Is the silence a tell all?

Some of you have downloaded 2005 SP 0.0 and are probably working with
it in some fashion (testing or projects) any flaws at this point?
Usually by know I would have expected to see some flame of the latest
release and some hokey garbage about how we are all beta testers.
Anyway I haven't run into anything. Anyone else?

Ken

 

So, silence IS golden! Or is it just that so many of us have been burned
that almost no one is trying out SP0?

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

i've been testing some small assemblies (w/ associated parts & drawings) at
home and haven't seen this. the ability to add tolerances to each component
of the hole callout is very nice. i always look forward to drawing
enhancements.

 

Apparently you didn't read my previous post under SW2005 is up.

Here is a quick list:

Huge install size. 700 MB + 125MB on C: before installing Toolbox or
PDMWorks.

Problems with setting up default directories and getting the tabs right.

Problems with it wanting to make an ODBC connection to a non-existent
Toolbox. I hadn't installed it (TB) yet.

Problems with editing the curved slot library feature.

Problems with the static seal library feature.

None is a show stopper and I think all have workarounds. Then again, this
was the first twenty minutes of playing with it.

 

bob z. likes this ability, also. it is VERY nice to be able to tolerance
each component of a hole, c'bore, etc. the problem seems to be that it
isn't very consistent. good ol' bob z. opened up an old (2004) dwg and
the hole callout tolerance feature worked on one hole and it didn't work
correctly on another. oh well, some is better than none!

on a side note, bob z. is running a little 'office pool'. how many months
before our I.T. genius gets swx2005 installed. we had to wait 5 months
for swx2004.
8~)>

bob z.

 

dang, i thought you fell you the edge (of earth) and just in case you did,
welcome back from the abyss.

 

bob z. has had an interesting summer. he left a very good job for a 39%
pay increase. the company that offered this HUGE pay was in serious
financial trouble. good ol' bob z. had to go back to his original job
within 3 weeks... abyss? yes, abyss could not be more descriptive.

"umm, yeah, boss? yeah, do you still have room for a schizo-redneck who
posts to usenet in the third person?"

not fun.
8~)>

bob z. is now exactly one week along with his new eyes. yep, got the
LASIK vision correction. pretty darn awesome. bob z. now has 20/15
vision. no glasses needed! is that cool or what?

bob z. just got a new computer at work! it is a 3.4ghz xeon with 2.5gb of
ram and a quadroFX 3400 video card. woooo-weeee! it ALSO has
window$ ex-pee service pack TWO. bob z. can see that the computer is
fast. real fast. bob z. can also see when it stops and waits for
instructions from the I.T. Genius. it's a shame really.

bob z.

 

The 5 minute rule still holds.

I just used the DWGEditor a.k.a. SolidAutoCad (SAC). That is pretty
slick. Looks just like some nameless version of ACAD.

Pulled up a vendor print. Looked awesome. Went to print and the labels
on the buttons on the bottom of the lookalike print setup screen were
nameless. You had to guess which button was print, etc. Not only did
they not have labels, but the size and placement of the buttons
changed every time you clicked on one of them.

And of course this happened within 5 minutes of starting this
application for the first time.

 

I'm sticking to the use of contact lenses. (Chicken?)

I wonder what meaning have those "20/900" numbers. Here (France), you are
given a kind of a grade for our eyesight, from 0/10 to 10/10.

Is it always 20/"something", the bigger the "something" is, the worst your
eyesight is? And what is he range of that "something"?



TIA

JM

 

20/20 is normal vision. you can see from 20 feet what normal eyes can
see from 20 feet. 20/900 means you can only see from 20 feet what
normal eyes can see from 900 feet (VERY VERY Bad). I don't know at what
level it starts but if non-correctable, 20/500 is leagaly blind in the U.S..

Dave H

 

20/X vision means simply that you can see at 20 feet what a "normal" person
can see at 20 feet.

Thus, 20/100 is bad, and 20/10 is good. Functionally, the range is from
~20/10 to ~20/1000

Note that this is a very limited measurement--it doesn't in any way address
"near field" vision of the sort that's necessary to read--you could have
20/20 ("normal") vision and still need to wear reading glasses.

 

bob z. hasn't seen any issues thus far with sp2. it seems to have changed
the way IE works - basically the download dialog box looks differently and
stuff like that...

bob z. is a little tooooo drunky right now to comment further.

sorry!

bob z.
in praise of Bacchus

 

I forget what it is called... but was this the version of Lasik (or is
it lasek) that they make a contour map of the lense and do selective
blasting, or was this the "general" one curvature fits all type? Do you
know what I mean? I recently read about this new form that was checking
the focus properties of points across the lense, and as it is organic,
it is not perfectly symmetrical - so this mapping then allows the laser
to blast more or less from selective spots - supposedly improving the
results.

I would consider this, but I am really not so confident that there are
no side effects - like the nightime light glare or halos. Do you get
any of this, or is it too early to tell?

Cheers, and glad to hear our favorite third person sees well and has a
job agian ;-)

Daniel