That's a great list @MJuric . I frequently run out to the floor and measure tools to see if we have a certain size drill already in stock, or if a standard ER32 toolholder will clear a sidewall, or if a standard tap will reach XX deep, or what the corner rad is on CCMT32.50.5 inserts....you get the...

Solid Edge and Solidworks both appear to open reference files only by the file name stored in the parent file, NOT by the full path. For the life of me I cannot figure out how this is a good idea. What a mess this creates. Side note, I understand duplicate file names are bad bad bad, but letting th...

@burhop started to ask a question about what we all thought the future of CAD held for us. To me the biggest future advances in CAD will be in the HMI. Our brains and the software(s) we use can can move at speeds FAR faster than the by comparison, TERRIBLE, interface we are stuck with. Along with t...

-Support is better and faster. Wow, that really shocks me. When I was on IV one of the worst aspects was support. VARS didn't respond unless you had 50 seats or more and it was like dealing with an appliance company. "If we come out and it's something under warranty it's free, if it's somethin...

From what I read, it's a combinations of Trump tariffs on Chinese goods combined with reduced production due to Covid. So hopefully this year we can all get back to somewhat normal. After working at home for a year, our office is opening next month. I find this all entirely odd. China has been open...

This is on and off topic I suppose. Does anyone have any information on when the massive shortage in all things video cards will seem to end? I was looking at building a new system several months ago and decided I would go with something that was "Non Quadro". However over the last six mon...

matt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 5:22 pm Done. In the Off-Topic area.

Cool, now do any of you have a Quadro RTX 4000 you've used for a week and are upgrading that you'd like to unload for $50?

I generally run my stuff into the ground but I know alot of companies and individuals try to update regularly leaving a whole lot of still useable equipment out there. Not sure if this is a big enough market but sure would be nice to be able to get someones old video card of they upgraded and you we...

Rick... lol I actually had some of the upper graders tell me to say to the teacher FU - they had some explaining to do, she figured out who said what, that something a 5 or 6 year old just doesn't come up with on their own, they hear it, they'll say it.... reminisce Maybe back when you were a kid. ...

The list of things that "CAD" people do to make parts more difficult, more expensive or just down right impossible to make is fairly endless. Well, then that sounds like a great place to start a great discussion. Educate some CAD users! :D Here's a few 1) Always think "How is that go...

Like 0.06" rad on all internal and external corners? I programmed and help make a part out of a solid chunk of 316SS. Hard to describe but it had .03-.06 rad essentially everywhere there was a corner. The part had a bunch of "Ears" on it that formed a pocket of sorts. In one area the...

My personal experience in CAM is pretty narrow, but I'd love to see more CAM related stuff, and in particular what CAD people can do to make CAM work better and give better results. Maybe you could start out by writing something about that? What sorts of things do CAD operators do that make you wan...

Here since the buyout, (by www.wyrmwoodgaming.com), no one cares about engineering, basically doesn't understand or comprehend that it takes an Engineering dept to get this thing right, but no, their basic way is Neanderthal at best. SW is too expensive, Fusion 360 is their go to product - Is there...

As I stated over on the other forum it has been my experience that the best and longest lasting forums have a pretty robust off topic sub forum. This allows the "Gurus" to do something other than sit around and answer the same question over and over again. However, also in my experience th...

to see some more active CAM stuff...because I'm selfish. Somehow I was moved from my design only position to something closer to "Continuous improvement". My first big continuous improvement is to attempt to reorganizing the wreak of a programming system we have here to something more rese...

This forum even as a "block poster" option and it's even aptly named "Manage Foes". FWIW I would agree with some of the comments on the SW forum, not sure how you'd ever get traffic here. CAn you just port all the posts from over there to here so at least when someone searches th...

Just curious if this is "Stuff that is not CAD related" off topic or the real down and dirty people get their feelings hurt off topic.