Dave Learns About Boatbuilding

David Letterman learns about boatbuilding and woodworking from "Parks and Recreation" actor, Nick Offerman. OK, I had no idea who that was, or what Parks and Recreation was, so I had to look it up.

SolidWorks Seminars in Scotland

If you're interested in learning more about SolidWorks, come along to one of our events in Edinburgh or Aberdeen.  We will have a limited number of PC's available for a hands on test drive after lunch.  Click on the links below to find out more information and register:

Aberdeen - 5th October 2011

Edinburgh - 2nd November 2011 

Paddling at night, inevitable and pleasurable

The days are getting shorter; sunset comes ever earlier. We're bemoaning the loss, but we're also taking advantage of the opportunity to do more night paddling long before bedtime.

Paddling the Chicago River after dark.

It's beautiful. The streetlights and headlights are wistful; the building lights are lonely and lovely. People are working, commuting, eating, sleeping. And us? We get to paddle!

Paddling on Lake Michigan, with the skyline in the distance. 

There's a lot to learn at night, too. We've discovered that some running lights are brighter than others. (Our current favorite: the Kayalite.) We've discovered that the captains of the frightening Seadog speedboats are far more friendly and professional than we thought, and that hailing them on channel 16 is an effective way to let them know where we are and make sure we aren't in their path. We've discovered that it's hard to switch to the channel they suggest if your VHF radio doesn't have an illuminated display.

We've also discovered that afterwork paddles are a great opportunity to get out with friends who aren't available on weekends. And paddling on Wednesday, in particular, is like a mini-weekend. Two days later, it's the weekend again!

Vangelis ~ Rachel´s Song - paul oakenfold remix

應該沒人沒聽過XD

新包包A0A

被一群宅男勸敗的...........

竟然要價3000

嗚嗚

雖然是打過折+兩百塊抵用卷的價格再殺52塊....

Flexible Coils

Every now and again someone asks me a question that gets the grey cells jumping.  How can I ....?

This time my colleague Mike was asking about bent coils for a PVC tube.  A lot of users out there know about the helix command that allows us to create straight coils e.g. for heat exchangers, but what about something more complex?  A coil following a complex path.  How can I create this?

Well you need to use some of the flexibility with the sweep feature.  This is a really powerful tool that can create truly complex parts with a single feature.  So where to start with the bent coil?

STEP 1:  Draw the spline for the hose

STEP 2:  Draw a line.  This will be the radius of the coil

STEP 3: Use a swept surface.  One of the options for sweeps is how the sketch will follow the path.  The advanced parts course goes into this in great detail and shows just how powerful the command is, but for this example I selected twist along path and chose 10 turns.

STEP 4: I selected the edge of the new surface and the end point and created a new reference plane.  Preselecting ensured that all the default options would be used.  I also ticked to set the origin on the curve

STEP 5: Create a sketch.  Here I used just one circle that matched the OD of the tube I was after

STEP 6: Sweep.  I selected the Thin Feature option to specify a wall thickness.  Thin features are a great way to create tubes and thin plates with the minimum of sketching.

STEP 7: Delete surface.  Use the delete body command to delete the 'construction' surface.

That's it.  A little more work than a straight coil, but you can create some really intricate designs with this one.

Gordon

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM - Is it for you?

In the 3+ years I've been working with SolidWorks, a question keeps surfacing about where SolidWorks Enterprise PDM is positioned and the minimum number of users to justify it's deployment.  The answer to the latter portion is 1 or more!


SolidWorks Enterprise PDM is a tool which allows you manage your data and much more.  Most companies out there require an approval process before changes are finalised or manufacturing begins.  If your company is ISO certified, this process should be documented and ready to be audited at any time.  Ask yourself "how do I know my manger received my design change?" or, if you are the person in charge, "why is it taking so long to make that change I emailed last week?".  Maybe you should send another email or call them to check.  Wouldn't it be so much easier if you were notified?


Key things you should remember about EPDM:


Easy for everyone to use, not just CAD users
Flexible to suit your requirements.  Do it your way.
Search feature (to avoid scrolling through thousands of files)
Review, approval and change requests within the EPDM environment
Control all file formats
Track Document history and changes made
Protect designs from theft or accidental overwriting


Ensure the right people get the right data at the right time


All of which equal time savings and increased security for your product.  Check out even more reasons why you should use SolidWorks EPDM by clicking below

Revit 2012 update 2 released

With all the noise about the Autodesk Cloud tools which were released today, it will be very easy to miss that Autodesk have also released Revit 2012 update 2. You will certainly need this update if you plan to use the new Cloud rendering functionality. Get the update here...

