Re: SWX Documentation-Matt Lombard Nails It

graphic gimmick
I'm not so sure it is gimmick.
Firstly graphics and graphic cards capabilities if an area of ongoing
development just like perpendicular recording to disks or parallel
processing ( anyone seen the review of the Intel V8?).
The realview stuff now in SW is just keeping up with the times...no
need to be worried about that..some day we will have real time
raytraced models on the screen...and renderers as we know them will
disappear.
If you saw my recent post with a video of accessing a large data set
of images you might realise that in the future how you interface with
assemblies and drawings might change quite a bit.
Is CAD a static tool or an evolving one? ...sliderules anyone? will
'drawings' still be important in the future?

In the matter of the appearance its a matter of product distinction I
think.
I complained as far back as SW2004 eDrawings that the icon style was
the wrong way to go but no one was listening then...so now we have
something that people dont particularly like and has the wrong
emphasis.
Well ok they made a wrong call and committed a lot of resource to it
and now we have it even if we didnt want it
Is there a better alternative to the command manager if they wanted to
change for productivity? dunno..maybe not maybe there is but it can
only come if other bits are in place first.

Reliability is really just a matter of management willing to commit
resource to it - not much sign of change in that area..all sorts of
beliefs and cultural factors in there...maybe an earthquake in
awareness could happen some day..hers hoping :o)


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