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2010 video rant

2010 video rant

2010 video rant

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Hi all,
I received the note from our VAR containing a slew of videos introducing 2010. I mean really, these videos show guys whipping thru stuff, animations showing entire machine operations and the usual "best possible condition" for the software to run in. I understand it is for sales but come on, does anyone really fly thru stuff with the apparent lack of real effort! I have a fairly hot machine with a load of years experience and I find some of the stuff too good to be true and highly unlikely in day to day design work. I couldnt even get a simple cam to move a linkage witout the herky-jerkyness let alone some of the stuff in the video.
Does look really good though!!
Sorry for the rant  

RE: 2010 video rant

Funny, I'm sure they practice the same thing over and over until everything's optimal. So by the time they're recording it, it appears easy smooth and lightning quick!

RE: 2010 video rant

Even without a lot of practice, demos and tutorials are always organized in a linear fashion.  ... unlike the way we think.  ... or at least, unlike the way _I_ think.

Just today, I generated a model, then decided I wanted to shell some of the primitives, then decided I wanted to shell some _other_ primitives, differently.  SW didn't like the order in which I (re)defined the primitives, using the rollback bar, etc.

Tomorrow maybe I will understand why it's having a problem, but it may be faster to start again and do the whole thing the way SW likes it.  I really hate being driven by my tools.

 

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

RE: 2010 video rant

This is true, with great power comes less flexibility. The best way to manage an assembly could come at the cost of animation, the fastest way to model a part could come at the cost of ease-of-editability and so on...

Although partially inevitable, I do feel this is an area that needs work in all MCAD software!

CSWP-Surf

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