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Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
September 28, 2016
Question

WooHoo! FINALLY found work....

  • September 28, 2016
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It's a 3-month-ish contract position, and may go longer (not sure HOW much longer) but it's great to be working again!  Learning creo 3, and it's WAY better than the garbage creo perametric pro 5.0 version I was on.  A lot of new changes to the GUI, this time actually for the better!  Also some real enhancements.

 

Been here since Mon 9/26, and so far love it.  Awesome people, awesome work culture/environment, seems like a great company and I've been trying to get in here for years, so, we'll see where this goes!

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    23-Emerald III
    StephenW23-Emerald III
    23-Emerald III
    September 28, 2016

    Welcome back

      Dale_Rosema
      23-Emerald III
      Dale_Rosema23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      September 28, 2016

      As Stephen mention - Welcome back and congrats!!

        Patriot_1776
        Patriot_177622-Sapphire IIAuthor
        22-Sapphire II
        September 29, 2016

        Thanks guys, it's been a particularly rough one.  Currently I had to move out of my apt., put what I had left of my worldly possessions into a storage shed, and sleep on an air mattress in a friends spare room with my clothes in big Tupperware bins.  I'm moving closer to work by renting month-to-month with a guy.  It's $275/mo more, but it's in a nicer area, WAY closer to work and the places I love, so that'll be cool.  I'll have my sportbike with me in the garage, so that's good too.  It's been a rough 9 months, I tell ya!  But, the good thing, is I had enough saved to pay almost all my bills the whole time, so my credit isn't shot, so, that's a plus!

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          John.Pryal1-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          September 29, 2016

          Hi, yeah, definitely nice to have you back. It sounds like you have been to hell & back, hopefully all that hell is behind you now, good luck in your new role. Lets see if you still love Creo 3 in a few weeks!!! Have you tried to edit a note on a drawing yet? Creo 3 at it's best!!!

           

          Regards

           

          John

           

          edit. I was censored!! I did not realize the opposite of heaven (sounds like well) was deemed a swear word.

            Patriot_1776
            Patriot_177622-Sapphire IIAuthor
            22-Sapphire II
            September 29, 2016

            Well, I would agree Steven and would PREFER the old pull-downs, the ribbon is a total waste of space, but, since the new kiddies on the block prefer to be spoon-fed with fancy graphics, we're stuck with it.  I will say it's a TON better than the version I was on (worst version, EVAR!), but, I'll just have to deal with it.  On that note, I spent the last day or so completely re-doing my mapkeys so I don't even have to deal with it! 

            Now, if I could just figure out the interface of the swept blend so I can do a Variable Section Sweep.  It's not working unless I put 2 sections (1 too many) in there, but then the result is simply a swept blend between the 2 sections, not a VSS.  I can't get the section to be driven by the second trajectory!  It's kind of maddening.  But, there are some other actually worthwhile enhancements.  What we need now is a "solid body" cut, like SW has...... 

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            TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
            17-Peridot
            September 29, 2016

            Could be worse... you could be doing SW!

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              James621-Visitor
              1-Visitor
              September 29, 2016

              Grats, on finding a Creo job, hopefully without Windchill.

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                TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
                17-Peridot
                September 29, 2016

                Excellent news.

                 

                Glad to see you are enjoying Creo.

                 

                Looking forward to your ...critique

                  Patriot_1776
                  Patriot_177622-Sapphire IIAuthor
                  22-Sapphire II
                  September 30, 2016

                  Hah!  Some things I like, and make sense, one had me seriously irate....until I found it.  I got thrown into the deep end had to do some complicated surfacing...and I simply could NOT select anything but features, no surfaces.  Well, it turns out under the:  File, Options, Selection pop-up, there wasn't ANYTHING in the "My filter" side, so, features was all I got.  I was trying to copy surfaces to use to trim other surfaces, and wasn't getting squat.  FINALLY found this menu.  I use query select all the time anyways, so I want the ability to grab anything.  If I want to manually filter my selections, I'll set that up, but to come out of the box allowing you to select nothing but features is plain retarded.  And there was no "tutorial" about this.  So, being a "new to creo 3 user", trying to find where they re-arranged things really pi$$ed me off.

                  On the plus side I TOTALLY re-did all my mapkeys, and added new ones for the useful new features, so that helps.  All in all, considering it's a totally new interface for me, I think I'm doing well considering I've only had a couple days on it, with zero training and having been off the system totally for 9 months.

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                  dgschaefer21-Topaz II
                  21-Topaz II
                  September 30, 2016

                  I do't have anything in the "My filter' area either and I have no trouble selecting things.  I wonder if the new "Smart" filter (new in Creo, I think) is tripping you up.  You can change it in the lower right corner of the screen:

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                  The smart filter will only highlight features at first.  Once you select a feature and move your mouse it'll highlight entities of that feature (edges, surfaces, etc.)  Or you can take it of of smart and put it on something else.

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                  rubenvillarreal14-Alexandrite
                  14-Alexandrite
                  October 1, 2016

                  CONGRATULATIONS! It is nice to hear this kind of news!

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                    GrahameWard1-Visitor
                    1-Visitor
                    October 7, 2016

                    Hey I'm so glad you finally got some work. That's a long time to be out! I hope the work goes longer than 3 months. Is it in the same area? PM me if you want. I am still here!

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