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=16841348

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Love Psychedelico ~ Your Song

好聽~~~~~~

聚餐XD

上禮拜小聚餐

阿淦跑去打球..........乾

人家老揮都從台中上來了說

原本想說要不要等他回來一起吃不過算了~~~~~~~我們先衝

超餓XD

我傳簡訊說ㄟ~~~~~~~我們先吃了

他回說......爸媽出門家裡沒人餵小雞sorry

靠XD


吃桃園的相演燒烤

強力推薦@0@

我覺得很不錯說~~~~~~~~~而且吃完隔天我沒勞賽A0A


點了一堆蛤蠣........cccc~~補精

XD

我覺得吃蛤蠣還蠻不錯的呀~~~~~~~~~因為花時間份量又少~~~~~~~可以在一推肉中扮演緩衝的角色

所以吃完一盤就在點XD

還有就是烤肥腸超好吃的@#%$$#^#$^&$%&%$&

而且這家的肉也不錯吃說~~~

我超喜歡烤完的肉拿起來亂灑海鹽~~~~~~~超級好吃A0Ay


這天一起聚餐的宅宅

張睪


阿凱......xd


一直講讓我們不知回啥的話

超無言XD

而且他還表演絕招勒..........

拿起夾子在烤肉的那鍋掃一圈在拿起來舉高高~~~~還配音ㄐㄧㄤ

我們先是傻眼到講不出話。。。。。。。。才開始大笑XDDXDXDXDX



老揮~~~特地座車上來XD




吃完撐都撐死= =

就提議說找電動場玩................跑去遠東樓上.........

甚麼鳥電動場0rz........

超小東西又少

鳥到爆炸= =

掃興的跑去衣蝶亂逛

逛逛逛.............我們要上樓

走到這邊的電扶梯是向下的

老揮對阿凱說~~~~~~ㄟ~~~~你從這上去好不好(開玩笑)

阿凱說~~~~~~好~~~~~~

就衝上去了

幹XDDX

超強XDDXDXDXXDDX

最屌的是他在快到的時候跌倒

笑死我們啦XDXDXD

然後我們從別邊上去看到她走來............

他說ㄟ........上面的人看到全部傻眼........超丟臉的XDXDDX

我想趕快離開現場結果還走到一個死胡同又馬上轉回來

我們笑翻XDXDDXXDXDXD


然後我被他們勸敗了一個包包.........馬低..........3000...........

好貴0rzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

之後就去喝茶


聊聊天~~~~~~~~~

隔壁桌有的妹蠻正的說~~~~~~~~我跟張睪一直偷看XDXDDXXD




要走的時候我找不到ipod又走回去做位找........

找沒有

燈愣............好想哭

後來再找一次包包

原來是丟在另外一層...........幹XD

因為我一直以為我ipod跟手機是丟在外面這一層

誰知道他在背面那層.......好蠢XDXD

不過老揮說他換新包包也曾發生過這種事~~~~~~忽忽

Android ~ MarketEnabler

cool~~~~

這程式可以改變android market的地區編碼

像有些付費程式不能安裝試用版.......如果是在台灣地區

就可以用這程式改成在美國

不過用這程式要先root~~~~忽忽


download
https://market.android.com/details?id=ch.racic.android.marketenabler


reference
http://walker-a.com/archives/907

Lego Ford Explorer

超屌XD

Ford has created a full-size replica of the company's new Explorer crafted from Lego bricks. The sculpture was created by 22 designers over the course of 2,500 hours. All told, there are 380,000 individual bricks at work, weighing in at a hefty 2,654 pounds, and a 768-pound aluminum platform supports the creation










http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/26/ford-debuts-full-size-lego-model-of-explorer-at-chicago-plant-w/

Threethree

第33台車

想不到叫啥~~~~~~就叫Threethree~~~~水水XD

定位在雙門Coupe跑車


車體大致上沒有太多凹凹凸凸的造型

就是很簡單很順的車體XD

不像之前我做得一些車有很大的氣口或有很多線條在車上


以下是一堆圖片lol

白色

















鐵灰










more pictures
https://picasaweb.google.com/100240058276055958825/Threethree

1954 Ferrari 375 MM Pinin Farina Coupe Speciale

http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/4954/Ferrari-375-MM-Pinin-Farina-Coupe-Speciale.html

