My day at work

[Dan]

Thursday was my birthday so Friday I wasn't feeling good but had to go to work at 8am. I'm making CAD drawings for an engineering company but nobody really keeps tabs on what I'm doing. I just get projects and work on them until they're done. That might take a month or two. The other plus side is that my desk is upstairs from the machine shop and it's very easy to hear anybody coming up. So I managed to have 0 productivity all Friday.

Instead of modelling stainless steel plates with hole patterns and washers and boring stuff like that, I modelled a trebuchet and then used the physics simulation to make it work. I also read up on all sorts of crazy going ons in the internet. I think that the adult working world is not for me.

 

[Beerdude26]

Please send me the trebuchet.

 

[Dan]

It's at work

 

[63]

Go get it!

 

[Beerdude26]

Damn.

 

[bbson john]

What are you doing that with? ProDesktop?

 

[Dan]

solidworks

 

[bbson john]

solidworks

Damn! So you cannot work with liquid and gas by that!

 

[Ravioli]

rofl. Is that company using Auto CAD? The program is outdated now, Inventor would be a better choice.

 

[Raziaar]

You're going to get fired if you keep that up.

You remind me of George Costanza from Seinfeld.

 

[StardogChampion]

rofl. Is that company using Auto CAD? The program is outdated now, Inventor would be a better choice.

Probably not worth the retraining. It's like Quark vs Indesign. Damn Quark arghghhhghghhhhhh.

 

[Thread]

what was all that about modelling stainless steel plates? Do you mean you had to model those in AutoCad but instead you made a trebuchet?

 

[Dan]

First off, I already said that we use Solidworks. Some things need to be done in AutoCAD just because it's an industry standard. But AutoCAD is a pain in the ass to use. Sometimes the old 50 yr old engineers running companies don't like to learn new software.

Modeling stainless steel parts is the job I'm supposed to be doing. Basically there's this big machine that puts milk into bags. Right now all of the drawings are on paper or in the head of the guy that designed it. I've got to make a comprehensive model of each part and then put them together to make the whole machine. That or make siege engines.

 

[Parlez]

You're going to get fired if you keep that up.

You remind me of George Costanza from Seinfeld.

Now all he has to do is sleep under his desk huh :E

 

[Raziaar]

Now all he has to do is sleep under his desk huh :E

Haha, exactly. And be really really stingy.

 

[hungryduck]

Damn! So you cannot work with liquid and gas by that!

lol...clever.

 

[Adidajs]

I've got to make a comprehensive model of each part and then put them together to make the whole machine. That or make siege engines.

lol, my vote's on siege machines. That becomes infinite more handy in, let's say, a post-apocalyptic world in which all modern technology is lost and there's a middle ages-type reversion. or maybe you should just stick with modeling a steel bolt.

 

[Danimal]

What are you doing that with? ProDesktop?

You can't implement physics in ProDesktop, the program can barely tell what objects are solid.

 

[bbson john]

You can't implement physics in ProDesktop, the program can barely tell what objects are solid.

But I can make water effect in it. It is kind of fun to make object with water even though your computer may dead when you implement water as a material.

 

[Danimal]

You mean texture it as water?

 

[bbson john]

You mean texture it as water?

Ahhh... Ya

 

[Danimal]

Texture ain't physics, s0n.