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The last "John Baker" show
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The last "John Baker" show

The last "John Baker" show

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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


John Joyce
Manufacturing Engineer
Senior Aerospace CT

RE: The last "John Baker" show

I saw John a month ago At The Wisconsin/Chicago RUG meeting.
He will be missed, so the best of luck to him and his family.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Is he retiring?

RE: The last "John Baker" show

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Yes, in 57 days, but who's counting winky smile

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

This thread will become a long one thumbsup2

Thanks for all the tips and all the other advise bow.
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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

All the best for the future John.
Your advice and input on NX has been invaluable to us.
Best regards
Martin Purshouse
Steinhobel Design
South Africa

RE: The last "John Baker" show

John, all the best for the future, I most sincerely appreciate your help over the years.

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)

RE: The last "John Baker" show

I've been an NC programmer starting at v13. John has provided years of awesome help. Best of luck in your next phase of life John!

Bill Triffet

RE: The last "John Baker" show

I would like to say that i learned several tricks from John
and i am still learning from him..

Thank you for answer our questions .. best regards John

______

Alex ,

RE: The last "John Baker" show


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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Yes, I remember the part. Glad that my suggestion helped.

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

bowbowbow
My best wishes.

thanks2

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Happy retirement, John!

I believe it's a safe bet to assume that John is the most thanked NX user in the world. smile

www.cadroad.com

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Best of luck John.

Big loss to NX community..John was a great help for many years.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Why "the last" ?? Just because he's retiring doesn't mean he can't go to PLM World conferences any more. If the PLM World committee invites him, he might go and do a show. And, actually, the shows might be better if he were no longer a Siemens employee.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Have fun John. Enjoy life.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

One John's quote from this forum I liked so much that I put in on my wall. smile
What's below it is just a joke. glasses



www.cadroad.com

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Thanks for the Tips and inputs John. It has helped us many many times. Whom ever follows the bar is set pretty darn high. Enjoy your family that you hold so close to your heart. Thanks again!

RE: The last "John Baker" show

thanks for all your help over the years, Enjoy your retirement.
This truly is the end of an era for UG/NX/Siemens....

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Joining this:

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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Thanks for your help with various tricky problems John, all the best for your well earned retirement!

All the best, Carl

www.jcb.com
NX 8.5 with TC 8.3

RE: The last "John Baker" show

John,

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!bigglasses

Regards!

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Enjoy your retirement.
Thanks Jonh for all your tips and advices bow

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Thank you John for all of your great presentations and sermon's over the many, many years. Best of Luck to you and you family!

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Regarding the video at the start of the thread - is Ctrl-Tab window already in NX10?

www.cadroad.com

RE: The last "John Baker" show

NO, the new 'Switch Window' function, using 'Ctrl-Tab', is being introduced with NX 11.0, which will be released in the Spring.

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Hi John,
You have been always kind and helpful.
All the best.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Hi John,

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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

What are guys like me going to do without this guy!?

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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

John,

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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

One of the people in our group is editing the raw video and it will eventually be posted on-line, unfortunately it will be on a site only accessible to Siemens employees. Note that I have no real say in this matter.

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Thank you Johntiphat; surly we will miss you greatly. Hope you will continue to check these forums to see how we are doing and share some of your valuable thoughts to bring us to the correct path.

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


RE: The last "John Baker" show

Thanks John for all of the help over the years! Happy Retirement!

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Good luck John, thanks for all the help!!!

Alex

Design Drafter
Orbital Atk

RE: The last "John Baker" show

John,

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 smile

I wish you all the Best! Enjoy your retirement!

Thomas

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Hi 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 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!

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Yes, attached is a zip file containing the files and the instructions on how to make the last 10 commands accessible from the Bottom Border Bar.

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

On the history of UG (and NX, too, but UG, mostly) ...

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

I hope that the powers-that-be will not object, but since this thread was already here and since it was inspired by events soon to transpire, I thought it would 'borrow' it for a little fun.

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Here's another way to represent 35 years with the company, or as you can see, many companies, but in the end it has been the same basic core organization, at least from where I've been sitting:

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Well I'm making progress on cleaning out my office and thought I'd post a few more tidbits. For example, this map pin-points all the places in North America that I've visited over the past 35+ year while on company business:



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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Then there's my 'white board' which as you can see has many uses.



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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

John,
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 ?! smile

Regards,
Tomas

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Well there are customers out there but I've never had a need to visit any of them although it is true that they are not large operations and when you're up in areas like Wyoming and Montana there really aren't a lot of manufacturing sort of industries, but there's some and I'm sure that we've got a share of them.

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Well it has finally come, my last day at work. And I know it's true because when I woke this morning and looked at my iPhone, there it was, a calendar notice that I had set nearly a year ago: "My last day at work!"

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

May you have a long and happy retirement!

Thanks for all the tips over the years.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Congratulations on your retirement...you've earned it..!

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?

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Congratulations, John! Enjoy your well-earned retirement!

www.cadroad.com

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Congratulations, John! Thanks for your time and contributions - you've helped all of us become better at what we do. Siemens has its work cut out filling your shoes.

Tim Flater
NX Designer
NX 9.0.3.4 Win7 Pro x64 SP1
Intel Xeon 2.53 GHz 6GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 2GB

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Hello from the other side, I am one of those members that rarely make or answer a post,
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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Hi john
Congratulations
Thanks for all tips

Happy retirement

what we gonna do without you...

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Hi John,
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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

John,

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,

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Congratulations John, may you and your wife have a long and happy retirement together. Visiting the children and, of course, the grandchildren will be fun and enjoyable.
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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

3
Thank you for all the kind words and yes, today is the first day that I officially DON'T have to go to work thumbsup2

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Wow, EX-Product 'Evangelist'

First day without a boss (at the office that is wink)
I hope you have a good, healthy, happy retirement John. Thanks again for all you did for usbdaycandle.

Older budweiser
NX8.5 & NX9.0 64bit, hp z820

RE: The last "John Baker" show

So, what's next John ?
Fishing ? Hotrods ? Stamp collecting ?

Did you get a permanent NX license from Siemens ? smile

Regards,
Tomas

RE: The last "John Baker" show

I don't fish, cars are just to get where I'm going and I save 'old money', not stamps. I am also into photography and have started a new thread dealing with that:

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.

RE: The last "John Baker" show

I'm sure this forum community is already considering buying you NX license. LOL
John, thank you for the years of great support! Have a great retirement!

RE: The last "John Baker" show

John, Thanks for all he help over the years and enjoy your retirement!

Regards,
Fred

7.5/8.5/9.0/10.0

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Dear Mr. Baker,

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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Contrats John!

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" ;)

RE: The last "John Baker" show

@mercurybds :
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

RE: The last "John Baker" show

Toost,

Hey thanks a million. Sorry for the etiquette stumble.

Mercury BDS

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