Mechanical Engineers are used to being left on read

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Squorlple@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

Job applications too

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Pro/E doesn't leave you waiting. Instead, it abruptly exits with no warning.

(No, I'm not calling it Creo. I'm old and stuck in my ways.)

AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

CATIA let's you pull the trigger. When it shits the bed, you get a little window with "Click OK to terminate" and you can't do anything but click OK.

Didn't save for the last hour? Too bad. Better luck next time.

Vathsade@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Do people still use catia? What industry?

Addition@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

I had to use it when I worked at an auto supplier. I even helped write training materials for the new Catia V6 version, which was somehow significantly worse than V5.

Sasquatch@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

I know its still in use by (one of?) the largest plastic bottle companies

AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Boeing uses CATIA for CAD and ENOVIA for their CAD parts data repository.

kersploosh@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

I thought it was big in automotive and aerospace.

vatlark@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They are outside on the venn diagram?

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y

Meme wasn’t designed in CAD

Firoaren@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y

Would you like to report the error? Are you sure? Can you bear the weight of abandoning this? Quitter?

tinylightshow@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y

Too true. Solidworks? Sometimes!

peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y

Girl you liked liked you enough to give you contact information and read it.

Think you're doing all right.

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

FreeCAD will at least respond to you. It might want you to interpret its mystical signals to decipher what it wants, but it will not ice you out.

fubarx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

OTOH, Solidworks will report you to the authorities with a detailed description of every room in your house and the contents of your refrigerator.

kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

I found out the hard way that they're very aggressive when it comes to unlicensed use. If your machine has a wireless card they'll even use that to triangulate your location.

Limonene@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Who even enables read receipts?

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y

It's often the default