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Wut? No Pro/E (now Creo Parametric) vs. SolidWorks debate?! Glad they eventually branched off into 2 separate use cases debate solved.

Those little PC's will never have the horsepower to do even 2D drawing was the cry at one time. Usually said from a HP-UX 9000 RISC workstation. Up until ~10 years ago I still had a HP 20" CRT drafting monitor, it weighed close to 100 pounds.

r2m said:
Ha-ha!
Brought back memories when I learned AutoCAD in the early/mid 1980's, when it was installed on x286 PC's with 5" "floppy's". I thought it was the cat's meow after using a mainframe CAD program called Intergraph, when I started in 1980. Back then, each (dummy) CAD station cost about $60,000 per station but they still had to be connected to the mainframe to do anything, where all your work and the actual program was on. And when it went down and the people down in the basement had to reboot the mainframe, everyone was shut down and just sitting around till it booted back up. It was my first exposure to computer terms like "booted", etc.
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Most likely a midrange system, you don't reboot a mainframe. If you do then someone at IBM has to kill a kitten as a sacrifice, just saying. You kill the process ID and memory space of the offending application and\or user. Same for Unix based systems and most midrange.

You may have heard someone say (actually it is several people) we are bootstrapping the system. On mainframes you boot the microprocessors, then IML the subsystems, then finally IPL the OS. Most just say they are doing an IPL. And there goes another kitten circling the drain...
 
llm said:
I used to work as a chemical engineer in the oil industry- I can't even begin to imagine what a pain it would be to design and do all the calculations, only to find out you need to make a change.
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It's demoralizing, but just fine if you are getting paid to make the updates :). FYI I'm an engineer but work in consulting. A project you design that never gets built comes with all of the profit while carrying none of the risk ;).
 
Cold Iron said:
Wut? No Pro/E (now Creo Parametric) vs. SolidWorks debate?! Glad they eventually branched off into 2 separate use cases debate solved.

Those little PC's will never have the horsepower to do even 2D drawing was the cry at one time. Usually said from a HP-UX 9000 RISC workstation. Up until ~10 years ago I still had a HP 20" CRT drafting monitor, it weighed close to 100 pounds.



Most likely a midrange system, you don't reboot a mainframe. If you do then someone at IBM has to kill a kitten as a sacrifice, just saying. You kill the process ID and memory space of the offending application and\or user. Same for Unix based systems and most midrange.

You may have heard someone say (actually it is several people) we are bootstrapping the system. On mainframes you boot the microprocessors, then IML the subsystems, then finally IPL the OS. Most just say they are doing an IPL. And there goes another kitten circling the drain...
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You're probably right. I was just an end user sitting 3 floors above where all the 'magic' happens.

Regarding Creo vs. SolidWorks, in '95 I was in a small med device company (12 employees?) and after working on a design for a (medical device) luer/hub (the thing that sticks out form the back of your hand so they can connect I.V.'s), in AutoCAD, there were certain features that, for the life of me, couldn't get ACAD to do. At that point I told my boss (the V.P. of R&D) that I HAD to have a proper 3D modeling software program. He said, "Okay, find one." So I contacted about half a dozen different 3D solid modeling software companies do a dog and pony show for me to show off their company's software abilities. My primary criteria was the software HAD to model a helix, e.g. threads, and in my case, double lead medical device lure lock threads.
The only company's that even came close were PT Modeler (a light version of ProEngineer, now Creo) and SolidWorks. The result was that, yeah, PT Modeler was able to do threads, but... it was more expensive than SolidWorks, it required getting a new, much faster PC (we're talking 1995 PC's), no budget. It required having to spend more money on extra modules to do the threads AND the learning curve, as I was told, needed to be about 40 hours/week to even become proficient at it. Hence, I went with SolidWorks that ran on my existing PC, didn't need anything extra for threads and much more, was cheaper and after a 4 day class at their facility, I was able to finish my design in 2 days, which I was struggling for several weeks with ACAD to do the same thing! Also, since SolidWorks was new in our industry, I was one of the first to use it. As people in the company learned it, they'd eventually moved on to other med device companies, taking their skills with them. So I was actually the one to proliferate SolidWorks in the medical device industry down here in Orange County!
 
