scott wrote:
>> I'm still puzzled by Benny boasting about having a German girlfriend 
>> even though he didn't speak German yet... How the hell does *that* 
>> work?? o_O
> 
> In Germany everyone learns English at school.

Hmm. I guess Benny left that part out. ;-)

>> Well, it *did* seem to have some pretty extensive texturing 
>> facilities... I spent most of the time playing with that. However, as 
>> far as shapes go, it seemed to only handle polygon meshes.
> 
> Ummm yeh, it's a mesh based modeller, what do you expect?

OK. So... how do you build anything nontrivial with it? Just adding 
endless predefined meshes together doesn't seem very flexible.

>> Our library tends to be very sparse on computer books.
> 
> Go to a bigger one then.

Oh, yeah, *sure*. Because, I mean, there are libraries *everywhere*, 
right? :-P

>> (Every day I see manufactured objects of such complexity that it seem 
>> completely clear that whoever designed them must be using something a 
>> tad more sophisticated than any of the software I've seen so far.)
> 
> Just watch a bit of this to see how Catia works with making basic parts:
> 
> http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb2A9OKCAUc
> 
> They design whole planes and cars with this software so it has to be 
> quite sophisticated.

I'll have to wait until I get home, but... this should be interesting.

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