SolidWorks World presentation - Curvy Stuff 6, the basics of loft - finally ready to download

A mere two and a half months later than I promised it, "Curvy Stuff 6"
from SWx World 2007 is now available for download on www.dimontegroup.com.

Just click the "SolidWorks Tutorials" tab under the "About Us" heading
(the middle left of the page)
Even if you have already downloaded this presentation from another
source, come by and download the previously unavailable sample files
so you can experiment with them and analyze them.

As always, we request that you restrict your downloads during the
business week to before 8:00 AM or after 5:00 PM central time, US. On
weekends, consider downloading to be fair game.

We at DiMonte Group are happy to share our tutorials, but first we are
a business and need our bandwidth during our business hours to service
our customers. We provide these files as a courtesy to the larger
SolidWorks community - please reciprocate that courtesy by downloading
when it won't impact our business. Thanks!

Ed 'Sorry about the delay" Eaton



PS: A note about that delay-
We used to have a talented guy work on our website, but he is no
longer available to us. In my ignorance about website design, I
thought it would take only a couple of weeks to figure out how to
simply add a link to a new tutorial.
It turned out that the site wasn't really set up for quick changes.
So I have spent the last two and a half months trying, embarrassingly,
to learn what many high school students already know and design a web
sites essentially from scratch.
It turns out that web sites are about as fascinatingly complicated as
getting a loft to 'go'. When one considers the particulars of various
browsers, very little makes sense. Look it up - it's weird.
So, the plus side is this site should render well in Firefox and
safari for the first time - I don't know about 'Opera' or other
browsers with smaller user bases and would love feedback through the
'contact us' page.

And, since I rewrote the site for easy changes and updates, I was able
to add content that I always wished should be there, and I can add
stuff at my whim for the first time. So keep popping by every few
months or so, because there may be some useful additions.
Ed

 

I'm not so wound up about the delay, I'm just glad yo uput in the effort.
Thanks!

 

Ed,

great stuff as usual. Thanks for your efforts over the years - I've
learnt a lot and I've made sure that my acolytes (for want of a better
word) visit your tutorials as a matter of course.

 

Well I came back for a quick browse today and behold... good ol' Ed
has posted a new curvystuff...

Thanks very much

I hope all is well with you and yours Mr Eaton

 

Thanks to you (and others) for forgiving my delay.

Fortunately, this will be the last time I have to depend on someone
else to post stuff as it comes up - it took 150 hours to learn, test,
and rewrite, but now I am beholden to no one.
I like knowing that I can now post files whenever I get around to it
because... I felt weird being 36 and being completely oblivious about
what a lot of high-school students already know - how to do web
design. I am glad I finally had the impetus to take the plunge.
Plus., there are neat little tidbits in my archive of SWx tips that I
am itching to make available (after, of course, I am done with the
next trebuchet), so keep an eye out in June or July.

Note to others with websites: in my research, I wanted to install a
private counter of some kind so I could see if all the effort of
annotating these presentations was really worth it. I explored a
bunch of options, then in a snit over my ignorance of PHP and stuff
relating to the /cgi.bin, I just went with gooogle analytics, thinking
I could delete it whenever.

Google analytics: in a word- Woah. It rocks

I'm glad that Google has included in their business plan to 'do no
evil' because those folks, for free, can do amazing things. When they
decide to shift gears and take over the world, it is theirs for the
taking.

It has been a blast over the last 4 days watching the worldwide
distribution of the tutorials (overlaid on a map, no less!). Informed
only by this newsgroup (I have yet to post to other groups because,
frankly, this was my first group and will always be my sentimental
favorite. I hate that the conversation about SWx is now fractured
so), I have seen how widespread and numerous the lurkers on this group
really are.

For those wondering about how much their post to this group matters,
just consider this: only three people have responded to my post (which
is good - don't say anything unless you have something to add).

countries.

There was the expected distribution (based on language and on
posters): The States, UK, Australia, New Zealand. It was fun trying to
figure out which of the regulars downloaded from which hometowns - the
towns are available through google analytics.

But there were the surprises - for instance, until today, we had more
hits from Iran than from Canada - THAT I didn't expect. I'm glad that
the political BS (which I don't care for) goes to the wayside when it
comes to figuring out how we can all do our jobs better.

So hello to you all - Italy, Estonia, China, Indonesia, Mexico,
Thailand, Spain, Austria, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Brazil, Japan,
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, Israel,
Turkey, Germany, France, Croatia, and of course Canada and Iran, plus
any others I forgot to acknowledge.
It's good to know just how deep and diverse our lurker community
really is.
As a lurker these last few months, I can really appreciate that a post
here does go out to a number of folks, beyond the vocal 'usual
suspects' (and knowing the wide variety of folks who are benefiting
from comp.cad.solidworks, I should probably avoid using culturally
specific references in future posts like 'the usual suspects')
My eyes have been opened

Ed

 

"2nd, Curvy Stuff 5, Part 2 (Curvy Stuff 5 - The Wrath of Scotty, 2)
doesn't
download, when RMB on link, the page is just saved as a .html file."

OK, feeling stupid now - I have no excuse for missing that (but I wish
I did).
It should be fixed, along with a few others that were linking to html
files instead of zip files.
Sorry about the runaround, and let me know if there are other
mistakes.

Thanks!
Ed

 

Thanks, Ed. I don't mind the wait too much. I just wish I could have been
there. Maybe next year...

Jerry Steiger