Today's Webcast

I signed up but didn't get any info on where to send anything. Can
someone email me the info on where to call in and where to watch.
Thanks

KM

 

participants have their name to enter and there is phone line access
arranged also.
I am not sure if I send you the url etc.that you will be able to attend if
you are not reg properly.I think you will need to contact SW pronto
files were uploaded via the link on the web page advertising the event

 

I did that. And I am trying to contact everyone I know at SolidWorks
and all I am getting is voice mail. I've called my VAR and their tech
support didn't know about it so they were very little help so I am
stuck right now. Any help would be appreciated.
KM

 

I signed up when it was originally announced. Not a peep since.

...figures....

Arif

 

See inbox

 

I contacted SW. Apparently the person in charge of this has dropped the
ball. The switchboard is overwhelmed with calls about it. They promised
to call as soon as they figure it out.
Steve

 

THanks Neil. I am in. I really appreciate it. If they dropped the
ball, then I am guessing this is going to get rescheudled.

KM

 

well that was a bit disappointing- I couldn't get my phone to connect to the
operator for participating in live questions.

hardly any one there ! what happened ID people !!!

 

I, for one, was one of the people that SWx neglected to send their
attendee instructions. I skipped taking vacation days and going fishing in
the hope that I'd learn something new from that webcast. Needless to say,
I'm quite pissed off.

 

The email I got from SWx didn't have the meeting ID, just the URL and
meeting key. I tried for a minute to run through every permutation of
the availalbe information that I could think of but eventually had to
pass on it. I'm rather curious to find out what I was supposed to
enter.

Anything good/useful come up?

-Ed

 

I thought it was valuable. I think when they do it again and don't
screw up the email to everyone it will be much better. There will be
more feedback. I tried to ask as many of my questions as possible and
they answered very well. Showed two of my models one I had a challenge
I had not solved yet. It was valuable and will be even better when
they have more people watching to participate.

KM

 

hopefully they will hold it again.
if so I think they could do with some more examples of users parts to
dissect.
very few people participating ...it was actually 90mins after all...they
stuffed up there too...struggled for content and ended 15 mins early...I
just couldn't type my question fast enough to feed them ;o)
nothing new shown today other than some help with atomic bomb fillets.
if anything it was a bit simplistic because I wanted to know more about the
innards of splines and lofts etc
I was really looking forward to live discussion afterward.... {

 

Any details? I hate to be a pest, but I'm curious about what they were
attempting to do. If you don't have the time for a more detailed
description, I imagine that it was recorded and will be available
online at some point
Thanks,
Ed

 

Sounds like "Trees of Blood" at CATI all over again. At least they
didn't forget to unlock the door.

 

Here is the link to the recording of the webcast.

http://www.placeware.com/cc/solidworks1/view?id=TandT-June-29-05&pw=716654


I wasn't taking notes but I agree with Neil where he said it was a bit
simplistic but I think they were prepared for more user questions and
parts. And there really wasn't much user feedback or parts. I sent in
two parts and saw them show both. They are on the right track with
this type of webcast for advanced training/learning for advanced users.
It's format is set up to be an extension of this forum where we all
give our best solutions to problems and then SolidWorks takes that and
says this is what the best method is. Let's just call this the beta
web cast and assume that it will be a little smoother the next time
without screwing up the emails back. In fairness I think my ISP
blocked the email thinking it was Spam because I cannot forward
anything from SolidWorks from my RoadRunner account to work and have it
get through. So I guess it's time to register with the Road Runner
account. It would be nice also if SolidWorks would stop making their
emails for this type of stuff all HTML. Just send out a simple text
email for this so it doesn't get blocked by all the Spam software.

KM

KM

 

If this is so, why not just have SW people hangout in the newsgroup and
in the SW discussion forum?

 

I think the answer to this is:
1) the senior people are probably too busy - but not fixing bugs ) - to
spend time hanging out here reading cliff and jon drama....probably
sensible.
2) to be most effective the format needs to be focused i.e. managed or
chaired....they can cut my humorous questions for example...
3) the video allows users to see modelling in action - worth a 1000 words -
and the audio brings the inflection missing from the written
messages....also there isn't time to pick over and squabble about what is
said.

to be honest I think most people realise that the problem with doing better
surfacing is that the current tools won't allow you to...and of course SW
aren't keen to discuss that publicly or talk about what might arrive
sometime.
having said that though there are I am sure many smarter ways to use what we
have.
this is where talking to the people who developed the tools is valuable.
the previous webcast where Mark B modelled a remote control was a good idea
but if he had shown techniques and strategies for doing things the 'proper'
way it would be better.
if people can really understand the guts of SW splines and lofts then they
can achieve the best results possible.
so maybe they need to pick on a demo project and discuss various approaches
and the use of particular tools with regard to what's actually happening
with geometry.
maybe 'tips and tricks' doesn't quite fit the bill...'strategies for better
models'?
what do you all think?

neil

 

I think the modeling people at SW are really trying to get their house
in order and Mark B is a good example of that. They are looking for
input and willing to talk.

 

Same thing happened to us. Twice. One of the other guys signed up and set up
a conference room, conference phone and projector so that we could
participate as a group. He wasn't able to be here because of his father's
death, so I signed up. Neither of us got any confirmation or log-in/phone
information from SW.

I hope they do it again, but with a bit more organizational skill.

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

 

This is too funny. :>)

Proof ?

VX is about to release VX 11, and think3 is finally focused on their
real strength.... industrial design. A fall release of Pro/E Wildfire 3
is around the corner.

What do you think would happen if PTC started throwing in CAM as well
as ISDX for say $5,000 in the fall or sooner ? :>)

SaladWorks is going to have no freaking choice but to start listening.

The FACT is:

SaladWorks Corp is still one hundred percent focused on Autodesk as
recently stated by their CEO in upFronteZine.

www.upfrontezine.com

That SaladWorks Corp. can buy off Mark Biasotti with a job means jack
shit. It's actual product capability that really means something and
SaladWorks doesn't have the needed capability.


jon