Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Sheep following sheep....

As the cad world turns,....
Sheep following sheep seems to be what mainstream is about about in the cad world?
I've seen it my whole career.
It's continuing to this day and seems to be typical user behavoir.
What is he/she using... oh... I should be using that....
Or,.. the manager buys into brand x and he/she has absoluting no clue how to use the program and is telling their user base what to use!?!!?
Sad.

Monday, October 6, 2008

F**king scum VAR's!

... in all fairness,.. it takes two and looks like some of you were
part of the reason these dickwads bent over,..
greed is a strange beast... and when times are tough,.. the scum
sucking sales/marketing/ceo weasels start too submit.
assholes!

Hearing/reading all the politics and economics lately.... the pond
scum we feed,.. creates more pond scum.

I can't believe these slimy bottom dwelling - bottomline marketing
tactics continue and people submit to it.... blindly, submissively,
passively,...

What they are doing is treating the user/client with NO RESPECT AT
ALL!

Those fees are NOT acceptable and this latest sales/marketing email
should be read as a slap in the face to ALL paying users!!

It's WRONG! It's UNETHICAL! It's UNACCEPTABLE!

Just say NO! Don't buy into this....otherwise, if you buy into
it,... their pathetic mafia tactics will been seen as acceptable and WE ALL
LOSE!!

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tired of people making blatant and false statements about Pro/e.

Over the years I'm REALLY SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE MAKING BLATANT and FALSE STATEMENTS about Pro/e or why Pro/e users use SW or why they went away from using Pro/e.
Anyway, as a long-time Pro/e user and long-time SW user, over the years, most statements against Pro/e or posted on SolidWorks or AutoDesk forums are TOTALLY INCORRECT!

Pro/e stability, reliability, performance, consistency... is MUCH BETTER than SolidWorks!
Pro/e files were/are (but have increased) SMALLER, than SolidWorks.
Pro/e software works BETTER then SolidWorks on LESS expensive hardware, PERIOD!!!!!

And, to be clear,.. I DID NOT FLOCK TO SW because of the above... as a independent contractor, I saw NEW clients considering and moving away from AutoCAD (as I had with my Acad/MDT license) and they did NOT want to invest into Pro/e because of the cost (at that time, ~2-5X more expensive), learning curve and the ASSHOLE PTC sales people!
IMHO (as a consultant for 17 yrs, and ~20 years using 3D), Pro/e users and companies who did not know how to properly use Pro/e, went to SW.
Or, they NEVER needed the power of Pro/e and SW fits their needs much better!

Sadly, (the backdraft or domino effect?) I see many clients getting themselves into the same shitty position using SolidWorks as they did with Acad/MDT years ago.

SolidWorks is a mainstream modeler... it's average... that is, it's basically a chevy or ford .. for all.
Unfortunately, SolidWorks is basically BETAWARE,.. it's riddled with bugs, inconsistency, poor performance, lack of originality, lack of direction, half baked features and functions... and they have consistently proven this year after year after year,.....

Am, I annoyed... yes... yes I am! SolidWorks has made a hell of a lot of money off it's users and gained free support over the users,.. and all they have proved is that they are no different than AutoDesk or any other big company putting out HALF BAKED BETA WAREl!

.. (ok, well,... I feel much better now!) 8^)