Isn't the Punch Lounge a water cooler area? Albeit a super quiet, gloomy quiet one?
If one looks at the graphics the presenter made in Blender, one might feel like I did: I wish I could someday make graphics that good."
But, to be honest, I really don't care so much about rendering as I do about getting concepts into place.
As I watched, it wasn't just the nuke/nuc stuff that was intriguing (especially since at around age 12, in the 70s, I got to see a drawn nuclear reactor on a huge roll of paper some 20 feet long), I kept thinking about my crappy line work in the bow sheer area of my ship hull because I'm not correctly using SharkCAD's Check Inflections tool, I'm using curves/surfaces/solids, and not meshes, and so on. So, hull-superstructure issues need fixing.
Besides, doesn't SharkCAD have some animation facilities? It sure would be nice if the forum got a boost in odficial engagement and new content. One thing I'm hoping is that I trigger some uplift in interest in the company and the product.
As for the forum being pretty dead, it seems the posting got some views.
Maybe there's hope that PunchCAD will turn around. I'm banking on it by planning to sell drawings in SharkCAD format. Tho, the great risk is that they could run into licensing key issues mentioned in another thread by LG.
And, there's the great risk that since one of my drawings has over 5,000 layers, the file will be hard as hell to use in or export to usage in other CAD apps. Being 360 MB in saved file size and now averaging 4 GB RAM (can balloon to 9 GB if open several days and heavily perused/edited) will make problems for anyone using less than 40 MB (my laptop is year 2022, 48mb, HP Victus, 3060-ish graphics, driving 3 displays, but, it's better than I could ask for, for now...
And, since the layers (I don't know about the Layers functionality beyond V12, which is what I'm on) cannot be moved outside their current nested area, that's going to be massive target on my back.
As for posting to social media, I did that, too. Mainly for some to see the power of using CAD in cool ways, not just merely making production or shop floor drawings.
But, thanks for the feedback. It was kinda sobering and saddening. (Don't take that as demeaning or disparaging, please.)
