Amazing 3D animation technique using iPad

This video shows a pretty amazing 3D animation technique developed through dragging and iPad though space while it plays back a seemingly incoherent series of image.

Through stop motion photography the true nature of the images are revealed.

Go big or go home

Dealmaker Peter Pocklington used to say that it takes just as mutch time, effort and energy to build a million dollar deal as it does to build one for several thousand dollars. The same could be said about the time spent making information based content websites to attract new prospects to your business.

Regardless of whether you are trying to attract prospects to buy screen doors or complete subdivision developments you still have to devote the same amount of time, effort and energy in developing your all important online reputation.

A few simple paragraphs about how wonderful your company and product is on your home page just is not going to do the job. You need to research the customer and find out what they are searching for, and create tens if not hundreds of pages trying to address the needs of those visitors searches.

Research is never one hundred percent accurate, no matter how powerful the metrics and software behind it. It will be necessary to over-deliver on content to make sure that a good number of your pages meet the needs of the visitors and subsequently get into the top ten search results at Google and other search engines.

This illustrates the time, effort and energy part of creating the website. Those pages will consistently deliver targeted prospects for your business as the prospects come to regard you as a trusted expert source of information. It's just that you have to put a lot of work into gaining that expert recognition.

Content based information websites are a great fit for industrial companies. The recognition you get from the internet can cut though old networks developed by companies who have wined and dined and schmoozed customers at yearly conventions. It can give the new players a fighting chance.

Once you establish your online reputation, prospects will call you directly and most times they will be already sold before you pick up the phone because they believe they know who you are. All because you put all that initial time, effort and energy to develop that all important online reputation.

Engineering Scales - How to use them in your drawings

Engineering Scales is a short power point presentation with sound that I have put together to help drafters put together scale drawings.

Sometimes when drawings are created, objects are plotted onto paper at whatever scale they may fit, but this does not alsways help the people who have to read the drawings.

Drawing at accepted scales helps in the checking process as well as helping contractors and tradespeople interpret the drawings

Will free drafting software cause problems for AutoCAD ?

For years AutoCAD has been the most popular 2D drafting software. AutoCAD's one program for everybody approach and backward version compatibility has always been appreciated by mechanical, civil, structural and architectural drafters and designers alike.

To compete with AutoCAD, other CAD software firms use the same file format that Autodesk created and even go as far as copying commands word for word in their software. I cant think of too many industries where the competition virtually duplicates the look and feel of an existing piece of software.

Companies such as Dassault Systemes are now giving away 2D drafting software for free. Their new DraftSight 2D CAD software product is a fully functional CAD drafting program. Google's Sketchup continues to enjoy wide acceptance by the architectural world and its 3D “push-pull” features are even being copied by AutoCAD in its latest 2011 release.

The key here will be whether Google and Dassault can maintain consistent releases of their free products and provide the support to keep their user base happy. To the extent they do, they will gain the trust and of the CAD community. Without that support, CAD users will probably stay with what they know best.

New engineering drawing sizes video

I have been experimenting with making Flash videos and made a new one titled
Drawing Sizes based on a power point presentation. I hope to add more videos in this way to create a series of tutorials for some of the more common tasks in setting up drawings.

Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing Course results

My apologies to the students for not posting this information sooner. Here are the results of the recent GD&T course at Metro College.

Subject: GD&T
Start Date: 11/10/2010
#	Student Number	Test		Exam		Final Score
		1	30%	1	50%
1	DSP- 4250-0710-F196	73	22	77	54	76
2	DHR-4250-0810-F219	96	29	95	67	95
3	DHR-4250-0810-F221	88	26	96	67	94
4	DHR-4250-0810-F220	75	23	89	62	85
5	DHR-4250-0810-F228	61	18	93	65	83
6	DHR-3800-0710-F204	57	17	89	62	79
7	DHR-3800-0710-F213	92	28	84	59	86
8	DHR-3800-0810-F247	39	12	91	64	75
9	DHR-4250-0810-F251	78	23	98	69	92
10	DHR-4250-0910-F263	69	21	91	64	84
11	DHR-4250-0910-F267	88	26	86	60	87
12	DSP-4200-0910-F282	100	30	98	69	99
13	DHR-4250-0910-F287	88	26	88	62	88
14	DHR-4250-0910-F291	71	21	91	64	85
15	DHR-4250-0910-F290	94	28	98	69	97
16	DHR-3800-1010-F298	78	23	89	62	86
17	DHR-4250-0810-F233	100	30	95	67	97
18	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	0	0	0	0	0	0