Web-site looks slick Alex.. adn the work you're doing educating people is excellent as always. Shame Mr Banquer always manages to sound slightly unhinged when it starts off so nicely..

Al Dean

Alex,

The new theme LOOKS GREAT! Keep up the good work!

Ricky

This is a great site, and the new look is nice. Still finding myself coming back again and again to refresh myself on your "Drawing Standards"

The site looks great and cool.

Right on man. lookin' FRESH. Ignore the inescapable rudeness of some and keep the educating content flowing man.

Looking good, Alex! Happy New Year!

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I added your blog to a bookmark!
the post Excellent but your design no correctly displayed on my mozile and badly read . But I suppose that I have temporary problems with the Internet. please Write more. but I will try to build system and i will be happy to read more.

Alex I am new to your site and like what I see. I am a Pro-e user (75% design time) and SolidWorks user (25% of design time) and can use any information on making my time faster and easier. Thanks for the tips and information. Keep up the good work.

It's a very nice look, Alex. Certainly much better than my blog! Too bad the nice look doesn't cover what the problems in SolidWorks are and what needs to be done to fix them. That would take balls and experience with actually making and doing extensive modification to parts designed by others.

For sure your SolidWorks mentor doesn't have the needed experience and it shows.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA

Al,

Perhaps it's because it's next to impossible to get to the truth when it comes to CADCAM and I get sick of the never ending B.S. Frankly I think this is why so many people read my blog.

If you read my blog you will notice I have nothing to say about projects like the vaporware foisted as Inventor-Fusion and instead I concentrate on the needed improvements in industry standard products like Mastercam and SolidWorks.

Additionally my blog is the only blog on the net that explains to users what the real problem with SpaceClaim and CoCreate is. It's the kind of info that can't be found anywhere else and sadly that includes your Develop 3D site.

If you’re looking for me to be more positive you will find the focus of my positive feedback on the people who are really making a difference in CADCAM. That would be:

Steve Wilson of CIM Integraters who has created video training for DP Technology Esprit and Mike Mattera of Tips For Manufacturing who does video training for Mastercam.

Note that my blog is only blog that covers and reviews the tremendous work that these two individuals have done.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/

Yeah.. OK Jon. Your opinion is better than everyone elses. We get that bit.

Cheers

Al

What's "inescapable" is the lack of content and the willingness to discuss the real problems with CADCAM software. Instead the focus is on how a blog looks. No where is this more true than on SolidWorks bloggers sites who don't have the guts to tell it like it is on SolidWorks problems working with non-native solids and on SolidWorks utter lack of collaboration tools. This situation has been going on for over ten years in SolidWorks and it simply doesn’t get any more “rude” than this.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/

Jon,

You will remember in our dealings in alt.cad, I always responded to you with the highest level of respect. I believe that you should always treat others with differing views as you would want them to treat you, especially in a public forum like the usenet. But now you have done the equivalent of coming into my house, insulting my family, kicking the dog and pissing in the fish tank. And for what? Because I want to share my experience and knowledge with others?

I am not a SolidWorks apologist. No CAD software is perfect. But instead of concentrating on the drawbacks of the most popular 3D CAD package in the world, I try to teach users how to use the tools available to them. It is not to say that other CAD packages are not better. I am sure there are others that would completely blow SolidWorks out of the water but they are not what I and my readers use on a daily basis. If you feel that your CAD package is so great, awesome! Talk about it, write about, show your friends...make the case for it's place in the engineering world...on your blog. Don't come to my blog and try to start a flame war just because I choose to teach SolidWorks.

I do not believe in censorship and I do not want to delete your comments and ban you but I must respectfully ask that you refrain from making my home a pigsty like you made alt.cad.

Alex R. Ruiz

Very Professional - clear, respectful, non-apologetic. Nice job!

Unfortunately, there are guys like Jon in the world. They truly believe in their irrational rants. He is notorious for going on and on, complaining for the sake of complaining. Does it make the CAD world a better place? Does it make SW better/worse? No!

Why? Because its all in the numbers. You will always have the "jons" of the world that are rude, irrational and not quite connected with mainstream engineering. They tend to muddy the waters but are generally ignored.

I am not implying he isn't a good engineer or a bad person. I don't know him personally.

I only have seen his rants over the years. Sad, really.

Keep up the good work, Alex. In the end, its your blog, you can do or say whatever you want.

derrek

Derrek wrote:

"I am not implying he <Jon> isn't a good engineer"

Jon isn't an engineer, he is a self proclaimed high school drop out, CNC Programmer/Machinist.

This guy has been posing as a SolidWorks CAD/CAM expert for more than ten years but just last year he admitted he didn't know SolidWorks. Jon stated a year ago that SolidWorks had changed much in ten years where he needed to buy SolidProfessor and SolidWorks Bible in order to become competent enough to use it at his new job.

Larryroser

Well done Alex.

The facts are the facts, Alex. That you and other SolidWorks loyalists don't like the facts is not something I can control. I'm not going to sugar coat the massive flaws in history based modeling to make you and the rest of the SolidWorks bloggers / history based modeling loyalists happy.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.wordpress.com/