Re: The First No Bull**** Blog Devoted To Telling The Truth About Both CAD And CAM

On Sun, 11 May 2008 20:19:34 -0700 (PDT), jon_banquer
<jon_banquer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>Tired of Matt Lombard's never ending bull**** 

  He nailed you as utterly clueless ("my instructions don’t take
****-for-brains
into account"):

http://dezignstuff.com/blog/2007/07/26/back-to-the-grindstone-sw08-bible/trackback/
[
***Editor’s note:  I have decided to put all of Jon Banquer’s comments
together,
because I want them to be easy to skip over. They’re still here, but they
won’t
show up in the comments list on the right. This is mainly to avoid the
problems
Jon creates where ever he goes. Most of what he posts is either factually
or
conceptually incorrect. Here and there he makes a mistake and says
something
that makes sense. Simple mistake, anyone could do it. I will still simply
delete
any comments which are solely intended to be inflammatory.

Page 174, Tutorial: Making A Simple Drawing. For 2/3 of the page one is
still
working with an assembly.

You should mention that when you start “Tutorial: Making A Simple Drawing”
that
you need to switch to the part rather than stay in the assembly.

This becomes a problem when the reader has to do the section view on page
179.

****I’m sorry you had difficulty with this, but my instructions don’t take
****-for-brains into account. Maybe you should stick to the SolidWorks for
Dummies book, or the new version called SolidWorks for ****ForBrains. It
uses
small words and big type.

The picture quality in the SolidWorks Bible is often so bad you have to
really
struggle to make out the fillet previews. Examples of very difficult to
see
fillet previews can be found on page 234 and 246.

***This is actually valid. I’m surprised. It’s one of my disappointments
too.
Unfortunately this is mostly about the publisher.

The chapter on modeling with Multibodies should appear much sooner than
chapter
26!

In my opinion Multibodies should most certainly appear before Organizing
Assemblies (chapter 12).

Perhaps a good place to introduce Multibodies might be chapter 8.

***Nope. It’s good where it is. People need to know about assemblies
before
multibodies. There should be no confusion. This is why they call you
clueless,
isn’t it? 
]
-- 
Cliff