I too asked about this on the forum. I was basically told SW advertises because they are desperate and they have to in order to gain market share. Conversely, Inventor is such an amazing Titan, that no advertising is necessary.



It was rather hard to concentrate on those explanations as the band started to play louder and the ship deck began to tilt rather noticeably.

I work at one of seven rather small companies that are part a holding company. My company is the only one that uses IV. Even more troubling is that I'm the only one in my company that actually uses IV! The vast majority of work all the companies do is still in plain 2D AutoCAD, but the solid modeling popularity contest was won by SW with IV (and me by association) not making it out of the auditions.

Do you mind clueing me in on who in Okaloosa County?



John

http://1punisher.wordpress.com

Dennis..

Don't waste your time adding attachments.. They don't work.



Solidworks has a completely functional discussion board..

They work for me too, using firefox.

Still have to download jpg's though, still not showing in the browser like they used too...

I'm trying to find out:

- what issues have been resolved
- what issues are being worked
- known issues with various readers
- what the status is with posting/seeing file attachments

If I find anything out, I'll let everyone know.

Thanks!

- G

Thanks Ray!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

Not sure if you wanted responses here Gary...

WinXP, SP2

Internet Explorer does not display pics, have to click on the link to
download or view first - doesn't always work however, as JD mentioned I
think it depends on the orientation of the planets or something.

On the nntp side;
I cannot always establish a connection to download headers or retrieve
messages. This is off and on all day. Seems I can connect about 50%
of the time. During the time I cannot retrieve headers or messages, I
am able to post messages however.

"Outlook Express" displays pictures and I can download other attachments

"Claws Mail" displays pictures and I can download other attachments

"Pan" displays pictures and I can download other attachments

For the nntp side, my comments are the same from a Linux O.S.
concerning establishing a connection to retrieve headers and messages
and the same comments I made about the "Claws Mail" and "Pan"
newsreaders.

FYI,

Thanks for looking into for everybody.

--
Inventor 10 Series
SP3a + TS1069046 (Inventor Text Broken By Microsoft update)

Awesome!

If anyone else has particulars regarding your "broken" experience, add them
here!

Thanks!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

Replying to my own thread: I just discovered another problem. There are no paragraphs in my post. To test, I'll press enter twice now

This line should have one white space line above it.


This line should have two white space lines above it.

So, wonder how this will look when I press "Post Message"

Me too, but if I hit the tab key, IE7 fills in the password field correctly. Then I hit the Submit key and I'm in. As to why those two actions aren't done AUTOMATICALLY, I have no clue. I wonder if using Opera would work any better... Oh, and the slowness? It's not a bug, it's a feature! It allows one to pause and be self-introspective. Very Zen.

Gary-along with everything else, the "Save Now" button on the message window doesn't work either, and I have yet to find the option to flag a message as a question. IE7, Ken

Gary,
You probably need to start a new thread on this topic, but since you
asked..... here goes.

1. The only thing that I can do from the HTTP side is view messages. Notice
I said messages, not images. Images are shown in the IE7 browser as the
Square with a red "X" in the middle. I can right-click on the image name
and chose "Open in new tab". The new tab opens and sometimes I can see the
image, but most of the time I get a Jive Forum 5 error saying "An general
error occurred while processing your request.". Very frustrating.
2. I have to login every freaking time I look at the newsgroup. I have the
"Remember me" checked, but I still have to enter the password.
3. If I sign-out, then sign-in as a different user, at the top of the page
it says "Welcome (my name here)". The name never changes. It always keeps
the name of the first one that signed in.
4. The biggest issue that I have is not being able to post from my
workstation. See my post from October 3 (More troubles with this forum).
http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=6044403#6044403.
When I try to post, I get an error in the bottom left corner that says
"Error:Object doesn't support this property or method".
5. When viewing messages on the forum, all the text is ran together in the
message. There is no spaces to seperate out the paragraphs.
6. When viewing the messages, all of the replys are left justified. There
is no indentation to help identify which message the poster is replying to.
Makes it very time consuming to read. Old forum had indentation.
7. When I add a thread to my watch list and something is added to the
thread, I get an email letting me know something has been added to the
thread and in the email the new text is shown. If the post was done from
nttp, then I can read it. If the post was done from the http side, there is
so much html formatting in the message it is not worth the while to try and
figure it all out. When I click on the link in the email and go to the
message, I have to read through the entire thread just to find what is new.
On the old forum, the new messages were marked with the word NEW in red bold
text.
8. If I post from the nttp side, on the left, it just shows my user id.
Like where yours just says "Gary R. Smith\(...". If I post from the http
side, it shows my user id as well as total number of posts and registered
date. Doesn't really matter, just be consistent.

Thanks,
Kirk


"Gary R Smith (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:6053953@discussion.autodesk.com...
Awesome!

If anyone else has particulars regarding your "broken" experience, add them
here!

Thanks!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

Gary,

I had rather have the spam than all the troubles we are having now.
Patience is also approching zero.

Thanks for the update.


"Gary R Smith (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:6054486@discussion.autodesk.com...
UPDATE:

The team is actively working on the intermittent attachment problem and the
line break issue.

I suspect there are going to be classes of issues that will exist for some
readers/browsers/operating systems that will not be resolved any time soon.

It was pointed out that spam volume is approaching zero - for which I am
grateful.

I would encourage you to continue being patient and if you are experiencing
issues: please post with as many specifics as possible.

Thanks!

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

Gary,
Thanks for the update. Just to let you know, I can now post using your "workaround". Here is what I have done. Hopefully it may help others.

1. Enabled cookies. See http://www.betfred.com/help/static/cookiehelp_ie.htm. This is how I did it.
2. When I reply to a post, the rich text interface is not shown. I hit the "back" arrow, then the "forward" arrow. Now the rich text interface is shown.

Hopefully this will be resolved soon and we will not have to use the workaround (too many of them already).

Thanks

P.S. I would like to add that it is not easy to get to the "watched messages". Now we have to navigate to "Your Control Panel", then click on the "Your Watches". After you are here, you can't easily get back to the forum. There is a link there that will carry you back to the forum index. You have to then navigate through all the pages just to get back to the forum. Takes too long. They need to put the watch list back out in the front like it was before.

LOL! Good one JD!



I don't know if you meant that as a joke, but when I clicked your link I got a message:



Looking for something?

We're sorry. The Web address you entered is not a functioning page on our site





I don't know whether the website upgrades are a comedy or a trajedy



BTW - to the OE users, it may work, but my preference (in general for forums) is the web interface. I can check it from home and work and not have to download all the posts.