The last "John Baker" show
The last "John Baker" show
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joycejo (Aerospace)
(OP)
On Nov. 12th at the North East Regional User Group meeting. John Baker gave what will most likely be his last public presentation at a PLM World activity. Below are the links to see this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKyD9vL74fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhSEaqE-6vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6w2HEP4CJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-pjsrPPWUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZp2vxdu2TQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvuTMx8C3iI
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKyD9vL74fQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhSEaqE-6vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6w2HEP4CJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-pjsrPPWUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZp2vxdu2TQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvuTMx8C3iI
Enjoy
John Joyce
Manufacturing Engineer
Senior Aerospace CT





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He will be missed, so the best of luck to him and his family.
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Thanks for all the tips and all the other advise
I hope you stay fit & healthy for a long, long time and I wish you all the best & family time !!
Older budweiser
NX8.5 & NX9.0 64bit, hp z820
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Your advice and input on NX has been invaluable to us.
Best regards
Martin Purshouse
Steinhobel Design
South Africa
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27 years of UG/NX for me.
NX 9.0.3.4
NX 10.0.3.5 (Testing)
Windows 7 64 (Windows 8.1 Tablet)
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Bill Triffet
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and i am still learning from him..
Thank you for answer our questions .. best regards John
______
Alex ,
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Hi
John
I saw you in those films in my acquaintance with you. From what I read in this forum
Strengthened for the better.
You have fun and friendly personality.
I join all wishes that appear here. Greetings.
In one of the threads about a TWIST_BODY.prt you suggest to do it with Sheet Metal
and You were right.
Here I post I enclose what you meant.
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To all the people who have responded to this thread, thank you for the kind words.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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My best wishes.
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I believe it's a safe bet to assume that John is the most thanked NX user in the world.
www.cadroad.com
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Big loss to NX community..John was a great help for many years.
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What's below it is just a joke.
www.cadroad.com
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This truly is the end of an era for UG/NX/Siemens....
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Thanks Jonh for all your tips, advices, for your implication.
Best wishes for you and your family, in this new "step" of your live. ENJOY IT!!!
MR76
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All the best, Carl
www.jcb.com
NX 8.5 with TC 8.3
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Thank you so much!
I hope that you can enjoy your last days and retirement,
Maybe you can left some contact to keep us alive!
Regards!
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Thanks Jonh for all your tips and advices
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www.cadroad.com
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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You have been always kind and helpful.
All the best.
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Thanks for your advice along the way, you will surely be missed.
Enjoy your retirement!
Rick D
Win7 64 bit w/NX9.0.3.4 MP9 and NX10.0.3
Vericut 7.4
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You will be missed on here for sure.
Be well and enjoy the next phase of your life!
Dave
Automotive Tooling / Aircraft Tooling / Ground Support Structures
NX9, Win 7 Pro SP1
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Smitty
www.changes-consulting.com
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Thanks for all the help.
Enjoy your retirement!
Any chance you can post your 2-part video on the history of unigraphics?
Thanks again for everything!
Kevin
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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In the past couple of years I had the chance to have some constructive dialogue with you to iron out some differences and definitely they brought some good results. (At the same time sorry for the miscommunications too) I see many of my ERs based on those dialogues are being implemented in new NX.
Thank you again, and wish you all the best!
Michael Fernando (CSWE)
www.solidCADworks.com
Tool and Die Designer
Siemens NX V9.0 + PDW
SWX 2013 SP3.0 X64
PDMWorks 2013
Logopress3
FastForm Advance
FormatWorks
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take care, and thanks many timeshttp://www.eng-tips.com/
Freelance 3D ENGINEER
www.f-dh.be
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Alex
Design Drafter
Orbital Atk
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I was 4 times at the Beta Tests. 3 times in Cypress (this year + 2 + 3 years ago).
It took a while for me to link THE JohnRBaker to your person
I wish you all the Best! Enjoy your retirement!
Thomas
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By the why could you please post the files you talked about in the video, to show the user's most recent commentsHi John, I want to thank you for your help. I have posted only a few times and your help has saved me from banging my head against the wall. I really appreciate that you take the time to explain the reasons why NX works like it does. You will be missed!
By the why could you please post the files you talked about in the video, to show the user's most recent actions on the bottom bar of NX.
I wish you all the best!
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And thank you for the kind words.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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There's a bunch of material at http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209. A lot of this was contributed by John Baker, except for the early stuff, which was before his time. Presumably this material forms the foundation for the secret videos.
Also, there's David Weisberg's e-book at http://www.cadhistory.net, which covers UG and other CAD systems.
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I've been cleaning out my office and going through about 27 years of stuff (my first 8 years with the company are stashed away in some boxes in my garage at home but I won't get to them until well after I retire) and thought that I might share some of the more interesting things that I've been sorting through.