Autodesk Design Review Mobile

With the advent of portable mobile technologies such as we Iphone & the Ipad Autodesk Users have been jumping up & down with anticipation for a mobile DWF viewer. Whilst AutoCAD WS was the first mobile cloud technology from Autodesk for true design review collaboration, this really wasn’t gonna cut it for the Revit User. So finally Autodesk sneaked Autodesk Design Review Mobile up onto the Apple App Store yesterday! Hurry for common sense! :-)

You publish your documents to a Autodesk Cloud account where they can then be downloaded to your Ipad or Iphone via the Autodesk Design Review app. Once onto your I-OS device, you can review any multi-page DWF. There is a basic information panel which includes the ability view properties, views, control layers & mark-ups. A simple double arrow allows you to navigate through the various DWF sheets.You can add text mark-ups & callout boxes mark-ups which get saved to the DWF.I haven’t tried it, but one would assume you could publish a DWF from Revit. Send it to a cloud account, download to a Ipad, Iphone, Ipod touch, add mark ups & pass those mark-ups as overlays in Revit. 3d DWFs can be navigated with one or two fingers using the typical pan & zoom functionalities associated with the I-OS.

At present the functionality looks limited, for instance you can’t control the graphic look & feel in 3d views or perspectives. Also, there doesn’t seem to be a magic marker sketch tool, but these are early days. However, these are really early days & I am sure it will come. So if you have an I-OS device, what are you waiting for? Get connected, go to the Apple App store & download Autodesk Design Review Mobile. Suddenly you will have a reason to use your Ipad for more than just Angry Birds. :-)

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/design-review-mobile/id459112753?mt=8

A new waterproof camera for paddlers?

Paddlers always seem to be asking which waterproof camera to buy. That's a symptom of two problems: we aren't thrilled with the cameras we have, and they don't hold up as well as we wish.

Our main needs are high picture quality, video quality, water resistance and ruggedness. Shutter lag is a major drawback. So we were intrigued when Nikon announced last month the imminent release of a new point-and-shoot, waterproof digital camera, the Coolpix AW100. It's not out yet, but the specs look attractive for paddlers.

Nikon's new entry into the waterproof camera market. 

We're assuming that this camera is as waterproof as the others. It claims to be rugged enough to survive a five-foot drop; the recessed lens would certainly help if it face-planted when it fell, but a lens cover would have been a nice addition.

If this camera uses some of the same internal processing as other Nikon cameras, the picture quality should be as good as the specs suggest. (For the full specs, click here.) The video offers full HD as well as slow motion (at reduced resolution), which should be great for technique analysis and revisiting that great ender in the surf. Normal video is 30 frames per second (FPS); the Coolpix can capture video at 60, 120 and 240 FPS.

Shutter lag will still be an issue, but the burst mode allows you to capture three frames per second, giving you a better chance of catching the expression on someone's face when he successfully rolls up.

Since the camera isn't out yet, we can't talk to anyone who has tried it and can attest to its performance, but check out Digital Photography Review for an in-depth assessment of the information available. The comments at the end extend the discussion and provide additional information. 

Bottom line: This camera lists at $379, making it the most expensive point-and-shoot, waterproof digital camera. (DPR recently reviewed them here.) Our Pentax Optio W80s are still functioning after two years, in spite of our griping, but if we had to replace one of them, we'd be tempted to try out this new Coolpix.

If anyone gets one and has a chance to try it out, please let us know what you think.

Donorcycles and the Medico-Insurance Complex

Since everything your mother told you about motorcycles is true, it follows that motorcyclists should have a particular interest in the ongoing debate about the state of American health care and insurance (aka Obamacare, Romneycare, creeping socialism, Nazism...)

Opponents to a public option for Americans' health insurance love to begin their arguments with, "We've got the world's best health care system..."

And in truth, if you're rich and or very well covered by your work plan, you may well have access to the best, or at least world-class health care. But it comes at an enormous price, which you'll be well aware of if you pay for the premiums on your own. And it's not a high-price/high-quality/high-value system. Americans spend far, far more in both absolute and per-capita terms for health care than do the citizens of any other nation. And yet, Americans' health and life expectancy are no better than Lithuanians'.

It turns out that if you are administered a $40 aspirin in an American hospital, it's not any more effective than the four cent one given to a Lithuanian.

This cost affects the entire economy. If you've got a job which provides health coverage, the huge premiums you share with your employer amount to a payroll tax by another name. Over the last 30 years, the percentage of the U.S. GDP devoted to health care has doubled, to nearly 20%. While that growth in the Medico-Insurance Complex has enriched a few people, it's not really a productive use of resources (nor is it really making the people being treated more productive; for starters, about a quarter of all those expenditures are made in the final year of patients' lives.)