Rednexus said:
It's demoralizing, but just fine if you are getting paid to make the updates :). FYI I'm an engineer but work in consulting. A project you design that never gets built comes with all of the profit while carrying none of the risk ;).
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One of my designs that I have U.S. patent and international patent on, was shelved because they didn't see enough demand. :(
But, being an employee, I at least was paid for all my effort AND I have the patent to prove it, along with about another dozen other U.S. patents on med devices that did go on to be manufactured and sold!
 
Thats why I like being an Operations engineer. I am a lot better at improving existing designs then making a design from scratch. Most of my construction work was retro and almost every building is a prototype.

Prepped me we'll for shaking down HVAC Automation systems.

Any luck and I may have some patents soon.
 
The grill will be easy to mount. Its tie it in with the head lights will take a bit of careful cardboard mockup. I do have a plastic hobby panel for filling in the shaped space between the headlight and the grille.

I am leaning towards mounting a 84/85 satin black hilux/Pickup steel bumper under neath it. Then using the turn signals in the oem 4th gen steel bumper.

I really want to take the confusion to a whole 'nother level. As it is very few folks recognize my truck as a 460 and it was legitimately mistaken for a Prado on the trail upon multiple occasions last year.

I have used Hiluxforever for a very long time and time to make it mean more than words..
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Hiluxforever said:
The grill will be easy to mount. Its tie it in with the head lights will take a bit of careful cardboard mockup. I do have a plastic hobby panel for filling in the shaped space between the headlight and the grille.

I am leaning towards mounting a 84/85 satin black hilux/Pickup steel bumper under neath it. Then using the turn signals in the oem 4th gen steel bumper.

I really want to take the confusion to a whole 'nother level. As it is very few folks recognize my truck as a 460 and it was legitimately mistaken for a Prado on the trail upon multiple occasions last year.

I have used Hiluxforever for a very long time and time to make it mean more than words..
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More than words?

Are you sure that isn't too Extreme?

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Noice! Did they have any performance issues?
 
I bet the internal seals and oil are degraded from getting that hot. Time for an upgrade!
 
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llm said:
did 200 miles at death valley last weekend. inspection this weekend. melted the boots off 5100s lol

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Did you go out to the race track? The trails out to the race track are brutal washboards. I hate going out there, but it's cool once you're there!
 
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r2m said:
Did you go out to the race track? The trails out to the race track are brutal washboards. I hate going out there, but it's cool once you're there!
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yes. my route was 395 up to Cerro Gordo, down to lone pine- big pine-Eureka dunes-steel pass- saline valley-lippencott- racetrack-hunter mountain- saline valley to 190

the washboards on saline valley were brutal and likely what killed them. I was also loaded heavy with 13 gal water, diesel heater and 2 gal diesel, 200ah lfp battery, 55l fridge, recovery gear and tools, and of course the humans and their stuff. I did it solo so went as prepared as I could.
 
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Decently loud clunking from the right side of the GX. Sounds more like right rear to me but nothing seems visually loose or broken. Hear it mainly when the weight loads up on the right side, like going around a lefthand corner etc. Desperately want to climb under and see what's what, but we got 16" of snow Sunday into Monday and another 3" this morning. Driveway is an absolute mess.
 
Roody said:
Decently loud clunking from the right side of the GX. Sounds more like right rear to me but nothing seems visually loose or broken. Hear it mainly when the weight loads up on the right side, like going around a lefthand corner etc. Desperately want to climb under and see what's what, but we got 16" of snow Sunday into Monday and another 3" this morning. Driveway is an absolute mess.
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Could be the KDSS sway bar moving around.
 
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