On Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 10:35:48 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

> Imagine calculating the stress on a gear tooth in a differential, or
> the dynamic pressure distribution in the exhaust manifold. The
> software to do that won't be free or easy to learn.

To learn? Are you gonna trust a software sales pitch, or are you
gonna WRITE the software? Heck, I've had cause to rewrite SPICE on
occasion, there's nothing confidence-building in storebought software.

Case in point: has the stupidquotes bug been fixed recently, that you've
noticed? Even technophobes (my sister, for one) have seen that one.

On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 12:57:30 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 10:35:48 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
>
>> Imagine calculating the stress on a gear tooth in a differential, or
>> the dynamic pressure distribution in the exhaust manifold. The
>> software to do that won't be free or easy to learn.
>
>To learn? Are you gonna trust a software sales pitch, or are you
>gonna WRITE the software? Heck, I've had cause to rewrite SPICE on
>occasion, there's nothing confidence-building in storebought software.

Just the data entry part of a mechanical or thermal analysis program
is likely more than you'd want to take on; like rewriting SolidWorks.
A schematic is trivial compared to a differential.

Learning how to use SolidWorks isn't trivial. Do you use SolidWorks?

>
>Case in point: has the stupidquotes bug been fixed recently, that you've
>noticed? Even technophobes (my sister, for one) have seen that one.

What's that?

On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 11:36:04 AM UTC-7, John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 12:57:30 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at 10:35:48 AM UTC-7, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
> >
> >> Imagine calculating the stress on a gear tooth in a differential, or
> >> the dynamic pressure distribution in the exhaust manifold. The
> >> software to do that won't be free or easy to learn.
> >
> >To learn? Are you gonna trust a software sales pitch, or are you
> >gonna WRITE the software? Heck, I've had cause to rewrite SPICE on
> >occasion, there's nothing confidence-building in storebought software.

> >Case in point: has the stupidquotes bug been fixed recently, that you've
> >noticed? Even technophobes (my sister, for one) have seen that one.

> What's that?

ASCII and typewriters use single-quote (apostrophe) and double-quote, but printers distinguish
left-curved and right-curved variants (left-quote is reverse from right-quote).
And then a smart editor decides which one you want, and suddenly you've got
escape sequences or unicode characters that you didn't type. MS and Apple and
Linux and printer fonts and reader softwares: there's dozens of ways to mess up an apostrophe.

A couple of years ago, I had a solution to get a Macintosh database printout to
render a proper possessive apostrophe when viewed on an Android phone, but...
I can't find my notes, and it's broken again.

> Just the data entry part of a mechanical or thermal analysis program
> is likely more than you'd want to take on; like rewriting SolidWorks.
> A schematic is trivial compared to a differential.
>
> Learning how to use SolidWorks isn't trivial. Do you use SolidWorks?

Read-only, yeah, but for composition, I've just watched the mechanical guys jockey around.
When I need geometry, I make a coordinate system and compute dot products, normal vectors...
doing the same thing on a computer instead of on paper isn't a big leap.

whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1d90daaf-c5de-4a41-8569-9b54618a43f9n@googlegroups.com:

>> Learning how to use SolidWorks isn't trivial. Do you use
>> SolidWorks?
>
> Read-only, yeah, but for composition, I've just watched the
> mechanical guys jockey around. When I need geometry, I make a
> coordinate system and compute dot products, normal vectors...
> doing the same thing on a computer instead of on paper isn't a big
> leap.
>

Solid Edge. Siemens' product is much better. They even do EDA now
too.