Ctopher's Blog

Dual-monitors, window hidden

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:56:00 +0000

Switching from dual monitors to a single monitor then losing windows?

Select ALT-SPACEBAR on your keyboard, then 'M' (for Move), then use the keyboard arrow keys to move the window back into view.

I have used this trick for a few years and it works great!

Before I switch from dual to single monitors, I drag all of my windows to my primary monitor before closing them. This will save the positions for the next time they are open.

Obama

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:22:00 +0000

First "black" president?!

Give me a break!
"We are in a recession!" People are losing jobs, their homes, their savings, and their trust in the U.S. government...and people are concerned about the "first black president"??

Then the media's headlines are concentrating on Obama being the first "black" president??

Who cares??!!

What is he going to do for us to make this a better place to live?
I say this for any president.

I would get reprimanded, yelled at, possibly fired, or get into a fight if I were to call an "African American" black!

I once had a "black" woman ask me where I was from. I said Los Angeles. She asked me what country my last name is from. I said I am "German American".
She said I can't say that because I'm not from Germany.
She said she's "African American" because her ancestors were from Africa.
Damn!! I told her I'm more German than she is African!!
She called me a racist! A racist?? A racist calls me a racist??!!

When I applied for the LAPD, I was told I can't go forward because they weren't hiring "white males"!! Well...F*** you!!

People with this arrogance don't belong here. Get a life, move on.

I have just as many rights as anyone else in this country, I don't care what damn color anyone is.
Citizens of the U.S. need to get their thumbs out of their mouths, grow up, and act like human beings!

We have lost our technologies to other countries, all do to corporate greed, government bureaucracy, and plain 'ol stupidity.

If change doesn't happen soon, there will be no turning back.

Pink Floyd's Richard Wright

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:14:00 +0000

One of my favorite bands of all time has lost an original, Richard Wright (keyboards)

Sad and he will be missed.

SolidWorks models

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:30:00 +0000

I have been asked a lot about where to find models/parts to download.
Here are some links to help some of you find them.
I hope this helps! ;)

http://www.3dmodelsharing.com/free.php

http://beta.3dcontentcentral.com/Browse.aspx

http://www.katorlegaz.com/3d_models/index.php

http://www.3dvia.com/search/models.php?search%5Bresults_per_page%5D=100&search%5Bsort_order%5D=Rank&search%5Bquery%5D=SolidWorks&search%5Bfields%5D=software

http://www.3dcadtips.com/login.php

http://www.cben.net/

http://www.worthingtonmillwork.com/cad_moldings.html

http://www.sheetmetaldesign.com/Cad-SolidWorks/index.htm

http://www.us.kohler.com/tech/cadsymbol/symbols.jsp?module=All&type=3D

http://www-users.aston.ac.uk/~smithdi/_private/Models.htm

Update. Thank you to Casa De Toad.
http://www.tracepartsonline.net/(S(ryy4o5uopg0djc45gu0dkj55))/ws/mcadcentral/index.aspx

"Death Race" boycott

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:21:00 +0000

I was at the Jimmy Kimmel show Friday, Aug 29 with my daughter. It was a fun show. But, when Tyrese Gibson announced that everyone at the show could go across the street and see "Death Race" for free...ON HIM, it was bogus. We even recieved wrist bands from the Jimmy Kimmel staff to see the movie!
I talked to the theater manager who walked across the street to the Jimmy Kimmel show and talked to a manager there. The manager said it was all a joke! It was a huge let down for my daughter and myself.I passed the word and I will boycott all of Tyrese's films from now on! I hope other's will follow.

SolidWorks "Ctopher's Material Database"

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:46:00 +0000

For access to download my SolidWorks "Ctopher's Material Database", please select one of the links below:

Ctopher's Home: http://home.roadrunner.com/~zoerme/ctopherCADtips.html

SolidWorks Legion: http://www.fcsuper.com/swblog/?s=materials&pwp=1

AUGI CAD Camp

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:49:00 +0000

I visited my first AUGI CAD Camp on Wednesday, May 21 2008.
I don't want to go into too much detail, so I will be brief.
Although I am an avid SolidWorks user, at my job I also do Autodesk Enterprise Support for our company.
Autodesk has a lot of products and a few have improved over the past few years.
But, there is a lot more improvement needed. They have WAYYY too many products and much of them overlap. AutoCAD 2009 now has features imported from Inventor.

There was a lot of 3D talk. AutoCAD is now starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and moving to 3D. The two products I heard the most were Rivet and MEP.

Satellite TV installed

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:37:00 +0000

I made the move from cable TV (Time Warner) to satellite TV (DirecTV).
Much improvement!
The tech took approximately 10 hours to install the dish and run cables for 4 rooms and did a very god job.
The cable was HD ... about 10 HD channels, now the satellite is HD ... about 100+ channels; huge improvement in quality also!
I'm keeping the cable high speed internet, but will not go back to cable TV.
I get more channels and options than cable, and is a little cheaper.

I did have him leave all cable TV cables in place for future use.

Scams

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:30:00 +0000

I ordered satellite TV and it is getting installed on Saturday.
Yesterday I received a call from a guy from India, very poor English, asking me to give him all of my information again because the computer lost it.
It seems very fishy to me, so I hung up.
I called the satellite dish company, they said everything is good and they did not call.

For anyone looking to have anything installed, do not give out your information on the telephone to anyone if they call you. Call them back and check, it is probably a scam!

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:50:00 +0000

To all spam and solicitors:

If I don't know who you are, I will not answer the telephone or open your email.

For paper mail, it will be returned.

SolidWorks "How To Videos" tip

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:37:00 +0000

For those of you that have not found them yet or not aware they exist, there are numerous "How To" videos in YouTube for different subjects, including SolidWorks. You can do a video search in Google and it will also direct you to the same YouTube page.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=solidworks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0mGgQo1UeY&mode=related&search

My first blog

ctopher05@yahoo.com (ctopher's blog) — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:55:00 +0000

Hello everyone. This is my first blog. Please be patient with me, the blog is still under construction.