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MJuric

Contact Rick. His company is great at dealing with unpredictability on inconsistency. Sounds like you need contracted workers. If we get the projects we would definitely need contractors. The hard part is finding one that can actually do the work. Been involved in several cases where that was not t...

MJuric

When can I start??? Note the "May have a need" portion of my post. Right now we are low on Engineers and Big on having several "Potential" jobs coming in. To make matters even less predictable the company has in the last four months made a "Shift in direction we are taking ...

MJuric

SPerman wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:13 am What could possibly go wrong with a system like that in today's climate?

I think it could only exist under some pretty heavy moderation and stringent rules. If you made it like an open comment or voting scenario it would devolve into a complete cluster in no time.

MJuric

If you want referrals for people who design injection molds, I can send you some names. Not looking for injection molds but may have an upcoming need for competent machine tool designers, detailers and checkers....which is what triggered this thought. I know that this is an issue around the industr...

MJuric

I don't do LinkedUp, Fartbook, or Twatter. IMHO, the dudes bragging up their skills on social media are likely the ones wearing skinny jeans and a knit beanie and riding a foldup scooter (like in the Autodesk ads). The arrogant attitude comes free. [/rant] Which is the reason for having others &quo...

MJuric

I don't know what it is about companies over a certain size that lose the ability to make good decisions. I think once you start putting people in charge of projects that don't know anything about the customers, that's where it starts becoming bad news for everyone. I'm not sure this is a "Siz...

MJuric

This is what I like to call "progress for the sake of progress". I always use ye olde website standard of McMaster-Carr as an example. Virtually unchanged for 2 decades because they know who their customers are and will continue to be....people who need to get shite done in an expedient f...

MJuric

Carrie is getting closer to what I had in mind. Model organization is vital regardless of platform. Assembly design techniques also are a good example. Top-down design and in-context design principles are universal. So is use of layout sketches. As I stated earlier I think a good portion of this is...

MJuric

one thing when doing an interview to someone, is maybe ask for a "test" (in the first or second meeting with him). and in that "test", it's important to create it to get inside some case study, need in 3d, need in 2d, with some "trap" if needed, and keep that test not ...

MJuric

first point, it's important to remind somthing : people who use "social media" is a total bad word. because it's not managed by the country social departement. the correct word is "private company who will sell your datas and do tons of ads, and after offer the possibility to dicuss-...

MJuric

I'm wondering if something like I'm about to describe exists in one form or another. I have in one form or another been involved with acquiring and or hiring resources (Engineering, CNC Programming, Machinist) for the last almost 30 years. Over that time frame there has been a few problems that have...

MJuric

I've forgotten more about what I knew than what I know now. I was thinking about this the other day. I opened an Excel spreadsheet that I had done in 2006. It had some things in it that I know I did....but I'll be damned if I know how I did them grumph I wonder exactly how much I've forgotten over ...

MJuric

What should go into a book about CAD that is CAD-agnostic? What principles transcend CAD applications? Doesn't that devolve into a discussion of design and engineering principles? CAD is merely a tool to implement design and engineering. Once you remove the "How" of a particular CAD syste...

MJuric

I've been involved with sand casting issues for years. Biggest issues have been from castings from China. However, there have been issues with castings the company I worked for has poured as well, which I think sometimes has to deal with if they are using purchased ingot or re-melted castings. From...

MJuric

maybe SW uses the direction of plane, that's why it's important in DOT settings to have two different colors, (i use green and red) even a sketch line, or a geometric-axe has a direction, even if we can't see it... Which is why I don't understand why it so often is wrong particularly when working w...

MJuric

as Fred mentioned,....it does sounds like a harder outer shell layer (skin) on the casting - sand ...apply moisturizing cream😄 At present it looks like we've chosen "Avoid those vendors" which leaves us with only one for hundreds of castings which does not leave me with warm and fuzzies. ...

MJuric

Maybe this song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk I'm only 52 but my brain is littered with lyrics from the 30's thru the 50's. My mothers sisters, she is the third to youngest of 12, used to bring their boyfriends home and have my mother sing songs for them. The end result was that my e...