Most of you are aware that I travel a lot (I've got over 3.6 million miles with American Airlines alone), attending conferences, visiting customers, speaking at user group meetings and the such. Anyway, here's my collection of airline boarding passes:
Of course, if you're going to traveling that much, you must be staying in hotels. Well here's a stack of hotel card keys (the stack probably doesn't cover all of the last 27 years because I don't think cards keys have been around that long):
And where was it that I was going on these trips? As I stated earlier, mostly conferences, trade fairs, users groups, etc, and of course at events like this, you get badges and name tags:
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this bit of nostalgia. I know I did, even though it's been a bit hard to throw away stuff like this that in many ways are more representative of what I've been doing these last 35+ years, that is interacting with people in business settings all over the world yet at the some time forming friendships which have lasted decades in some cases, and recently many new ones as I made this last year's tour of regional users meetings.
P.S. I may have some other stuff to share before my last day on the job, which is two weeks from today.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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At home I've got a map of the world that shows all the places that I've traveled which also includes pins for the 33 countries that I've visited while on company business (like I said, I've flown over 3.6 million miles with American Airlines alone).
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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And here's some items to inspire you:
Anyway, enjoy.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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regarding the North American map above,
I guess (?) that I can read your needles as sort of equivalent to manufacturing industry. Isn't it interesting from a geographical perspective how sparse the needles actually are in the center of the US. there are a quite a number of states completely without needles, which i would interpret as "there is no such industry that would use NX here" ( those areas could also be "hostile territory", dominated by a competitor. hm).
Thanks for all help over the years!
If i know you right(?), you will stop by these forums also after the retirement ?!
Regards,
Tomas
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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So this might well be my last post here, at least as a Siemens employee (I guess I'll have to change my signature), unless of course someone posts a question or problem that I can help them with before I leave (YES, I intend to put in a full day's work before I'm forced to turn in my keys, badge, credit cards and my laptop).
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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Thanks for all the tips over the years.
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Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community..
To the Toolmaker, your nice little cartoon drawing of your glass looks cool, but your solid model sucks. Do you want me to fix it, or are you going to take all week to get it back to me so I can get some work done?
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www.cadroad.com
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Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB
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nonetheless have read almost every post and watched every NX related video you have made available here.
Your teachings are helping me put bread on my table… like literally....
I pray God will bless you with long lasting good health for many years to come.
Thank you very much John for every hour you have dedicated preparing material to educate individuals like me
that you have never met in person.
Happy retirement!!!
Mario Castro.
NX 8.5
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Congratulations
Thanks for all tips
Happy retirement
what we gonna do without you...
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Wish you a nice and relaxing time after retirement(which has already begun).By the time i got your "last day at work post" on internal forum it was too late for me.
With Best Regards and Respect
Kapil
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I feel like I have been on UG so long, I should retire with you. LOL
I do with you and yours a happy, satisfying retirement!
You have helped me through the years and made me look "good" when I didn't know how to do UG.
God bless,
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I first met you over 30 years ago in Cypress when I came in for a demo of UGII. Over the years we have shared stories and helped each other grow and develop our knowledge of the software.
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
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John R. Baker, P.E.
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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First day without a boss (at the office that is
I hope you have a good, healthy, happy retirement John. Thanks again for all you did for us
Older budweiser
NX8.5 & NX9.0 64bit, hp z820
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Fishing ? Hotrods ? Stamp collecting ?
Did you get a permanent NX license from Siemens ?
Regards,
Tomas
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http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=402448
As for the 'NX license', I didn't ask and none was offered.
John R. Baker, P.E.
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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John, thank you for the years of great support! Have a great retirement!
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Regards,
Fred
7.5/8.5/9.0/10.0
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Don't retire yet - I have a challenging question for you, born of a very odd situation . . .
I am supposed to do some animation of a lineup of machinery that will be built by marrying together machines made by various manufacturers. That entails me receiving either .STEP or .IGS files from the various manufacturers that I can import into my animation software of choice - Autodesk SHOWCASE. I have received models from most of the manufacturers, except one . . . they refuse to send me their models because anything they send would have dimensions associated with it. They consider their dimensions to be proprietary and will let no one have access to that info. They design with NX.
I don't use NX and can't advise them on a method to export their models with dimensions suppressed such that no one else can access the the dimensions. Can you offer any advice or a workaround ?
Thanks,
Mercury BDS
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And i'd have to say... if you don't get a life long license of NX, to quote a wrap song, "the wolds gone craaaaaazy" ;)
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You should start a new thread for this question.
No dimensions will be associated if they use formats like parasolid or JT. The parasolid format only supports geometry, No annotations/ dimensions.
The JT format can contain PMI, if that exist on the original model.
But if it doesn't, then there will be no dimensions.
If this company is afraid of that you can measure their geometry, ask them to supply you with a STL file, then the accuracy is permanently gone...
Regards,
Tomas
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Hey thanks a million. Sorry for the etiquette stumble.
Mercury BDS