Info on Solidworks

Dec 10, 2010 10 Replies
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This just hit my in box and may be of interest to the group.



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note the link to download a free 2 d cad program and dxf converter/reader.
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This is a Dassault Systèmes [French company] product. They also sell Citia.


{political content follows}



Now a question to the group: How/why did things go so wrong? CAD was conceptualized as a DARPA project, and among several others Autodesk/Autocad was a leader in development and marketing of CAD programs.

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DARPA was also instrumental in the development of CNC and APT.
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How/why and who killed the [domestic] CAD/CAM/CIM/CNC golden goose (along with the jumbo jet)? Having killed off McDonnell-Douglas and Lockheed, it looks like Boeing is next on the hit list.
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at least they got rid of the unions...
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-- Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).


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why do the call them "scare-bus"

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============ Just came across a partial answer to this rhetorical question.

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China is running huge trade surpluses (about 5% of GDP) because it is concentrating on growing its national power. And she has the help of hundreds if not thousands of multinational corporations. Her trade surplus is largely made up of the products produced by multinationals in China, including high-tech products like computers, televisions, cell phones, and automobile parts. The list of companies looks likes the Who's Who of the industrial world! And make no mistake: their factories -- really co-factories -- are Chinese. The Chinese have learned from Stalin's mistakes and understand, as Lenin did, that the capitalists in their greed will provide the rope to hang themselves with! Recently, Andrew Grove, a founder of Intel, warned his fellow high-tech companies like Apple, HP, Dell, and many others that their outsourcing in China foretells a coming disaster for the U.S. Grove noted that most of these companies have ten times as many employees producing in China as they do in the United States.

-- Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).

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The Chinese also have another problem right now George - inflation. Rice, for example, has gone up sixty percent year on year.

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Indeed, but their leadership seems to be well aware of the socio-economic problems food shortages can cause and are taking active steps such as leasing vast areas in Africa for food production rather than simply saying "let them eat cake."

A need for food purchases can also cause the Chinese to redeem their US Treasury securities or to trade these for food. A large part of the problem of food inflation may be due to commodity speculation/market manipulation and price rises caused by the fall in the international value of the US dollar. Thus the failure by the government to adequately oversee/regulate the commodities markets can cause serious governmental financial/fiscal problems.

-- Unka George (George McDuffee) .............................. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).

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That is not bad news to everybody in China. There are more rice farmers in China than people in the US.

-jim

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============ While PRC governmental numbers are no more likely to be "true" than are US governmental numbers, they report a 5.1% annual overall inflation rate, and apparently are taking steps to control this.

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For comparison US annualized inflation rates: YEAR CPI-U delta PY

1990 129.0 1991 134.3 5.3
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China reports "purposefully". I don't know why that would surprise anyone.

LOL

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Ah excuse me. Why do you label inflation in farm commodities as "a problem" and inflation for anything else is regareded as normal and acceptable?

The majority of the population of China is impoverished because their has been in recent history no comparable inflation in the price of the goods they produce. An increase in the price of rice or other foods is not a problem for those who produce the food, which in the case of China is a majority of the population. Increases in the price of rice may well be a problem for the robber barons that would like to induce the farmer to move to an urban slum and work in an urban sweat shop.

-jim

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