CAD Forum

SPerman wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:40 pm

Willie Nelson is the only one of The Highwaymen still with us.

SPerman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2024 8:02 am

hmm, was that the G Rated version?

Today I am listening to a angry wasp living in my graphics card. I can safely say the bearings are shot in the fan and it is driving me round the bend . New graphics card can't come soon enough.

RichGergely wrote: ↑Tue Oct 29, 2024 12:53 pm Today I am listening to a angry wasp living in my graphics card. I can safely say the bearings are shot in the fan and it is driving me round the bend . New graphics card can't come soon enough.

I ended up dropping my college CAD laptop about a week or two ago.

Fortunately it was okay, but it started doing this high pitched whine.

Open it up, found the issue. The fan housing in the graphics card fan had a slight dent from where one of the bottom vents got bent.

Fortunately fixed that but, man, I was freaking out. Laptops are not cheap.(at least the kind we need)

Glad it did not happen to the laptop I had before this one. Build quality is so bad, that thing would have shattered.

Maybe when I get to be a big dog like everyone else here, I can get a Panasonic Toughbook. That way I can draft with explosions going off in a Category 4 hurricane while being thrown against a wall.

ctsturdiv wrote: ↑Wed Oct 30, 2024 2:54 am I ended up dropping my college CAD laptop about a week or two ago.

Fortunately it was okay, but it started doing this high pitched whine.

Open it up, found the issue. The fan housing in the graphics card fan had a slight dent from where one of the bottom vents got bent.

Fortunately fixed that but, man, I was freaking out. Laptops are not cheap.(at least the kind we need)

Glad it did not happen to the laptop I had before this one. Build quality is so bad, that thing would have shattered.

Maybe when I get to be a big dog like everyone else here, I can get a Panasonic Toughbook. That way I can draft with explosions going off in a Category 4 hurricane while being thrown against a wall.image.png

I'm free of listening to the angry wasp, I will probably end up getting a new ebay fan for the old card so I have a spare.

I bought a Dell open box Nvidia RTX A4000 with a year warranty from a reputable supplier. It really was a open box, looks like it has never even been mounted as far as I can tell. Sure it's not as fast as the latest RTX 4000 ADA released this year but it isn't far off and still way faster than the new RTX 2000 ada which you could only get for about £150 max cheaper.

Since it's coming up in the US, ran into this oldie that you don't hear a lot even on oldies streams/radios.

It's from a side project of Duran Duran called Arcadia.

They played the hell out of it in 1985 on pop radio when I was a kid but before the YT algorithm brought it up, I had not heard this in 30+ years.

Still a banger. They still don't make music like they did in the 80s-90s.But I think my dad said the same thing about 1950s-60s music. And my kid will probably say the same about 00s music.

French group dropped a new album and they have a song that speaks about the horrible accent we frenchies inherit from our parents, it's meant as a humoristic take.

Keep in mind it's "metal", so not for everyone's taste

Metal with bad accent?
Gonna be worse than Scottish.

I discovered today on a long drive that XM has more than a Beatles channel and NPR. I blasted Lithium (90s/grunge) and relived a few glory years.... Some of those bands were awesome.

When you have 60 pages of minor revisions (mostly just a weld symbol here and there and a changed dimension)...

Before I became a designer, when I made maps for my DnD games, I used to tell my players how I hated doors. In the cartography software I used and VTT and line of sight deals, this required me find door textures, put gaps in line of site lines, then go back in and place door lines of site. All across multiple programs.

Now at my job, I am having to correct door blade measurements for auto-locking electric doors on a ship. And there's 60+ of them and they are all slightly different and are not xrefed in. I think they got a new vendor for a part to it.

For that, you need something meditative in the background.

I am just about finished with it, but will need to get with a senior designer for something I need guidance on (I have to convert a part of a vendor drawing, but that drawing is hardcore. They even modeled pitches on screw threads and I don't think the engineers want that.) But other than that, it's meditative time.

Annotationland..