Surfacing questions

I'm thinking of doing a standup routine at the next World Event.

"Whaddabout when you try to merge/intersect 2 quilts and it works
side1side2, side1side1, side2side2 but not side2side1? What's the deal
with that? I mean, does it intersect or not? And if it does what does
it matter what side is left? And why is side2side1 always the one you
want? And never the other 3? How does it know? It's a 25 percent chance
and it always takes the long shot! What's the deal with that?

And why is it when you get your quilt to work, you can't make a cut/use
quilt? what's the deal with that? It intersects the solid perfectly!
You can make an intersecting datum curve and it's a closed loop!
Nothing wrong with it! No failed geometry, no clue as to why won't do
it!

And why is it, when you finally massage the f***ing thing, inserting an
approximate curve and offsetting its edge 0.1mm instead of using the
original edge, and changing some section dimensions by 0.1mm here and
there, and you finally get half your symettrical part.....then you want
to mirror the thing and it won't let you copy the solid surface
(because we all know Mirror Geom is, ahem, "problematic" so you need to
copy the solid and do a surface tranform/mirror/copy) even though the
geometry is THERE but is says the geometry is overlapping but all you
are doing is copying it! What's the f***ing deal with that?

Think I'd get some laughs?

 

....

Havin' a bad day?

Using Relative Accuracy?

Tried to resolve the first problem before compounding it with approximations and
tiny offsets?

I can sympathize (or is it "empathize"?), but without seeing a data set all I
can do is laugh.

What version of Pro/E you usin'?

 

Do you think they open their own mail?

 

I'm using 2001. Yeah, I know, but we ain't jumping until most of our
clients do.

 

Stick with it as long as you can. We've had a lot of trouble with WF2.

 

We'll probably jump when WF3 comes out.

 

I want to post an image to the group but to do that I need to know the
email address of the group, which I didn't realize it had. I can't
attach an image to a google groups posting, I have to email it to the
group. According to google groups the group's home page displays the
email address of the group, but I can't find a home page for this
group. Anyone know?

 

Well, don't do what we did with 2 and assume it'll be fine. Rather than
messing round with the interface and making it slow & clanky, I'd like
to see it ported to 64 bit so we could use really big models.

 

We'd all need new computers for that, or at least new CPUs.

 

We took a hefty performance hit with WF2, and are upgrading our
machines anyway. If you aren't on XP with 2.6GHz+, 2Gb you may wish to
stick with 2001. Plus, because it has a bigger kernel, some assemblies
we could use with 2001 we can't use with WF2. Bah.

Stress test it before you deploy it. Make sure the biggest models you
have will still run at decent speed.

 

... Yeah, I know, but we ain't jumping until ...

Suggestion not intended. Just trying to get some pertinent info in the event
you want to try to resolve some of the problems (other than making the software
better; that's not my field).

This is supposed to be (?) a text only group. I think you can attach some
binaries via a news reader (OE, etc.) but at risk of raising hackles (?). Try
mcadcentral.com if you can release any of the data set or somehow illustrate
what the problems you are having involve. Might find someone that can offer
some suggestions.