I'm so glad that I use Inventor

[karthur1]

I have been using Inventor since R4. I got my hands on an evaluation copy of SW '08 Student Design Kit. I've been going through the tutorials trying to learn it. It takes me much longer to do anything with SW compared to IV, but I am just learning it. There are more clicks just to do simple commands.


One thing that I do like is the fillet (chamfer) command. Being able to pick a surface and the fillet(chamfer) goes all the way round it is pretty nice. Right now, that is the ONLY thing that I have found that I like better than Inventor.

[Anonymous]

I can see them fine using MS Outlook news reader.
"Gary R Smith (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:6053753@discussion.autodesk.com...
> You guys are missing the boat.

I'm trying to find out:

- what issues have been resolved
- what issues are being worked
- known issues with various readers
- what the status is with posting/seeing file attachments

If I find anything out, I'll let everyone know.

Thanks!

- G

[Anonymous]

Not sure if you wanted responses here Gary...

WinXP, SP2

Internet Explorer does not display pics, have to click on the link to
download or view first - doesn't always work however, as JD mentioned I
think it depends on the orientation of the planets or something.

On the nntp side;
I cannot always establish a connection to download headers or retrieve
messages. This is off and on all day. Seems I can connect about 50%
of the time. During the time I cannot retrieve headers or messages, I
am able to post messages however.

"Outlook Express" displays pictures and I can download other attachments

"Claws Mail" displays pictures and I can download other attachments

"Pan" displays pictures and I can download other attachments

For the nntp side, my comments are the same from a Linux O.S.
concerning establishing a connection to retrieve headers and messages
and the same comments I made about the "Claws Mail" and "Pan"
newsreaders.

FYI,

Thanks for looking into for everybody.

--
Inventor 10 Series
SP3a + TS1069046 (Inventor Text Broken By Microsoft update)

[ampster40]

forgot to mention, the text formatting is hosed as well when viewed thru Internet Explorer. However, thru all nntp clients I've used, the text formatting appears good.

[Anonymous]

Awesome!

If anyone else has particulars regarding your "broken" experience, add them
here!

Thanks!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

[punisher]

I appreciated your post.

> ...but I wonder why Autodesk does not push Inventor.... Inventor is such an amazing Titan, that no advertising is necessary.
>
> It was rather hard to concentrate on those explanations as the band started to play louder and the ship deck began to tilt rather noticeably.

Perhaps it is aginst Autodesk poilcy to advertise. What I know is that as I have been searching for jobs (to jump out of Civil into back into Manufacturing), I hear SO MUCH SW that I can't believe it.
I only know of 1 Company here in NW FL that uses Inventor. It's PRO-E, then SW, then CATIA, and then AutoCAD straight.

Seriously, I tried selling Inventor in Japan.
I love this product, it's amazing. I'm not a sales man, but I tried while I was there. Mostly so I would then be more employable.

I'd sweep floors at Autodesk before I would design at SolidWorks. (same pay of course).

Punisher
http://1punisher.wordpress.com

[j_madison]

I'm having two issues every day:

1. The forum will never, ever, "Remember Me" for login. I check the box and it ignores it.

2. Clicking on JPG files always forces a download of the jpg instead of opening it in the browser.

I'm using WinXP SP2 and FireFox 3... but that shouldn't really matter if the site was standards compliant.

By the way, to all those who prefer to use a news reader, great. I'm glad things work for you. I, for one, really prefer to use the http newsgroups.

[j_madison]

Replying to my own thread: I just discovered another problem. There are no paragraphs in my post. To test, I'll press enter twice now

This line should have one white space line above it.


This line should have two white space lines above it.

So, wonder how this will look when I press "Post Message"

[kstate92]

I work at one of seven rather small companies that are part a holding company. My company is the only one that uses IV. Even more troubling is that I'm the only one in my company that actually uses IV! The vast majority of work all the companies do is still in plain 2D AutoCAD, but the solid modeling popularity contest was won by SW with IV (and me by association) not making it out of the auditions.

[msklein]

I don't know what you are talking about i see lots of jobs for IV in Florida. Jobs are all over the place, north ,south, Atlantic and gulf cost even the pan handle and gatter ally. All most all are requiring locals only and pay 17-25 hr for Sr Designers. Almost all were short contracts only, few direct hire jobs. Also at one time most were requiring 5 yrs experience when IV had only been out 4 yrs. I have found around 4 or 5 that were worth applying for, 2 told me i was not local, 1 changed the job description to an Illustrator and so on. Want out of Silicon Valley. Oh and by the way i started on IV way back in 2000.

msk

Tallahassee has at least one.

[msklein]

I found remember me only works for logon name not password. It also logs me out all the time,on top of being snall slow.

msk

[punisher]

> I don't know what you are talking about....Jobs are all over the place, ....gulf cost even the pan handle
Do you mind clueing me in on who in Okaloosa County?

John
http://1punisher.wordpress.com

[Anonymous]

They don't work for me. I use OE too.
Igor.

