have an independent forum. I hope people don't get the idea that I am working for them or this site is linked/controlled by them in any way. I set it up ...

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:05 am Could somebody please share a link to the presentation?

Also, what time is the presentation...? I'd like to attend it.

https://3dexperienceworld.com/session-c ... billeter#/

There's probably some sort of sign up.

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Steve Billeter is giving a virtual presentation this afternoon at the 3dx convention. He will be mentioning this forum, actually comparing it in some respects to the SWYM. So, we may see an influx of traffic this afternoon. I don't know what's going to happen, but Steve is doing this as a pre-record...

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SolidMuse wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 6:53 pm Wonder if you need to break up the Catia forum into two flavors...

One for Catia v5 and the other for Catia v6/3DExperience.

There is a difference between the two versions.

Ha, yeah. We'll see if anyone shows up. We can subdivide if we need to later.

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For me, the big slow downs have been in order from biggest to smaller:

- Lost references
- waiting for decisions about the product or process
- getting clarifications on technical details

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Does it go away if you turn off Instant3D?

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Are there any IronCAD users out there? I've got a 30 day license and I'm wading through some of the videos. Some are better than others. I came across some terms I'd like to know more about. "Innovative" vs "Structured". This seems to be like Solid Edge Synchronous vs Ordered or ...

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I have added 3 new CAD forums: NX - after the Solid Edge because we do get people who discuss NX from time to time. IronCAD - because I'm going to be looking into this program for the next month or so. Catia/3DX - because it was requested, and I'm a little curious about both the software and about h...

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Uh, yeah, we could create one. You're the first to ask. I know some of us would be curious about your new tools. Yeah, I'll set up a Catia forum. Please tell us your story. I know many will be curious.

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Hey, I noticed the pic viewer add in doesn't seem to be working. I don't see the left and right arrows when I open a pic and I now have to click the "back" button on the browser to exit the pic instead of just clicking beside the pic. Edit to add: I don't know if that has something to do ...

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berg_lauritz wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 4:23 pm add display data mark.png

seems to work now

That's because your image is small. If it were over 1000 pixels, it would probably fail. Could you test that and let me know?

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Ok, it looks like images over 1000 px wide are getting the problem. If anyone sees something different, please say something.

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Has anyone had any issues with anything other than pasting images into the full editor window?

...mmm ok, now drag and drop error too... but not all the time...

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Looks like there's an error with pasting images, although I did this earlier today.

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I've been getting that all day too. @matt did a system update this weekend ( https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=1659 ). Maybe loading pics got broke? Pix should be ok. I added one earlier, here's another... oops. Http error. Give me a minute.... ****Moving this error discussion to the What's ...

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There's also this one at the top. I guess it depends on which theme you're using.

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If you experienced a hiccup on CADForum.net on saturday Jan 29 ~6pm EST, I was performing a system update. It took about 30 minutes.

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That depends heavily @Glenn Schroeder , I think. Might be safer to say start with some relation to a stable reference. That reference might be the standard planes, or a reference / layout sketch, reference planes, etc. I used to spell out the most stable objects in the CAD model for people. The Sol...

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I would say things like: - trying to make SW work like some other program, like Acad or Inventor - not setting up a good file naming system - newbies probably need experienced help for this - not getting professional help setting up Toolbox, templates, libraries, favorites - becoming too reliant on ...

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Please forgive my ignorance, but there's no legend, I don't know what I'm looking at. You can just think of it as activity over time. The time scale is at the bottom. Each data point represents activity for a given day. The bottom purple plot is daily activity, as you can see it has a weekly cycle,...

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image.png It's clear that something is happening somewhere. We are getting a lot of additional traffic in the last two months. This doesn't have anything to do with my recent post, the date of the up-tick starts in early December 2021, and appears to have shifted gears Jan 10. There's usually some ...

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