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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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> Just watch a bit of this to see how Catia works with making basic parts:
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> http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb2A9OKCAUc
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> 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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