MJuric

"There are not enough YouTube videos to fix stupidity." Especially since so many Youtube Videos are actually creating a good portion of that stupidity. It's like saying we don't have enough news outlet to keep people informed...well that's because most of the news outlets we have are actu...

MJuric

Even though I clearly thought this person was insane, they were very impressed that "It's a whole business solution rather than just a CAD tool... To me 3DEXPERIENCE is a dream come true... really excited about the solution as we have already seen incredible opportunities for business to impro...

MJuric

Why is SW so ignorant about directions of extrusions. Why is the default not always away from the material. I'd say the majority of the time SW purposefully extrudes sheet metal right into the other parts.

MJuric

RMcHugh wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 11:12 am Try this one: https://www.cadforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=280

That's what I was looking for. Thanks

MJuric

Has someone started a "Why" post like there used to be in the other forum? I searched for "why" and got "That's to common" Why does SW insist that it's going to extrude sheet metal into material instead of away from material? Seems like it should know that 99% of the ti...

MJuric

Maybe I'm picky, but I always say "Delete is not an editing method." if there were configurations or equations or design tables all that deleting would surely mess something up. I didn't get much past this myself. Deleting all the mates may be fine if you have two parts....not really an o...

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matt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:48 pm Which CAD system is it for?

Good lord I am getting old. I just signed up and I can't remember. I think Siemens Solid edge. They asked how long you have been using SW and then have you ever used "X" and I can't remember what "X" is. I just know my answer was no

MJuric

My main machine is a 15" laptop too. I use a docking station and a couple monitors. The portrait monitor is for the forum, email, full length portraits... The landscape is for CAD, and the actual laptop screen is for misc. image.png What kind of docking station? Have you ever used a docking st...

MJuric

I'm soon to start a new work-from-home job using Solidworks on a laptop supplied by the customer. After a few months of using CAD of various flavours on a 15" laptop, my eyes are complaining. I'd like to connect a monitor to the laptop so that I can keep my e-mail etc on the laptop and use CAD...

MJuric

AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:21 pm We're all sending in our applications!

Seriously though, I did!

Me too. If someone wants to give me $100 gift card for talking and playing with a CAD system for an hour while sitting in the comfort of my home...I'm in.

MJuric

And yet, the twentieth century was the bloodiest in human history. () I always thought this was an odd statement considering the brutality of our history....so I did some digging. Yes, by pure number of deaths the 20th century was bloodiest century by quite a bit. However when you start looking at ...

MJuric

Thanks for the suggestion Matt! I work at projekt202, a consulting firm in Dallas. We help companies shape the design and development of software experiences. You can check us out at projekt202.com. The purpose of the interview is to understand how SolidWorks users transition to a different CAD sof...

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Anyone heard that they were able to extract oxygen off of the surface of Mars? That's rather interesting! I'm more fascinated by the idea that it took us 200K years to figure out how to fly and then a mere 100 years to figure out how to fly on another freakin' planet. The advancement rate we are mo...

MJuric

The "server" was the Plasma programmer's machine with a CAD folder on it. Inside that folder was a folder named OLD MODELS. Along with the models and drawings, saved in project folders, was a folder named OLD OLD MODELS. Inside that folder along with the models was a folder named OLD OLD ...

MJuric

Sorry to hear that Tony. I hope he recovers quickly. It's strange how some families have been hit really hard and some get away virtually scot-free.... :? I hope as we move the study of this disease along that they do more genetic related research. There seems to be such a massive divide with littl...

MJuric

Agreed. Designers and drafters make mistakes. We are human. I am the one here who decides who we use for fixture manufacture and machining (not product machining). If a supplier sees a drawing that is missing a dimension or has a tolerance like the one described and just makes a guess and sends me ...

MJuric

And that behavior may be the reason why they will put tighter than necessary tolerances on everything from that day on. Either one could have picked up the phone... Which is a ridiculous knee jerk response to ones own error. Maybe it required tighter tolerance or maybe if should have been changed t...

