Watercooler Talk

[Frederick_Law]

Forgotten child in the family.

[JSculley]

And not a single entry for Solidworks Treehouse.

Oh, it's there:

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The lists I posted are what you see if you search for 'block'. Because you can't see the Area and Sub-Area filters until you search for something.

What's fun is searching for 'Treehouse', and seeing the first result:

and then doing a search for 'wrong icons display' and having a bunch of results (including the one above), but the 'Treehouse' sub-area isn't listed. When you have a search with hundreds of results, narrowing it down is a real crap shoot.

It's pretty clear that the area and sub-area are whatever the VAR or SW support person put in, with no checks along the way or post-processing to add obvious area/sub-area entries based on the text of the report. Seems like every report with the word Treehouse in it ought to have 'Treehouse' as the area or sub-area, but alas, they do not.

[SPerman]

I have to wonder what their vision was, and how close they are to achieving it.

[Glenn Schroeder]

I have to wonder what their vision was, and how close they are to achieving it.

1. Have everyone on the cloud and dependent on Dassault to get their work done.

2. They still have a ways to go.

[Frederick_Law]

1. Have everyone on the cloud and dependent on Dassault to get their work done.

2. They still have a ways to go in a well looking up at the cloud.

[jcapriotti]

I have to wonder what their vision was, and how close they are to achieving it.

Dassault's vision:

[zwei]

Am i the only one that feel like SOLIDWORKS video had been getting more and more cringe... or am i just getting old...



It is a great enhancement though

[Frederick_Law]

LOL
SolidWorks was used in Medieval time to build castle and catapults.
Or they want to show how old SW technology is?

[bnemec]

Am i the only one that feel like SOLIDWORKS video had been getting more and more cringe... or am i just getting old...



It is a great enhancement though

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[zxys001]

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[zwei]

So...
i just got a brief pricing comparison between SOLIDWORKS Manage and PTC Windchill recently....
i am really surprise that the price difference is...ALOT
(I expect PTC stuff to be expensive...but not that expensive...)

[jcapriotti]

So...
i just got a brief pricing comparison between SOLIDWORKS Manage and PTC Windchill recently....
i am really surprise that the price difference is...ALOT
(I expect PTC stuff to be expensive...but not that expensive...)

Yes....quite a difference. Also, Manage licensing is floating so you can share across the organization. Windchill has many different module licenses and they are "named user" licenses. We ended up implementing a 90 license deactivation for user that haven't used a particular license in attempt to control cost.

Then there are implementation costs. Manage is complex, much more so than PDM.......but Windchill can make it look easy.

That said, Windchill is powerful and has a lot of options. The cost, complexity, and support just puts it out of reach for small and maybe some medium size companies.

[AlexLachance]

Been working for the last month on an off-road trailer for a client of ours. I'm about to finish it, can't wait to see it. The trailer won't be road legal, all the lights on it will be green so it will give it a pretty neat look. It's 12 feet wide and will be 17 and a half feet high from the ground, carrying roughly a load of 180 000 pounds. It's ridiculously oversized.

This is a really old picture of the first version we did of this trailer over 30 years ago, carrying it's load:

[Frederick_Law]

Oh, you're the one helped cutting all the trees down .....

[DanPihlaja]

Oh, you're the one helped cutting all the trees down .....

The western upper peninsula of Michigan is currently known as one of the most beautiful wooded areas in the united states.

That entire area was clear cut in the 1890's-1910's. There are pictures of the landscape being just stumps.

If that area can grow back and be state park wilderness, complete with wolves and moose....then the rest of the world is going to be fine. The earth takes care of itself.

[SPerman]

The earth takes care of itself.

Even if it has to get us out of the way to do it.

[jcapriotti]

Even if it has to get us out of the way to do it.

We seem to be perfectly capable of taking ourselves out. There's a Dilbert quote about our brains not having changed much in the last few 10's of thousands of years, yet we have all this power.

Back to logging.....sustainable logging is already done. We have have pine tree farms where they cut and replace. The bigger deal may be down in South America.....not so much for logging but clearing to create farmland.

[AlexLachance]

We seem to be perfectly capable of taking ourselves out. There's a Dilbert quote about our brains not having changed much in the last few 10's of thousands of years, yet we have all this power.

Back to logging.....sustainable logging is already done. We have have pine tree farms where they cut and replace. The bigger deal may be down in South America.....not so much for logging but clearing to create farmland.

Natural selection is a beautiful thing, just look at all those willing to remove themselves of the gene pool to help with 'climate change'

There's lots of logging where I live and the landscapes are astounding. Most companies who do logging on a large scale actually have some sort of long-term plan where they cut down certain lands and have others growing and they just got back and forth through these. The biggest factor is how well the land is 'cleaned' after they've done a clean cut. When they let all the branches and roots over the ground, nothing grows back. Now they generally pile 'em up in some sort of line and a wood chipping machine comes and picks up the remains to create chip. A lot of the chip is used for regrowth as a source of nutriment.

[VicFrauenfeld]

Now they generally pile 'em up in some sort of line and a wood chipping machine comes and picks up the remains to create chip. A lot of the chip is used for regrowth as a source of nutriment.

They should send the truck with wood chips to my house. I could use a bunch for my flowerbeds.

I am not too far. Just in eastern Wisconsin, right on Lake Michigan.

[zwei]

Mildly infuriating...

Was using PTC forum recently....
And for some unknown reason...the forum decide that i would/should accept the first response as answer and did it on my behalf...

