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DCG Projects '10

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    #92
    keeffo2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭keeffo2008


    i have all my ps3 controller drawn and assembled bhut i put all the measurements in mm instead of cm so my contoller is nly like 5mm in size so my solidworks is ALLL wrong so does any1 no how to change all my already put in measurements to cm instead of mm PLZ HELP


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    #93
    Delta Kilo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭Delta Kilo


    The dimensions don't really matter so long as everything is in proportion you will be grand.

    You can overide the dimensions when you use smart dimension. You only have to put in a few dimensions anyway. Alternatively, you could put a note in your title block saying that all dimensions are centimetres.

    Either way it is only something minor, don't get hung up on it.


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    #94
    Eire-Dearg
    Registered Users Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    How do you go about getting SolidWorks at home lads? Do I have to buy it online somewhere?


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    #95
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    Eire-Dearg wrote: »
    How do you go about getting SolidWorks at home lads? Do I have to buy it online somewhere?

    Our teacher gave us all a copy.


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    #96
    jayzbrady
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭jayzbrady


    I think that it says in the brief somewhere that all submitted work must be completed in school, under your teacher's supervision.
    Just a heads up. I know that you can get much needed practice in at home, and do the work in school.


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    #97
    MaggieNF
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    jayzbrady wrote: »
    I think that it says in the brief somewhere that all submitted work must be completed in school, under your teacher's supervision.
    Just a heads up. I know that you can get much needed practice in at home, and do the work in school.

    i gotta agree, you do any of your project work at home and you pretty much fail

    you can buy it though and practise at home or just practise after school?


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    #98
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    MaggieNF wrote: »
    i gotta agree, you do any of your project work at home and you pretty much fail

    I have to disagree with you here. In last years DCG class in my school, most of them done their modelling at home. Out of that class they had the 1st and 4th highest score in the projects in Ireland.

    It is quite easy to change the name of the computer it was done on to correspond with your school computers, having said this I was told the examiners seldom bother checking things like this.


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    #99
    Eire-Dearg
    Registered Users Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    What, you can't do it at home?


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    #100
    jayzbrady
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭jayzbrady


    Reillyman wrote: »
    I have to disagree with you here. In last years DCG class in my school, most of them done their modelling at home.

    Yes, they might have.
    The point of doing it in school is that it's fairer than being able to do it at home.


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    #101
    MaggieNF
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    the time you spend doing it at home is the same as the time you would spend doing it in school, why not just do it in school to be safer?

    and last year was the first year they werent going to fail everyone this yeah they could check things more closely


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    #102
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    jayzbrady wrote: »
    Yes, they might have.
    The point of doing it in school is that it's fairer than being able to do it at home.

    How is it fairer exactly?
    the time you spend doing it at home is the same as the time you would spend doing it in school, why not just do it in school to be safer?

    So you can spend the time in school revising for the exam...


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    #103
    MaggieNF
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    Reillyman wrote: »
    How is it fairer exactly?


    it is fairer because evryone is doing it in the same place and with the same amount of time? why are people so determined to do it at home?hmmmm


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    #104
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    MaggieNF wrote: »

    it is fairer because evryone is doing it in the same place and with the same amount of time? why are people so determined to do it at home?hmmmm

    I answered this question already.


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    #105
    MaggieNF
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    yeah but you can study whenever, if the department felt there wouldn't be time for a project why would they introduce? i doubt it was for a bit of fun anyways


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    #106
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Reillyman wrote: »
    How is it fairer exactly?
    Because then your teacher can verify that YOU know how to do it, rather than your big brother who is doing Product Design in Uni ... :)

    Practising / working at home is grand, but a good teacher will at least check that you can do the stuff on your own in the classroom environment.
    Reillyman wrote: »
    So you can spend the time in school revising for the exam...
    Or revise at home? :)


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    #107
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    MaggieNF wrote: »
    yeah but you can study whenever, if the department felt there wouldn't be time for a project why would they introduce? i doubt it was for a bit of fun anyways

    I said revise, not study. By revise I mean going over the core topics with a teacher to explain the whole thing to you. This cannot be done at home. Project work can.