MJuric

I'm assuming cadforum.net is a subdomain of dezignstuff.com. In any case if this is even close to reality....wow! Up 4.72 Million places in the last 90 days?

MJuric

matt wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 11:35 am There was some evidence of hacking.

Man, DSS must be really nervous to pull a Russian "Solar Winds" on you.

MJuric

Remember we start voting on images tomorrow, so get your entry in tonight. For those of you on the other side of the world, I'm not sure if you're ahead of us or behind us, so we'll play that one by ear. Tomorrow +/- a day or so. Did you ever have any luck fixing the image not showing issue? I'm st...

MJuric

Anyone have any tips, tricks or advice working with Solid Edge step file into SolidWorks? I have to work with a step file from another cad user made in Solid Edge. I can open the file but it has some errors and nothing is fixed or mated. Also the assembly is oriented vertical not horizontal on scre...

MJuric

Its getting close. 3 positive at work. Just found out on Sunday that my brother and his wife are both Covid-19 positive. :( Lady I work with came in a week ago last Tuesday. Thought she was having allergy issues as it's allergy season and she gets them very bad every year. She was worse on Wednesda...

MJuric

Question......what happens in a greenhouse? Plants grow very well, right? Which removes CO2 from the air, right? Hint, hint.......equilibrium. :lol: As long as you have enough plants to pull out all the CO2 being added. Seal up a greenhouse and keep the same amount of plants in there and then start...

MJuric

Why don't we kill 2 birds with 1 stone. You posted that article about the problem with all the plastic garbage we generate...and I suggested just launching it into space...that could solve this problem, too... I know it sounds, you know, looney....why aren't we planting a $@it load of trees? A tril...

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Why don't we kill 2 birds with 1 stone. You posted that article about the problem with all the plastic garbage we generate...and I suggested just launching it into space...that could solve this problem, too... I know it sounds, you know, looney....why aren't we planting a $@it load of trees? A tril...

MJuric

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9392641/Bill-Gates-wants-spray-millions-tonnes-CHALK-stratosphere.html Could dimming the sun help to cool the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of CHALK into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and slow global warming - but critics ...

MJuric

Perusing the Inventor forums seems to show IV users upset that they aren't getting many updates and Fusion is. I guess us SolidWorks users could claim the same though. IV is a more mature product and you wouldn't expect it to have as many updates as a new product like Fusion. IV users are just like...

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It's cheap now to get people on board but I'd expect it to be more in line with their other offerings as time goes on. Inventor is $2190 annually so if Fusion 360 eventually replaces it, why would it cost that much less? For comparison, Onshape starts at $1500 annually Do you think Fusion 360 is su...

MJuric

The groups function is really meant to assign permissions, like you do in pdm. In fact, this whole admin backside is very much like pdm. Minus the files. Mostly just meta data and permissions. Right now I'm just using two groups - admin and registered users. I'm thinking of re-instating the newly r...

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It seems all pictures placed inline are now attached instead of embedded into the post. 2021-04-16 12_26_58.jpg And sometimes when I click on them I get a notice saying "The selected attachment no longer exists". This is also the case for non-picture attachments like PDFs. Is anyone else ...

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I am looking for a realistic method to represent a suspension and springs on a trailer for use in simulation. In the screen shot below I have the tongue on a roller slider and the center hangers of the suspension fixed. I then placed springs under the outer two suspension hangers. I don't think tha...

MJuric

This would be an acceptable tool for large scale manufacturing. It has no applicability to one-off designs, IMHO. All I make are one-off products. This fundamentally affects how everything is handled at every business stage, including design and documentation. Mostly, I believe that the inclusion o...

MJuric

To quote Jerry Seinfeld, is this anything ? Seriously, this is how our tax dollars R&D dollars are spent? Good for Dassault. Slow clap for providing a stunning solution in search of a problem. <()> 2021-04-14 20_28_48.jpg I just played with it and I don't really think it gives you much more inf...

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