party shout

sorry folks, back to the old skool here, files are disabled until I can figure out what was going wrong...

Yo, this SolidWorks Animation plug-in is pretty awesome. It's keyframe style animation, so you can change any of a number of parameters (view orientation, location of assembly components, even opacity/transparency of objects) and SolidWorks will interpolate a smooth transition from the previous state. This is really awesome compared to earlier versions, where the only way to animate the model was to do a physical simulation (e.g. a geared system meshing, or a pendulum swinging under gravity). Which meant moot when all you wanted to do was zoom around the model and show different detail views.

The latest update is the ability to animate from a specific camera view, which even has adjustable depth of field, as I was telling Eli. You make a dummy part that acts as a "sled" for the camera, and then you keyframe a path for the sled to travel.

[OK enough geeking out]

I feel that the death of Kurt Cobain was what seperated us from gen X. We're inter-generational... I think that 9/11 may be the defining moment for our generation. Think of all those kids our age in Iraq. It's their war. The war on terror, that's OUR war. It's like all those baby boomers. Maybe the 60s were their decade, but the most defining historical moment in their lives was the beginning of the cold war.

Also, the widespread adoption of the internet (1994ish) could be the defining moment of our generation, although that was supposed to be a gen x thing too...

Personally, I feel our defining moment came on the 6th of February, 2006 when Bill Cowher and the Pittsburgh Steelers won the super bowl.

ok, everything is re-big-ulated. drrr... it would appear that posting threads without titles breaks this shit real hard. I am going to see if I can put some validation on that form.

and the spam that I was speaking about looked like it was coming in through the email system.

I deleted it, I hope that it wasn't important to anybody... Sorry if I deleted your post!

we're starting to get spam?

if you're referring to the spam image that showed up in slot 3 (i think), it's cause I posted it. i thought it was lol.

FUCK... I get a real job, and the same DAY, this stuff breaks...

grrr...

did anyone notice that we were starting to get spam, btw?

I am gonna poke this thing a little more and see what went wrong... it seems like taking away the threads temporarily fixed it.

Well maybe it IS universal enough, and you just don't understand what it's like for my generation. nobody understands the last-month-of-1982 generation, that's all.

if anyone needs to buy a printer:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16828112035

pretty fskin cheap.

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