Posted on 09/19/2008 9:11:12 AM PDT by awildanimal
GEORGE BUSH IS EVIL!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE EVIL!!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE STEALING FOOD AND MONEY FROM BABIES AND CHILDREN AND GIVING THEN TO RICH RACIST NAZIS IN GOVNERMENT!! THEY ARE STARTING HOLOCAUSTS AGAINST MINORITES WOMEN AND THE POOR!! THEY HATE THE POOR AND TAKE FROM THEM AND GIVE IT TO THE RICH!!! CONSERVATIVES ARE NAZIS!! MY SISTER HAS A HIGH IQ!~!! CONSERVAITIVES ARE BOMBING CHILDREN IN IRAK AND IRAN!! THEY ARE KILLING BABIES BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT WHITE AND RICH LIKE THE CONSERVATIVES ARE!!! THEY ARE ALL RACIST AND EVIL!!
You done good, Darks!
(Your fang wasn’t damaged, was it? It made your smile so darksome!)
Fangs undamaged.
It was the molars that got the workout.
Ah! Good!
I’m leaving for a while, but I’ll be back. Y’all be good, now!
Yeah. The veterinarian down the street.
His business card reads, "Either way, you get the dog back."
Get your hands on a bottle of agave nectar to try as a honey substitute. Lower glycemic index. Better for your pancreas. Tastes great.
Beware the dentist!
I ran for the first time since July. Ow.
I’m just here for the pics
My daughter is trying to read “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” in Spanish. This is funny.
“”I ran for the first time since July. Ow.””
You must live in a good neighborhood.
I do. I only saw one Obama sign.
Yllaer?
Well, I prefer low-shock activities like cycling or swimming, but completely empathize with your present muscular distress. A good hearty massage should help work the lactic acid out of the tissues and more rapidly restore pain-free motion to your limbs.
It was only 3 miles, not that a massage would be bad :-). But I’ll settle for wine and pretzels.
The only ones I know of who support killing minority babies are the Democrats.
MIL been in the hospital a couple of days, but they think they know what's wrong and it will be fine. Cellphone is broken; charging up the old one just in case, but found somebody local who says they can fix the screen. And on and on, including a corporate announcement that might result in even more travel to Europe (the downside of some very good and long-hoped-for news!)...
Well, let me simply say it is SSSOOO user-configurable that the user for which I am working has managed to bastardize it beyond all sanity; granting, of course, that it came in some actually useful form from the OEM, which is, I think, warranted by the good performance of the design software they sell.
Once upon a time, an Engineer could make a drawing, get it Checked, Approved, and formally “Released” for production in a day.
With the advent of enterprise Product Lifecycle Management software, times have changed. Before the formal Release process can be initiated, a number of prerequisites need to be met, and a random number of heavenly objects need to be aligned.
The 3D model has to have the right objects on the right layers, and have the right material assigned so that correct mass/density/COG (center of gravity) data can be derived.
Then we put that 3D model into the context of a larger assembly where it has to have the right Reference Set, be assigned the right Item Number, and be properly designated as a Reference Only part, or not. Also, for OEM items that need a Reference Object in the Assembly, but need actual OEM data to appear in the Part List, there must be said OEM item added to the Assembly, but not appearing as visible geometry.
So, the Assembly data has to be propagated to the Bill Of Material (BOM) in the database, where said OEM Item(s) can be added, along with appropriate flags indicating that they do not appear in the model.
Done correctly, an OEM Item like self-adhesive foam tape actually needs TWO Items in the model dataset for accurate representation in both the model and drawing contexts. The one Item will be a design Item that appears as a Reference Object in the model that has 3D geometry but doesn't show up in the Part List on the drawing, and the other Item will be an OEM Item that has no geometric representation in the model, but appears as an appropriate line-item in the Part List.
All of the foregoing requires careful synchronization of these items, and studious attention to who has ownership of which items, and a few other underlying factors any of which can booger up the whole works by being other than just so.
Now then. The drawing of the 3D model must conform to the corporate standards, and this really hasn't changed from the days of pencil and paper. What HAS changed is that some things that are controlled, and appear on the drawing, are not drawing-level text entries directly editable at the drawing level, but entries — like the weight of the assembly — derived from data controlled at one or more previous steps.
If, for example, the drawing check process in 1989 revealed an incorrect part weight, it as a simple matter to correct the figure. Now, in 2008, that process requires finding out which assembly element is reporting an absent or incorrect weight, editing that 3D model (which might involve getting someone else to “let go of it” [check it in] so you can work on it), assigning the correct material, updating the object weight analysis data, saving the work, then reloading the drawing so that the saved data is correctly propagated to the drawing. This is where the alignment of the heavenly bodies enters into the picture.
At this point, the engineer must ensure that the item numbering and quantities appearing in the Part List on the drawing are as required, and accurately reflect the numbering determined in the assembly model, and in the BOM database. If not, another investigative/corrective process ensues to rectify the errant information, which is — again — NOT editable directly at the drawing level, but derived from data that is part of the assembly model, and the respective design Item and OEM item models. Correction involves variant processes — none of them very brief — depending upon what is being incorrectly displayed.
Arriving, finally, at the place where the models and the drawing are all complete, and in harmony, the formal Release process can begin to be initiated.
The drawing, along with the model and all of the underlying data for all of the items in the assembly, gets submitted into a process that puts the information into a state of readiness where it can be added as a line item slated for assignment of a formal revision on an Engineering Change Order (ECO).
The Engineer now gets the pleasure of authoring said ECO, stating reasons why this ECO must exist, what problem drives it into being, what solution it will implement, and what items are being formally released as part of the implementation of said solution. As well, it must include any items being rendered obsolete. For an ECO releasing just one part (an unusual ECO to be sure), this might take a half-hour, whereupon the author may submit the ECO into the Approval process.
At this point, several nether demons from the pits of Hell ravage the ECO, and the model, and the drawing, and the underlying data in attempts to discover any weakness, however insignificant, upon which they may raise an “Issue” blocking the progress of the ECO. Upon the appearance of any such “Issue”, the Engineer must jump through the required hoops to satisfy the owner of the Issue enough to allow the Issue to be Closed. Note, here, that an Issue can be raised that pertains to some bit of data that the ECO author does not control, and that this will necessitate that our engineer produce a long enough trail of email and unanswered phone messages to cajole invisible beings into giving the engineer control of said data so that the engineer can address the Issue and satisfy the Issue owner sufficiently to get the Issue Closed. This dans macabre goes on until all Approvers agree that they can't find anything wrong anymore, despite their most infernal efforts, and the ECO goes, still smoldering, to the Change Control Board for Scheduling, where it is determined WHEN to allow the change described in the ECO to actually be Implemented. After surviving all of that, the ECO itself is formally Closed, and the designed part is formally Released with that Great Prize of all Great Prizes: a Revision Number.
Now, the engineer has the pleasure of repeating this whole process for every part in the entire BOM for the current project, until all formerly unreleased items have a Revision Number.
For this, the engineer will not be compensated more than five figures, and may well wonder why they didn't pursue a trade — like cabinet-making — where forcefully pounding on things is a PRODUCTIVE part of the workload.
Already got me.
I have three crowns in.
Needed ‘em too...
Gotta love those all controllling cacodemons who decide the fates of project progress.
Their official pictures make great .22 cal targets I hear.
My MIL fell the other day and popped open the skin on her right hand.
Ouchies, but she’s healing up some.
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