Solidworks Chopper

Almost, but he used a B(FORD)H & beat it to death right when he needed
it for the biker build off. The one where he was making that tank.
Damn he is good. If I could do that then I could party with the gals
he does, instead I just set here with Sulphur oil running down my
nose Maybe in my next life?

 

Damn Sulphur oil screws up the keyboard, time to put it in the
dishwasher again!

 

I won't tell Cookie if you don't. ;-)


--
Later,

Charlie

Write-in Vote DobeDave for President 2008

 

Who could not even use CAD/CAM?

LOL ....

Poor jb'd not know. He'd just complain.
It's like he's totally clueless.

 

With all your skills and knowledge regarding Cadd Cam Jon its a little
surprising folks like yerself haven't been writing programs for machining
using matlab ?

http://www.mathworks.com/

John

 

He's a hack. And an asshole to boot.

 

A CAD/CAM system should encourage a user to experiment rather
than forcing a user to have a very good idea of exactly want they
want to create from the get go. This cuts to the heart of why Buell uses
thinkID and what the real power of Global Shape Modeling is. In a
nut shell... GSM encourages experimentation.

IMO, it's very important to realize just how good the thinkID GSM UI is:

No obnoxious dialog boxes. No move to the side of the screen to enter
info in a modeling panel ... which is better than model obscuring dialog
boxes but not anywhere near as good as what think does with the GSM
part of it's UI. This UI should be used in all of thinkID / thinkDesign but
it still isn't. : (

BTW, I sent you an e-mail a few weeks ago to your hotmail account
in regards to VX. I did not address your complaints on VX's marketing
needing help but I am ready to at this point... in e-mail. Suffice it to say
your point still does seem to be valid.

jon

 

1. He's a good business person... very good.

2. He seems to give a lot of his employees a decent opportunity to learn and
to inovate.

I would be interested in hearing your *specific grievances* with him.

Also, what did you think of the SolidWorks bike ? Did very little / nothing
for me.

jon

 

=----


Like being very good at building a business and keeping his employees.

Like knowing how to market.

He seems to have done a lot of growing as a person.

I don't think his real talent lies in building a bike... he has some decent
ideas but he's not a Billy Lane, a Wink Eller or an Indian Larry and I think
he knows that.

jon

 

So can you say for sure he had done what he has done just for ratings ?

A good CAD/CAM package encourages creativity. Most CAD/CAM
software restricts creativity.

jon

 

Could not agree more ! Maybe if this trend continues we will see other
shows / other channels offer more comprehenive stuff ?

I sure hope so ! I think this is badly needed !

CAD/CAM should encourage a user to try new things, to let a user
experiment to their hearts content, instead of penalizing a user for having
the unmitigated gall to not know exactly what they want wherein that users
life is made as miserable as possible for trying to use the CAD/CAM
system in this way.

jon

 

I'm wide awake.

I have no interest in using a CAD/CAM system for my own
stuff that forces me to immediately "get all my ducks in a row". I do
have an interest in using a system that lets me freely experiment
without penalty and encourages me to try things that a restrictive
system would not.

Are you using Pro/E by any chance ?

jon

 

One thing that comes to mind in particular is his over-usage of a BFH. It
made me cringe to see both Sr. and Jr. beat on the engine sprocket when
installing a belt drive on 2 different bikes. Sr beat on it with a green
deadblow hammer in one episode. I can never watch a whole show because
except for Vinny, I've seen them all do some really crude things in the
shop. Fuckin hammer-mechanics, they are. It's their friend Jason the painter
that makes thier stuff look good. In NJ when you build a custom bike if you
do any alterations _AT ALL_ to the frame you have to have an engineering
inspection done on it and the welds inspected. I wouldn't be surprised if
they aren't even certified welders. Christ I've seen them let Mikey weld
stuff.
<rant off>

 

I think beating stuff is their mechanical style... if you wanna call it
that. It's not like we have not seen this "style" before in machining
job shops.

Thanks for the clarification. I miss this type of detailed post from
you. I guess you have been busy.

jon

 

Regarding his business sense, well I have to say I see people walking around
wearing OCC T shirts, stores stocking them, when I go look at die-cast cars
in the toy section ( for my son ) I see lot of OCC bikes- surely he has made
a few bucks marketing his company's name and their product. I haven't seen
any DamlierChysler Magnums or S300 Hot Wheels cars yet. I would love to see
DamlierChrysler have a show developing their product. I don't see
DamlierChysler T-shirts for sale. Whenever we talk about cars at work
DamlierChysler comes up as a cheap product- nice to look at perhaps, but to
be avoided. I hear a number of folks saying they'd love to buy one of OCC's
bikes.... It was a Lexus in Minority Report. OCC apparently did a bike for
I, Robot.
Not a fair comparison between DamlierChrysler and OCC perhaps, but the
point is there.
Last I saw, he had reinvested some of his capital in larger premises. I
haven't kept up with their developments- being able to modernize and expand
is important-but, often pioneer investing in new technology is fatal as the
expense is greater than the reward and the competitor snaps up your
investment at auction.
To be honest, I'll take a wait'n see regarding OCC; I see lots of style but
little substance. OCC's style is outdated in my opinion, by the way.
I liked Cannondale, another family business, no tv show, but I knew them for
constant innovation and a quality product; they did a lot with pioneer
technology (material, design, manufacturing and marketing).

I don't see the "theme" of the Solidworks bike, could've been, should've
been true to the concept of Solidworks- but instead I see an
incomprehensible cop-out.

Laz

 

It's a LOT better to have a clue.

HTH

 

LOL .... I've used it a little <G>.
Ported some stuff developed in it to APT once ....

 

More BS from the clueless BS king .... it's not like he's ever used
any of it, after all. Or ever done any design, probably not even a
brick.

 

Always nice to hear what you think machinists, engineers & designers
do. And what happens in actual shops .....
How many busted tools did you say you had?

Remember the X-files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose"?

Bruckman (to the killer) "You do the things you do because... you're
a homicidal maniac."

Killer "Of course! It's all starting to make sense now."

HTH