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Re: Autodesk to acquire PTC
When PTC bought Onshape, it took it from startup funding to huge corporation funding and resources. Looking back, it seems it was a win-win for both OS and PTC.
Autodesk and PTC are about the same size company, however. They are the same order of magnitude. PTC is 23BB, Autodesk is 60BB. Roughly 3 times as big, not the 10x or greater when companies are in different ballgames. Except for Siemens, the other 3 CAD companies are roughly the same range of market cap. Siemens of course has many more businesses than the other 3.
My point is it seems a stretch for Autodesk to overtake/buy a company that is 1/3rd its size.
Re: "Simple" Beginner Loft Question -- Why is it twisted?
Since I can't delete my own posts… I'll answer my own question here:
Edit the Sketch that defines the box. Add a Point to the center of the two long sides. Edit the Sketch that defines the top of cylinder and add two Points at opposite sides of the circle. Create a Loft and select the bottom of the box and the top of the cylinder. Click the Connections box. Select one of the Points on the bottom of the box and then select the Point "underneath" it on the circumference of the top of the cylinder. Click the arrow next to "Selections" to collapse the selections. Now add the other two Points. These will go into their own section. In the image below, I've added the first two points and collapsed the selection. Then I added the second two Points into their own selection:
Finally, I click the check mark and the Loft is created, without any twists!
In my real document, I created 8 points for the box - one in the middle of each side and at the corner of the box. I created corresponding Points equally spaced around the circumference of the top of the cylinder. I selected each Point, individually, from the box and the cylinder, then collapsed the Selection before selecting the next two matching Points. The result was a perfectly formed Loft from the box to the cylinder:
Hope that helps if anyone else is having the same issues.
Re: Hose Routing Feature
Sorry, something seems to have happened. Link to feature.
Re: Problem importing dxf file
Wow! The Rhino export (3DM) worked perfectly! I am immensely grateful for your help!
Re: API: Determining if there was a regeneration failure
Thanks, that does indeed work! If I could make a request, it'd be nice if there was a cheaper (less severely rate-limited and quicker) endpoint to just get the featureStatus along with the feature names associated with the node ids.
Re: Force a workspace to update Library Version?
It only takes a day (if you hit the wrong part of the 3 week cycle) for one branch to become out of sync. Then it makes merging much more complicated. And as mentioned in another thread, with workspace protection on it’s even worse. This is quickly becoming a top issue for my company.
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