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AUGI's New Logo - Yuk!
Have you seen AUGI's new logo? The old logo was a
stylized globe. The new logo - two interlocking
polygons. Are those two heads? Two countries? Is it
a Rorsharch test for Autodesk users?
I know that logos get dated, but it is tiresome...every
year with the new logo. Autodesk changes their logo
annually, or so it seems. It used to be that your
company logo was like a brand...you wanted people to
be able to identify it. A logo was never supposed to be
a fashion statement.
I never understood spending thousands of dollars to
some consultant to develop a piece of artwork that
your company will use for a couple of years and then
toss aside...and the party (champagne and caviar all
around!) launching...not a new product...the shiny new
logo.
It just seems like a waste of time, money, and a lot of
hoo-haw. My favorite logos....the C&H sugar cane -
simple, easy to find on the shelf, the Morton Salt girl
with umbrella (with very little updating - she's been
around since 1914), and Mr. Peanut of Planters fame. I
like the Dodge logo - just a nice bold font, it seems to
embody sturdy and reliable. There's a lot to be said for
having a sense of history and wanting to participate in
it...instead of wasting time and money on logos that
will be "so last year" before they are even out of the
box.
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Greetings!
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Free Engineering Seminar Series
Santa Clara University Department of Mechanical
Engineering Invites the Public to the Winter 2006
Seminar Series
Time: Every Wednesday, from 4:00 - 5:00PM
Location: Bannan Engineering, Room 326
Attendance: Seminars are open to the general public.
Spaces are limited.
More information on the series.... »
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Another Way to Open a Window
Thanks to Ken Krupa who emailed me this tip to open
another window of your Internet Explorer when
selecting a link...
Do you know that you can open a new window on
demand, by doing a Shift-Click on the link? I find this
much better than changing the setting and getting a
new window every time you click a link.
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Buy Mesh to Solid - Get IntelliCAD Free
Sycode has launched an interesting promotion. You
buy their Mesh to Solid Plug-in and also get a "free"
seat of IntelliCAD for $195.00. Given that a seat of
IntelliCAD runs in that price range (or less), you really
are paying for both packages. It's kind of like a car
dealer selling you a set of four super duper tires and
then throwing in the rest of the car for free.
IntelliCAD, for those who are clueless, is a knock-off of
AutoCAD. Uses all the same commands as AutoCAD,
even uses lisp routines. The big problem I have had
with IntelliCAD is that the latest version is too similar to
R12 and I have been spoiled by all the new features
Autodesk has come up with in the past decade.
Features like the sheet set manager, the ability to save
page set-ups for plotting, and battman.
However, if you liked R12 and don't care about the
fancy shmancy gee-whiz feel of AutoCAD, you will LOVE
the price of IntelliCAD, not to mention the ability to
read, write, view, edit to DWG format. Think of
IntelliCAD as AutoCAD Retro.
More interesting to me are some of the other plug-ins
Sycode offers...a few of them are well worth checking
out...especially if you do terrain work, work with Rhino
and AutoCAD, or are looking to power up your existing
seat of AutoCAD for mesh/solid work without upgrading
to 2007.
Check out this and other products from Sycode... »
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Placing a Hole on a Chamfered Edge in Inventor
Mike Malloy emailed me to get help...he wanted to
place a hole on a chamfered edge in Inventor and
couldn't figure out how to do it.
It helps if you understand that in order for Inventor to
place a hole it needs a work plane to place the hole.
The hole is extruded perpendicular into the work plane.
A chamfered or curved surface is problematic.
This doesn't mean it can't be done...you just need to
understand some basic techniques. Check out the
tutorial below to help you figure out how to place holes
on curved or chamfered edges with ease.
Download the tutorial... »
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