    And everyone should be reasonably competent with solidworks by this stage...

    And no, I don't have "an older brother in Uni," I am the eldest child.


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    #108
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Reillyman wrote: »
    And no, I don't have "an older brother in Uni," I am the eldest child.
    :rolleyes:

    Hypothetical situation, to illustrate a point! :p

    /throws custard pie at Reilly


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    #109
    MaggieNF
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Because then your teacher can verify that YOU know how to do it, rather than your big brother who is doing Product Design in Uni ... :)

    Practising / working at home is grand, but a good teacher will at least check that you can do the stuff on your own in the classroom environment.

    Or revise at home? :)

    gotta agree with that point :)


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    #110
    UpTheSlashers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭UpTheSlashers


    Just on the toipic of "Primary Research" how can i prove i took pictures myself? And is there any other method of primary research? I presume the internet wouldnt count :p


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    #111
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    Primary research is basically any research you do yourself. Getting reviews off the internet is secondary research, whereas physically trying out all the different controllers and commenting on them would be an example of primary research.

    Hope this helps.


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    #112
    tanora78
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭tanora78


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    #113
    010010011010
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭010010011010


    ya the handles are tricky to get right,

    just wondering how would they know if you did it at home?

    ecause surely if they can tell who made it, it defys the point of havin an exam number


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    #114
    MaggieNF
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    they can tell if you did it at home by the IP address. computers in your school would have te same one, but one at home would be different, and since you cant change the IP address then they will knwo you did it somewhere other than school


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    #115
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    MaggieNF wrote: »
    they can tell if you did it at home by the IP address. computers in your school would have te same one, but one at home would be different, and since you cant change the IP address then they will knwo you did it somewhere other than school

    1) Do you seriously believe the IP address can't be changed?

    2) Are you still whinging about this?

    Come back to me in August and we'll see "all the marks I'm going to lose":rolleyes:


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    #116
    Eire-Dearg
    Registered Users Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    Reillyman wrote: »
    1) Do you seriously believe the IP address can't be changed?

    2) Are you still whinging about this?

    Come back to me in August and we'll see "all the marks I'm going to lose":rolleyes:
    Did you try any of it at home?


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    #117
    MaggieNF
    Registered Users Posts: 230 ✭✭MaggieNF


    Reillyman wrote: »
    1) Do you seriously believe the IP address can't be changed?

    you can change it with a lot of effort,
    Reillyman wrote: »
    2) Are you still whinging about this??

    yes, well i don't "whinge" not that you would know, on the brief it states to do it in school, but whatever do it at home. I am personally more worried about my project not yours.
    Reillyman wrote: »
    Come back to me in August and we'll see "all the marks I'm going to lose"
    in august it will be marks you lost not going to lose :)

    and once i get my course, i don't really care what you get in your exam


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    #118
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Are you saying Solidworks logs the IP of the workstation your drawing on?

    How do we submit the projects? Print them out and send them? Or email the PDF file?


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    #119
    Mmcd
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Mmcd


    Conor108 wrote: »
    Are you saying Solidworks logs the IP of the workstation your drawing on?

    How do we submit the projects? Print them out and send them? Or email the PDF file?
    Print them out and send them and put the pdfs on the cd!


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    #120
    Reillyman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Reillyman


    MaggieNF wrote: »
    I am personally more worried about my project not yours.

    and once i get my course, i don't really care what you get in your exam

    Well why on earth are you constantly trying to convince me to do it in school? Seems to me your the type of person who has a pet-hate of people breaking rules. Come to the dark side...


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    #121
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    Mmcd wrote: »
    Print them out and send them and put the pdfs on the cd!

    Thats what I thought! How would that even show the IP address of the computer you did it on? Solidworks wouldn't even log it! And I'd imagine most schools have dynamic IP addresses anyway! Crazy argument!


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