Dearest Clem, (this is not a Dear John letter, yet),
You may notice me playing around on here and wonder "Why isn't he creating
parts in the Part Builder?". I am looking at this a little every day. I
cannot bring myself to devote all my time to it since I'm finding the Parts
Builder is dumb and static in all the ways that C3D is smart and "dynamic".
Part modeling is apparently not accomplished in a methodology that we know
and love in Autocad. You seem to draw shapes or "profiles" hap-hazardly,
the way Dave Simeone draws pipe networks in the webcasts... THEN you
"dimension" (not our dimension), add modifiers (why draw what you want in
the first place, right?), and create and define (and re-define, and
associate and re-associate) every possible parameter even though they seem
obvious and redundant. Then, you can finally add some lists or tables with
optional sizes, then you can define the actual insertion point of the baby
you've just given birth to through the smallest oriface you have (it's very
painful, at first, for me, so far, ad infinium, ad nauseum). Create a .bmp
for displaying in the pick list, and you're done... Throw into the mix the
variable transition of the FES (I don't know for sure, but varying slopes at
the "B" dimesion on the detail drawing may or may not happen) and I'm
scaring myself just thinking about it. But I am thinking about it and
devising a plan of attack. I'll need alot of medics, I fear, there will be
casualties.
Oh well, I offered and I'll try to honor that offer (honor, offer, offer,
honor ever heard that one?).
I will not fear, fear is the mind-killer, the little death. I will bend like
a reed in the wind,
JD
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