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You need to swap the 2 and 3 over to make it a proper dice. (Opposite sides should add to 7). Nice example though. - IntelliCAD

LOL :D) - IntelliCAD

Heh Deelip, make sure to photograph just how you manage, using your car, to park a tyre on the J, K & L keys whilst you hit the power button ;-) - IntelliCAD

Rakesh, Over time I have come to the conclusion that the HP dealer sitting here in Goa is a complete nut job when it comes to trouble shooting. I bought this laptop while I was on a holiday in Singapore. I have already mentally prepared myself to drive my car over this laptop if and when the need arises. - IntelliCAD

Looks like HP notebooks have problems everywhere. My last laptop was HP and it had several interesting and entertaining problems appearing one after the other. First, the battery died COMPLETELY after just 6 months and it worked on mains power only thereafter. Next, the cusror started to jump around randomly whle at work. No, no virus at work. It went to HP Service twice but they could not fix it, although each time, they gave an intelligent sounding explanation and claimed to have fixed it. And finally, the display started giving streaks of funny colored lines, each of which changed patterns every 4 weeks. Now, I have a DELL and things are much better. - Rakesh - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2009-12-31): Autodesk chuckles at SolidWorks' fear-mongering - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2010-01-05): Complete text of Autodesk's press release - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2009-12-30): Judge agrees that orange rectangles are generic - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2009-12-29): Judge orders that the trademarketness of DWG go to jury - IntelliCAD

A settlement agreement was reached literally in the middle of the night before the trial was to start Tuesday morning. The settlement agreement is confidential, but there are some consequences of the agreement worth mentioning, and that I'm sure will be discussed in more detail over the coming weeks. The issue of Autodesk's attempt to trademark "DWG" must still be resolved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. I suspect that Autodesk was hoping to use the lawsuit to gain some new advantage in the trademark fight, but I think if anything they lost ground, so it will be interesting to see where the trademark fight goes. - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2010-01-01): Judge rules Autodesk's anti-"SolidWorks" cartoons A-OK - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2009-12-31): Judge undecided on use of puffery by SolidWorks - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2010-01-05): Update: What the court's decision means - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2010-01-05): What's next for Autodesk vs DWG? - IntelliCAD

WorldCAD Access (2009-12-31): SolidWorks accuses Autodesk of attempting to monopolize use of .dwg as file extension - IntelliCAD

Law.com (2010-01-06): Novel Trademark Case Name Settles With Last-Minute Drama - IntelliCAD

A couple of people have expressed interest. Are you interested as well? - IntelliCAD

You gave your contact in a article titled "Experts wanted". Got any applications :) - IntelliCAD

Oh my goodness, it worked. (I had to plug in a USB key with Linux Mint to boot the tx1000, since I had pulled the hard drive, as noted earlier.) - IntelliCAD

Great! Now I am getting ideas for my HP laser printer in office. At times it goes into a trance and indefinitely starts cleaning itself. - IntelliCAD

Yeah, what we sometimes do can be very scary. But then, when you are in tht state of mind, you really don't give a damn. - IntelliCAD

Years ago (early 70's), Deelip, whilst brake testing a new bus the onboard HP instruments logging and transmitting data from the bus stopped working. The testing authority and owners of the gear did not know the cause and with a very tight schedule for the test track I had no time to waste waiting for them as they scratched their heads. I opened up their 'black box' and whilst fiddling around the system started so I deduced a cracked circuit (motherboard) was the problem - vibrations passed thru' from testing I thought. So I rolled, tightly, a piece of news paper, forced it under the circuit board, 'forced' my office boy to sit in the passenger seat of the vehicle with the system on his lap (shock absorber) and completed all the high speed, fully loaded brake tests with no more delay. I too am a mechanical design guy; sometimes with electronics it helps to know how to 'bend' things to get electrons to flow. But a question remains how many times can you 'lean' on you computer before... - IntelliCAD

cool i like this post! It's amazing! thanks a lot! - IntelliCAD

This is with Intellicad Pro 6.6.52 Trying to set tick marks at elevations on a XY grid. Ortho and Snap are off. Here's what I did: 1: New drawing, WCS, draw a 10' spaced grid on layer "Grid" 2: Made a block "Point" consisting of (3) 4" lines, intersecting at mid points at each of the 3 orthogonal directions. Insert point is the lines intersection. 3: Inserted point using .z, keying in the Z coordinate, and clicking on a grid intersection with intersection Osnap on. All other parameters (scale, e… - IntelliCAD

Good luck. but keep a hammer close by. You might just need it. - IntelliCAD

The same happened to my HP tx1000-series -- twice! First time it cost me $446 for the repair by HP, which my credit card's extended warranty paid for. The repair included a 90-day warranty. (I can get a brand new notebook computer for that price with a 1-yr warranty!) Because Vista on the tx1000-series is so sluggish, I didn't use it much, preferring my faster and quieter LG netbook running Linux Mint. After 4-5 months, I fired up the tx again, and same problem. HP again offered to charge me $46 to repair the same problem. Judging from the responses of their tech support person, I suspect he knew that the overheated motherboard is a fundamental design flaw, but could do nothing to help me. I have since removed some of the parts, such as turning the 200GB drive into a portable drive (with a $30 enclosure), and installing one of its 2GB RAM modules in my son's notebook. I'll have to try the palm trick you describe. - IntelliCAD

True, that series is more than a year old. Come to think of it, maybe I should do a comparison of a few features of the three mid-range MCAD systems. Probably thrown in Alibre Design as well. I need to find the time to do all that first. - IntelliCAD

Deelip, I'm just an SE user. :-) These articles (ST) were written more than 1 year ago. :-( I think SE offer a good technology, but you never compare it to other products. Anyway I like to read these posts and comments! - IntelliCAD

imics13, Do I hate Siemens PLM? No way. I love them. My company has been a Solid Edge Voyager Partner for years and developing add-ins for Solid Edge. Maybe you missed my series on Synchronous Technology (http://www.deelip.com/?p=192). As far as NX is concerned, I have asked Siemens PLM for access to the product. But somehow that has not happened till date. Not exactly sure why. - IntelliCAD

Hi Deelip, Do you hate Siemens PLM? You never write about Solid Edge ST2 or NX! :-( Do you boycott these products? - IntelliCAD