Mark Biasotti on Wildfire vs. SolidWorks

I did copy and paste it. Did word wrap mess it up on your reader? If not, I don't know what the problem is.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems

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Jerry Steiger
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Hi Mark,

"Cadcamnet is the web site for Steven Wolf's stuff "Computer Aided Design Report". It's probably the "only" non biased publication of it's kind. It's not affiliated with CIMDATA or any other similar organization."

If you follow this link you will see that cadcamnet has a whole bunch of reports done by CIMDATA :

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I think the idea is to broaden their appeal.

As for Steven Wolf's stuff:

I use to read his Computer Aided Design Report years ago. I agree it and he were excellent. I always enjoyed how they ripped PTC to shreds for many of their practices. I also remember how favorably they treated SolidWorks as a viable alternative and supported SolidWorks when IMO SolidWorks Corp. deserved to be supported. They were also very honest in describing the constant BS from Autodesk.

I have an opinion on why Mark Biasotti helped / basically wrote this comparison and I hope it does some good. I don't feel, however, that this comparison will get properly discussed and analyzed in this newsgroup... which IMO is very unfortunate.

jon

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jon banquer

Yes, but the real question now for you to decide is:

How can the body of the powerful "Mach 5" be CNC machined to "Pops" satisfaction without the needed C2 tangency and curvature continuous surfacing tools being in SolidWorks ???

How will your client, "Pops" and his driver "Speed" feel when Racer X shop is using a seamless, unified, hybrid modeler that can get the job done ??? I would not want to be in your shoes bro when "Pops" stuffs you in the trunk with "Spridle" and "Chim-chim". ;>)

Your probably not going to be in favor with "Trixie" either, dude. :>)

The next episode featuring Racer X taking the long deserved glory and win (Lets face it Rex always got the shaft just cause he did not take any crap from "Pops"... what a dysfunctional family. :>) ) will probably rub it in when you see the seamless, unified, hybrid modeling VX Vision sponsor sticker on the Racer X car. No doubt, in the background will be all the fans cheering madly for Racer X.

The moral of our story:

You can't win when you don't have the proper seamless, unified, hybrid modeling tools to get the job done.

jon

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jon banquer

Stop reading children's picturebooks.

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Cliff Huprich

Has poor jb yet noticed that SW is not a CAM system?

Clearly he has no idea of what "C2" is .... but nobody ever claimed he had a clue what he posts about.

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Cliff Huprich

From my days in college, this is how I remeber C0 vs C1 and so forth:

C0 means that the function (or spline) is continuous. There are no sudden step changes. (Think of a square)

C1 means that the spline's 1st derivative is continuous. This means there is no sudden changes in curvature. (Now think of a square with rounded corners)

C2 means that the spline's 2nd derivative is continuous.

Cn means that the spline's nth derivative is continuous.

In essence, the greater the C value the nicer and more pleasing the spline looks. When I was writing programs in college to fit slpines to data, I noticed a definite improvement going from C1 to C2 - the spline just looked better. Going from C2 to C3 didn't really make too much of a difference.

-Matt Smith

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Matt Smith

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