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Hi to all. I happened across this excellent forum whilst searching for plans of steam engines. I am a 3d cad strategist, with a background in structural engineering and design. I only recently developed an interest in steam engines when I was using a set of plans as a project to help beta test a new 3d cad product. This got me hooked - I don't have the tools or indeed space to physically build them - so I resorted to the next best thing - virtual building!. So far I have 5 working models 'built' with another in progress.
 
Hugh T,

Welcome to our forum.
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jpg's, pfd's, divx animations. ??? ??? ???..... soon eh ;D :p

Best Regards
Bob
 
Hi Hugh,

Welcome to HMEM. Gotta say, I'm impressed with your creations, even if they are virtual. And the rendering doesn't look half bad!

I just got an email from Autodesk saying they were discontinuing the free edition of Inventor in May. Guess those folks that got hooked on it are now gonna be out some cash to keep using it.

I just bought Alibre Standard and am really starting to get in to it. I might have to see about adding the motion module to it. So far I'm impressed.

Chuck
 
Welcome.

Please tell me a bit more about what a cad strategist does.
I am a mechanical designer with my own business and use 3D CAD (SolidWorks) I suspect that cad strategist is a European phrase.


 
fdew said:
Welcome.

Please tell me a bit more about what a cad strategist does.
I am a mechanical designer with my own business and use 3D CAD (SolidWorks) I suspect that cad strategist is a European phrase.

Hi Frank, thank you - the job description was from my last job - which was in Canada. It is basically cad consultancy with the main difference being to develop a complete 3d cad solution for a company that considers all aspects of a multi-discipline engineering workflow including conceptual design, procurement through to manufacturing and installation. Then advise and setup cad products/procedures that will facilitate their particular requirements. I also troubleshoot systems where companies have invested large sums of money in the cad products and don't get the expected returns - this usually is not a cad specific problem, they have probably not adapted their engineering work-flow and procurement activities and sometimes it is just down to bad procedures.
 
Fascinating. And it sounds like it can be a real challenge.
Getting people to change there way of doing things can call for a lot of psychiatry. ;-)

I understand a bit of what you do as I have introduced CAD to 3 companies before starting my own company.

The first time I bought CAD for a company I spent a lot of time talking to others who had it (This was 1980) I spoke with one company about getting designers to switch. He told me this story.

He had one guy who said "Look! I have been here 30 years, I have seniority, I don't need to put up with this stuff. Transfer me to another department." They explained that jobs were scarce, but if he would stay and learn the system they would transfer him when there was an opening.
Six months later a opening came up. True to his word, his boss transferred him. His reaction? "Look! I have been here 30 years, I have seniority, I know CAD I don't need to put up with this stuff. Don't transfer me to another department."

Frank

 

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