Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by MadManxCadMan

  1. MadManxCadMan

    printer driver

    tsauer, Go look on hp.com at http://productfinder.support.hp.com/tps/ProductFinder?h_lang=en&h_tool=software&h_query=hp+450c (all on one line) Regards, MMCM
  2. MadManxCadMan

    SolidWorks file conversion frpm 2003 to 2001+

    An observation: I have noticed that if you set the preview window on file open in SW2001+, you can see the file contents of a SW2003 file, but when selecting the file to open with "OK" it fails, showing "Future version" - so is this just a marketing ploy to push upgrades?.
  3. MadManxCadMan

    Problem with dot and comma

    Jeanpaul, Check your international settings - sounds to me like SW is waiting for a decimal point "." not a comma "," - if your national configuation is not set up to suit your language preferences, SW will look for the "." and treat the "," as text...
  4. MadManxCadMan

    Standard formatting

    Auminer, In the UK, BS8888:2002 "Technical Product Documentation(TPD) - Specification For defining, specifying and graphically representing products" is now the definitive standard for all Technical Documentation. However, it's not perfect and appears to overlook the written...
  5. MadManxCadMan

    Solidworks 2K3 Shutdown

    Hi Scondon, System crashes due to network cards: There is a 'feature' of XP/2000 which many users are not happy with when they become aware of it - both operating systems disable the on-card CPU's for network cards by default, so the main CPU of your machine has to handle the network traffic as...
  6. MadManxCadMan

    Pro E Vs Solid Works - The ol' debate

    To reply to Hayden, Cosmos Express - it has one major limitation - don't expect to model contacts within a part - eg a flexible bracket bending and coming into contact with itself - Cosmos Pro handles this by placing the part into an assembly on its own - and guess what - Cosmos Express only...
  7. MadManxCadMan

    3D Labs Wildcat VP vs. NVidia Quadro/GeForce

    Take a look at the following review dated Nov 12 2002: It compares the Quadro4 900,750,550XGL, with FireGL8800, VP760, VP870... using Solidworks 2001+ as the benchmark... http://www.cadserver.co.uk/common/viewer/archive/2002/Nov/12/feature10.phtm

Part and Inventory Search