I have not even look at the reply and the post is already mark as answered

[AlexLachance]

Mildly infuriating...

Was using PTC forum recently....
And for some unknown reason...the forum decide that i would/should accept the first response as answer and did it on my behalf...

I have not even look at the reply and the post is already mark as answered

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If the answer is correct, what's the problem..?

[zwei]

If the answer is correct, what's the problem..?

How do you know it is correct when you not even look at it

[zwei]

Another pet peeve
PTC and their confusing naming... when Elite license is lower tier than Basic license

Lite < Elite < Basic < Advance...

[P]roduct [T]hat [C]onfuse

[AlexLachance]

Another pet peeve
PTC and their confusing naming... when Elite license is lower tier than Basic license

Lite < Elite < Basic < Advance...
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[P]roduct [T]hat [C]onfuse

Maybe it's E-Lite

[Frederick_Law]

The Elite cost more and sell more because it sounds good.
Then user payment more to upgrade.

Pretty good marketing

[AlexLachance]

The Elite cost more and sell more because it sounds good.
Then user payment more to upgrade.

Pretty good marketing

How's the weather in Ontario? Are you guys having issues with forest fires? It's been pretty wild up here in Quebec the last week or two. A few of my collegues can't go on their fishing trip because of those fires. I hope they'll be controlled within the end of June because I wouldn't want my fishing trip to be cancelled either.

[Frederick_Law]

Cool down here, back to around 20C.
Fire didn't affect us much here.
Plan to go Montreal in July for firework.

[AlexLachance]

Cool down here, back to around 20C.
Fire didn't affect us much here.
Plan to go Montreal in July for firework.

Lucky, we're lucky too since we're close enough to the US to not be really affected by it but the pictures are quite shocking. They're actually digging trenches at certain places to prevent spreading or at least slow it down. There are some towns that have been evacuated and have been told "We can't do anything to stop the town from burning", so lotsa people are going to lose their houses.

[Frederick_Law]

It bad. Fire change direction with the wind.

They cut trees down to make "fire break" but sometime wind blow burning stuff across.

[Frederick_Law]

When I got off work yesterday I can smell the burn wood.
Didn't smell that this morning.

The sky didn't look too bad.
Last night:

This morning:

[AlexLachance]

When I got off work yesterday I can smell the burn wood.
Didn't smell that this morning.

The sky didn't look too bad.
Last night:
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This morning:
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Pinkish sky. Looks nice but apparently it's indication of bad air quality caused by the fire.

They just evacuated a few towns last night, Chibougamau which is a town with a population of over 7500 was evacuated to Roberval. It's been raining since yesterday afternoon though so hopefully they'll start taking control of the situation.

[Frederick_Law]

We are advised not to breath when we're outside.

[AlexLachance]

We are advised not to breath when we're outside.

Really? That sounds absurd lol. I can understand that the air can be polluted but breathing is pretty ,uh, essential...?

[bnemec]

We are advised not to breath when we're outside.

Sounds like a 3Dx PLATFORM work around.

[SPerman]

[jcapriotti]

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Looks like one of those post nuclear war movies from the 80's

[SPerman]

On Wednesday afternoon, North Carolina officials issued a statewide Code Orange air quality alert for all of Thursday as smoke funnels in from Canadian wildfires for the rest of the week.

Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/ ... rylink=cpy

[mattpeneguy]

Looks like fake news to me. Canada shows no active fires:

Kidding aside, looks like some of that smoke may be down all the way here shortly:

That's a lot of smoke.

[AlexLachance]

Looks like fake news to me. Canada shows no active fires:
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Kidding aside, looks like some of that smoke may be down all the way here shortly:
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That's a lot of smoke.

Wow, that is quite the spread

[Frederick_Law]

The sky cleared up a bit today.
Still smell it.
Smell like someone smoking meat.

[VicFrauenfeld]

Smell like someone smoking meat.

Mmmm...meat! Now I'm hungry.

[Frederick_Law]

Let's kill some more brain cells before the weekend:
https://hackaday.com/2023/06/16/these-i ... an-senses/

[zxys001]

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[AlexLachance]

The smoke "finally" got to us last weekend but it cleared up yesterday. I'll take this time to wish an early happy 4th of July to all the Americans on here, I'll be on my usual fishing trip during that time, leaving thursday morning, coming back on sunday.

[SamSpade]

The smoke "finally" got to us last weekend but it cleared up yesterday. I'll take this time to wish an early happy 1st of July to all the Americans on here, I'll be on my usual fishing trip during that time, leaving thursday morning, coming back on sunday.

Do you mean the 4th of July? The 1st is usually reserved for our Canadian friends

[AlexLachance]

Do you mean the 4th of July? The 1st is usually reserved for our Canadian friends

Yeah, mixed my dates up Sorry

[dave.laban]

More excited about July 1st being my daughter's birthday and we're going to Legoland for it this year

[AlexLachance]

More excited about July 1st being my daughter's birthday and we're going to Legoland for it this year

Sweet! Which one are you going? I think there's a few...? Hope you and the family enjoy the experience!

And a happy birthday to your daughter!

[dave.laban]

Thanks! We're doing Legoland Windsor (UK). Been a few years since I've been now, will be her (and my son's) first time, she's turning 6 and quite excited about the whole thing.

[Glenn Schroeder]

More excited about July 1st being my daughter's birthday and we're going to Legoland for it this year

Speaking of birthdays, I don't believe I mentioned that my most recent granddaughter was born last month, the day after my birthday.