You want to talk about a jobs program in an election year in which the economy's in the toilet? The single biggest impediment to job creation is the cost of adding employees to group health plans.

One solution would be to just reduce the amount of care given. That's politically unpalatable. That leaves reducing costs.

You may be thinking, Surely the insurance companies are trying to reduce costs; after all, they're the ones paying the bills.

Wrong-o. In fact, the insurance companies will never, ever, bring America's spiraling health care costs to heel. Why? Because there's simply no incentive at all to do so. There's not even a feedback mechanism in place to encourage them to try.

As a private, uninsured individual, you've got a huge incentive to control costs, because any trip to the hospital is a personal financial catastrophe. (Half of all bankruptcies are caused by medical expenses.) But insurance companies don't hate big payouts. They only hate big unanticipated payouts. So if the levees break in New Orleans and a hurricane does far more damage than the insurance companies expect, that's a problem for them.

Your crash in turn four, that causes you to need $60,000 dollars in orthopedic surgery, probably comes a surprise to you. After all, if you'd known you were going to crash that day, you wouldn't have ridden. And while the health care problems of any one insured person are hard to predict, the health care problems that will occur over a huge population are extremely predictable, and insurance companies have hordes of actuaries to carefully calculate such probabilities.

Once the probabilities are known, insurance companies decide how much they'll pay for related medical services, and set premiums at a level that guarantee profitability. Obviously, health care providers have every incentive to increase costs, and perversely the insurance companies actually benefit from high costs, too.

Insurance companies benefit from high costs? First of all, if you had access to much more affordable health care -- say, you were racing your motorcycle in India, which is where your U.S. emergency-room doctor was trained anyway -- that $60,000 treatment might cost $6,000. In that setting, you might well choose to self-insure. The fact that in the U.S. virtually any treatment is bankruptcy inducing is, in fact, the strongest argument in favor of having insurance. And, since eventually even insurance companies would run afoul of the few remaining regulators if they operated at higher and higher margins, it's only by increasing the gross costs of health care delivery that they can be sure of increasing their net.

So you see, decreasing the cost of health care in the U.S. would actually hurt insurance companies financially. By contrast, denying coverage; that goes straight to the bottom line.

XDXDXD

加了括號反而覺得更XDXDXDXDXDXD

好巧XD

今天加班Q.Q

哭哭

誰知道突然有一推大便要弄........

該死的貼紙XD

就是那種貼在車上的字的貼紙~~~有點厚度的

(我是在CAD裡把他做出來.....不是貼貼紙XD)

而且是突然一堆

嗚


我最討厭做貼紙了......shit.......

因為超多工~~~瘋狂長面跟切面

而且又是一次做兩側今天做的又是4種style就是8個.........乾


做完都8點了Q.Q

座火車肥家~~~~~~~~做的這班電車只到樹林......

我就下來在等下一班車

來了一班電車...........裡面塞滿滿滿滿的人

幹XD

塞到門口都是人

我看到都不想做了........他奶奶的這樣擠到桃園都瘋了

就等下班車


來個莒光

也是人人人人人人

很巧的我上去竟然有位子A0A

坐下去沒多久有人拍我頭........ㄟ鼻涕

我看一下........幹XD

竟然是小誠誠XDXD

高職同學~~~~~不知幾百年沒見過面~~~~~我上車時他既然一眼就認出我XD


超酷的呀~~~~~

他也是加班~~~~~在中和~~~~~~~~

而且他也是看到上班電車人太多才等這班車的

我又剛好上到這車廂被他賭到

超巧的XD


聊了一堆543

重點是他大學有交女友........兩年..........

幹我輸了0rz...............

Love Psychedelico ~ Sad Story

AU2011 – Citrix & Revit

Wanna know more about Citrix & Revit?  Then be sure to check out HOK’s John Bartolomi, Director of IT Services class. He will be giving a presentation at Autodesk University on the virtualization of Revit. Class detail & times are below.

• ID:                          AB4595
• Title:                     Autodesk Revit Virtualization Using Citrix® Technologies
• Date:                     Thursday, Dec 1, 2011
• Time:                    5:15pm
• Duration:             90 minutes

Do As Infinity ~ 真実の歌

2012 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/21/2012-mercedes-benz-sls-amg-roadster-w-video/