Re: Solid edge .. progress... new laptop

On Aug 8, 5:29=A0pm, phil scott <p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2:27=A0am, Cliff <Clhupr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:36:41 -0700 (PDT), phil scott
<p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >thanks... =A0that un fuzzes me quite a bit... not so hard paying
> > >maintenance fees if it includes the later releases.
>
> > =A0 BTW, what, if any, tools did they provide for migrating your
> > prior Inventor files, libraries, etc?
>
> they probably have some but i havent looked into it yet
>
> > =A0 And what have you found about vendor-supplied SE
> > models/parts/libraries/etc. for use with SE?
>
> I looked briefly but have forgotten the details...they do have a
> fairly
> large library. =A0for myself its not overly critical as I will be
> designing my
> own generic types of model pumps, compressors and etc..a few comon
> valves
> and the like, frames and weldments and using those mostly.
>
> it will be a fairly limited library but more specialized... i can draw
> up most of
> it from scratch in a day or two. =A0then just scale the parts to fit the
> latest
> project... many will be ocomplex though, sectionable to show internals
> in many
> cases so my details and 'walk through's' will be hot.
>
> I hope with synchrous I can get some of the more complex items from
> the manufacturers.
> things like big screw compressors, showing all internals.... that sort
> of thing is not
> going to be in the typical cad vendors library... but via online links
> to mfgrs.
>
> **
> I did a phone interview for a salary job today...pays about half as
> much as I make free lancing..but I did the interview hoping not to
> hear the usual mealy mouth blather and assinine questions. =A0 =A0they
> wanted serious talent...but still I couldnt bring myself to speak
> to the guy.. he spent the first 5 minutes jabbering about how sorry he
> was for calling me 4 minutes late.
>
> I cant even be civil with most of those in the A and E bidness
> anymore. . I told the guy when he asked resume questions..., 'its
> written in perfect english, read it'... he went into shock for a
> minute I think.
>
> Im only dealing with end users and contractors these days... now the
> recruiter hates my guts, I was mean as hell with him also.
>
> Something is wrong with the entire scene... you have people with
> marginal or no skill sets or life experience trying to hire or manage
> talent with various coersions... =A0wall to wall bogusness... its
> decimated american industry I think.
>
> and they want it cheap by the hour, never mind that you could get the
> job done in half a day by yourself.. they want to hire an office full
> of idiots to do it in 6 months so they can bill the client cost plus.
>
> Phil scott
>
> > =A0 And what of your downstream users (fabrication & etc.)?
> > Can you easily translate your files for their needs?
> > --
> > Cliff

Professionalism works.

& who knows that you might not wind up being able to hire your own
small group of guys to help do a project if required?

More than one way to skin a retard.