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"Dennis Jeffrey" wrote in message
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They work here using OE

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Autodesk Manufacturing Implementation Certified Expert.
Instructor/Author/Sr. App Engr.
AIP 2008 SP2, AIP 2009-SP1 PcCillin AV
HP zv5000 AMD64 2GB - Geforce Go 440, Driver: .8185
XP Pro SP2, Windows XP Silver Theme
http://teknigroup.com

[Anonymous]

Gary-along with everything else, the "Save Now" button on the message window doesn't work either, and I have yet to find the option to flag a message as a question. IE7, Ken

[SBix26]

Using the web side exclusively, attachments are sometimes available and sometimes not, using both IE 6 (work) and Firefox 3 (home). Some days I can open attachments, some days I get the "An (sic) general error has occurred..." message on every attachment.

Echoing many other users, I would like graphic attachments (jpg, tiff, png, etc.) to open directly in the browser instead of another application.

Sam

[kstate92]

> {quote:title=msklein wrote:}{quote}I found remember me only works for logon name not password. It also logs me out all the time,on top of being snall slow.
>
> msk Me too, but if I hit the tab key, IE7 fills in the password field correctly. Then I hit the Submit key and I'm in. As to why those two actions aren't done AUTOMATICALLY, I have no clue. I wonder if using Opera would work any better... Oh, and the slowness? It's not a bug, it's a feature! It allows one to pause and be self-introspective. Very Zen.

[Anonymous]

Gary,
You probably need to start a new thread on this topic, but since you
asked..... here goes.

1. The only thing that I can do from the HTTP side is view messages. Notice
I said messages, not images. Images are shown in the IE7 browser as the
Square with a red "X" in the middle. I can right-click on the image name
and chose "Open in new tab". The new tab opens and sometimes I can see the
image, but most of the time I get a Jive Forum 5 error saying "An general
error occurred while processing your request.". Very frustrating.
2. I have to login every freaking time I look at the newsgroup. I have the
"Remember me" checked, but I still have to enter the password.
3. If I sign-out, then sign-in as a different user, at the top of the page
it says "Welcome (my name here)". The name never changes. It always keeps
the name of the first one that signed in.
4. The biggest issue that I have is not being able to post from my
workstation. See my post from October 3 (More troubles with this forum).
http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=6044403#6044403.
When I try to post, I get an error in the bottom left corner that says
"Error:Object doesn't support this property or method".
5. When viewing messages on the forum, all the text is ran together in the
message. There is no spaces to seperate out the paragraphs.
6. When viewing the messages, all of the replys are left justified. There
is no indentation to help identify which message the poster is replying to.
Makes it very time consuming to read. Old forum had indentation.
7. When I add a thread to my watch list and something is added to the
thread, I get an email letting me know something has been added to the
thread and in the email the new text is shown. If the post was done from
nttp, then I can read it. If the post was done from the http side, there is
so much html formatting in the message it is not worth the while to try and
figure it all out. When I click on the link in the email and go to the
message, I have to read through the entire thread just to find what is new.
On the old forum, the new messages were marked with the word NEW in red bold
text.
8. If I post from the nttp side, on the left, it just shows my user id.
Like where yours just says "Gary R. Smith\(...". If I post from the http
side, it shows my user id as well as total number of posts and registered
date. Doesn't really matter, just be consistent.

Thanks,
Kirk


"Gary R Smith (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:6053953@discussion.autodesk.com...
Awesome!

If anyone else has particulars regarding your "broken" experience, add them
here!

Thanks!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

[Anonymous]

UPDATE:

The team is actively working on the intermittent attachment problem and the
line break issue.

I suspect there are going to be classes of issues that will exist for some
readers/browsers/operating systems that will not be resolved any time soon.

It was pointed out that spam volume is approaching zero - for which I am
grateful.

I would encourage you to continue being patient and if you are experiencing
issues: please post with as many specifics as possible.

Thanks!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

[Anonymous]

Gary,

I had rather have the spam than all the troubles we are having now.
Patience is also approching zero.

Thanks for the update.


"Gary R Smith (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:6054486@discussion.autodesk.com...
UPDATE:

The team is actively working on the intermittent attachment problem and the
line break issue.

I suspect there are going to be classes of issues that will exist for some
readers/browsers/operating systems that will not be resolved any time soon.

It was pointed out that spam volume is approaching zero - for which I am
grateful.

I would encourage you to continue being patient and if you are experiencing
issues: please post with as many specifics as possible.

Thanks!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

[msklein]

I'm using Ie,netscape and firefox all work the same for this discussion group.

[msklein]

Don't know about Okaloosa County, i'm hopefully going to be an Ex-Californian soon so i don't know about counties in Florida. But If you mean the job in Tallahassee, i never got the name of the company from the head hunter after submitting a resume. Last time i wasted my time talking to him the company was redefining the job title and description. I spent over 6 weeks working on this job, trying to get an interview and information on the company and job along with product,

msk
I found most around St Petersburg and near Disney