Joe Greco's last CAD article

We've already regretfully noted Joe Greco's untimely passing a few weeks
ago. A few of us here were working with Joe on an article in November. It
has just been published in Desktop Engineering, and is available on-line.
The article has an unfortunate name, "SolidWorks Toolbox", which we all
know to be SW's library of parts, but he was speaking of a box of tools,
mainly macros, which can be used with SW.

The article features several regular and former posters to this group, and
has a nice collection of links to several websites. In particular, Joe
cites Scott Baugh, Mike Wilson, Ed Eaton, and other websites not identified
by name include those by Stefan Berlitz, Neil Custard, Sean Adams, CAP
(eastern VAR), and Centare Group.

It's a valuable collection of sources of SW information on the web. So
long, Joe.

http://www.deskeng.com/articles/cover_story/solidworks_toolbox/


Matt

 

Fellow Arizona resident Joe Greco(Joe use to live in Chandler(suburb of
Phoenix)and then moved to Flagstaff.)clearly knew how much better many
of the tools in thinkID were compared to SolidWorks 2005.

Joe was a *huge fan* of thinkID's Global Shape Modeling.

Joe knew that SolidWorks had a long, long way to go to be considered a
good tool to be used for consumer product design:

http://www.deskeng.com/articles/04/aug/cover/main.htm

"Designers will also enjoy some new freeform modeling capabilities in
SolidWorks 2005. For starters, there is a new tool called Flex, and its
options-Bend, Twist, Taper, and Stretch- represent another area of
the program that reminds me of Wildfire. Both programs are similar in
that the process of selecting the portion of the model to be affected
by the edit was not thought out very well. Programs like thinkdesign
from think3 (Cincinnati, OH; think3.com) make a task such as bending a
lot easier, for instance."

Joe also knew that SolidWorks Corp. had become very much a follower
rather than a leader:

http://www.deskeng.com/articles/04/aug/cover/main.htm

"Nice Sketching Enhancements Not Entirely New

Geometry relationships in SolidWorks are now automatically displayed
and the icons used here are functional-that is, they can be
single-clicked on and deleted or double-clicked on to see what other
geometrical elements they relate to. Another nice sketching enhancement
in version 2005 is the ability to dynamically trim entities by
dragging. However, it should be pointed out that Solid Edge has had
both these features for years."

jon

 

You just have to be an unmitigated idiot, right?
Someone dies & you try to hype junk to sell.

Bridge still flooded out?

 

I have to agree with Cliff. Jon you are a real a-hole this time. I
didn't know Joe personally or had ever communicated with him on a one
to one level. You are crossing a line here and I for one would like to
crawl through the screen and pop you in the nose hoping it would give
you an ounce of tact. Now what I said is not very mature but it would
make me feel better.

Ken M.

 

It makes me feel better, too. Thanks, Ken.

 

I never knew Joe, but I am glad that he, like many others on here, made the
effort to help
other users like myself.
So I would just like to add my condolences too.
Pete

 

I did know Joe Greco, Pete. Joe read what I wrote to upFrontEzine...

www.upfrontezine.com


about Autodesk and quoted me when trying to get Autodesk to answer
questions on Shape Manager in one of Autodesks newsgroups. Joe Greco
was pretty frustrated with Autodesk at that point and for damn good
reason. Shortly after that Joe Greco e-mailed me and we began a dialog.


Here are my comments that Joe Greco quoted from and asked Autodesk to
respond to:

http://www.upfrontezine.com/2001/upf-275.htm

"How can Autodesk expect someone to believe that they are now going to
be able to deliver seamless, unified, hybrid modeling with Inventor
using a 'new' kernel? The tools have existed in the ACIS kernel and
Advanced Surfacing Husk for a long time. To me, it's disappointing that
no one is asking Buzz Kross why Autodesk chose not to use existing
hybrid tools. Inventor users should have had these modeling tools by
now.

"This does not speak well of Autodesk's ability to implement what they
already had with ACIS. Now Autodesk wants Inventor users to believe
that Autodesk will create all-new hybrid modeling source code when
Autodesk could not apply what they already had, and had paid for, with
their ACIS license.

"Ashlar Vellum Cobalt has made excellent use of the ACIS kernel to
deliver hybrid surfacing tools that Inventor is not close to having.
Cadkey will attempt to do the same with the ACIS kernel om Version 20."
jon

 

I didn't know Joe personally or had ever communicated with him on a
one

That's too bad. I did.


jon

 

I didn't know Joe personally or had ever communicated with him on a
one

That's too bad. I did.


jon

 

I didn't know Joe personally or had ever communicated with him on a
one

That's too bad. I did.


jon

 

Did he miss the nose?

 

What nose?

 

Oh, THAT nose !!!

Burma Shave

 

And they all knew an idiot when they saw one, right?

Pretty funny indeed <VBG>.

Still banned in the AutoCAD groups?

Anyone at up FrontEzine taking you calls? LOL ....

 

mr. banquer is a cyberspace dickhead
just add him to your blocked senders list.

 

It obviously bothers you that Joe Greco did agree with much of what I
had to say in regards to hybrid modeling and Autodesk.

Can't really say that it bothers me that this seems to eat at you. :>)

Trust me on this: You and some others in this newsgroup are going to
get a lot more bothered real soon.


jon

 

Probably excellent advise for people who think and act like you do.

It's not like I'm hard to filter as I post under the same name and have
for more years than either of you have been posting here.

jon

 

sorry but in jons case I just can't be bothered reading it....he earned this
distinction 2 years ago because of his lunatic VX gush... it hasn't changed
any, so that's where he resides...referring to Joe Greco in that way is just
crass and is not going to bring him back into my favour.
cheers
neil

 

Well, it's probably a lot safer for jb.
In the past, with real live people whose names he
dropped, one could contact them to verify usually.

Now he can make even dumber claims: The dead told him
(used to be Bill Gibbs, hiding under his bed, IIRC).

You could find out that jb is a blatent liar, that
jb is a confused idiot, that they don't take his calls
or reply to his Email.
And that none of them ever offered him a job, per
his claims (after all, he'd actually need to know
at least something).
A few offered to send him job applications IF he
would reveal his secret address IIRC (since he was begging
for a job it seemed to them). None were ever sent AFAIK.

TO: idiot under bridge, c/o postoffice?

(On the bright side of things, the dead may have a fine
sense of humor <G>.)

 

There's quite a little list of other names that he's used
and been caught at. In addition to some obvious ones.

HTH