Work Diary

Key points from trip to Canberra

1. I no longer have to price assemblies only parts - this make things easier as I no longer have to traverse an assembly tree.
2. The methodology of creating a blank became a lot more difficult when George decided that instead of trimming the blank to exact dimensions that we would use annotations and surface tolerances to work out how the blank is produced. Annotations are more tricky to use as there are many different types and they can be associated with different kinds of things -(edges corners etc). This however I believe should be doable (although I havnt done it yet)
3. George would like to develop a work efficiency monitor application.
   

I have spent most of my time lately investigating how to make the applications I write as addins rather than as external programs as I currently do. I had assumed addins would very easy, this turns out not to be the case. Not only is the procedure not as simple as I had assumed but the methods that solidworks use relies on me having the Visual studio product (which i dont).
Anyway - I been told by a couple of different sources that it is possible to do what I want without the VS product, so I will spend some more time on this subject.