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    3D CAD system

    I have heard that UGS plans to release NX4 for Linux before the end of the year.
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    curve equations

    Here is a site that as some equations and history of some famous curves. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html
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    3D-Scanning / Digitizing advice needed??????

    JArcuri, We had a company called Advanced Vehicle Engineer (AVE) help us with sort of thing. They use a white light camera set-up. We had them scan full size body sides. I know they have scanned whole cars for some NASCAR teams as well as for the Big 3. I also know they have done this exact...
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    Layer Standards

    The layering Standard at GM is: 1 - Solid, Part 2 - Wireframe, Part 3 - Centerline, Part 4 - Theoretical 5 - Section 6 - Developmental 7 - Mate 8 - Criteria 253, 254 - Drawing Format & Annotation Categories: SOLID: Solids and sheet bodies required to define the part. WIREFRAME: Lines and...
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    headphone to telephone adaptor

    Ok, so I tried the simple route. I cut apart a cheap Y-spliter for headphones and wired the female jacks to a RJ-11 jack. I unplug the handset (receiver) and it's plug is smaller than an RJ-11 but the clip geometry is the same and the pins line up. So after a bit of trial and error I figured out...
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    headphone to telephone adaptor

    I thinking of piecing together of quick adaptor so that I able to plug my stereo headphones in place of my phones handset. I wondering if it is just as easy as buying a RJ-11, stereo plugs and wiring the right connectors together? I’m wondering if there will be an impedance problem or if I’ll...
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    GRIP Programs & UFUNC/Execute

    Here is my view of the GRIP, UFUNC/API, Knowledge Fusion tools GRIP: Ben said BASIC-like, I would say more FORTRAN-like, but that is just semantics. GRIP is good for automating simple, strait forward tasks. A rule of thumb would be if you can draw a flow chart on a single piece of paper...
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    command syntax in GRIP

    I remember using a unite in a GRIP function for a program I wrote back about nine versions ago and it worked fine. It model a bent bar using cylinders and spheres. Now, I'd use the Tube function but that was not around at time. Anyway, a quick look at GRIP Manual shows the Command...
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    Section Curve color

    Thanks for the help. The view sectioning will do the job for now but I'd still like be to do more then one section at a time like with section curve. I knew that view sectioning could create curves but I thought that it would just used the section curve function has the icon is the same...
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    Section Curve color

    Hello, I'm using the Section Curve function to cut sections thru a number of bodies in an assembly. I like for the resulting curves to be the same color as the body it is a section of. Is there some setting the I can't seem to find or tip to do this? I could write a GRIP program to cycle thru...
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