SurePro Solutions Launches SolidWorks 2016

Makati City. Breadcrumbs? 5K resolution? Child dependency? Together, do these topics make any sense at all? Absolutely! If you are a big time fan of 3D computer aided design or 3D CAD, these absolutely make sense. SolidWorks (SW) 2016 the latest iteration of the French company Dassault Systèmes’s 3D CAD software was just launched at The Blue Leaf Filipinas in Aseana City by its authorized re-seller SurePro Solutions.

Live demo, customer testimony, games and prizes at SurePro's
SolidWorks 2016 launch. #iloveSW2016 #SureproSW2016

Breadcrumbs is one of the features added to the SW 2016 and it makes life easier for engineers and designers. Previous versions of SW took designers to a time consuming routine of clicks through the feature manager while searching for features, solid body, part or assembly relevant to a selected face, edge or vertex. With breadcrumbs lodged on the graphics area itself, it is now easier to edit features and sketches, as well as to modify parts and large assemblies. With this new tweak, categorization is also much easier.


Another amazing new feature of SW 2016 is its compatibility with 5K resolution monitors. If you’re having a difficult time digesting what that information mean, try visualizing a 105” UHD LED TV. Now try visualizing doing your CAD design on that LED with all its clarity, crispness and life-like rendition of images you are working on. This is what SW 2016 has done.

Color blind? No problem. Part of the modernized user interface of SolidWorks 2016 is the color scheme adjustment which takes into account visual disability such as color blindness.

Child dependency visualization, something that creates clutter on your feature manager in previous versions can now be hidden in the new in SW 2016. An added feature that also streamlines the design process is the linking of “flag notes” with “balloons”, while rearranging stacked balloons is as easy as click-hold-and-drop mouse movement.

Michael T. Cagan, RME and Joseph Ryan Carbonilla, RME, of SurePro did the
demo on some of SW 2016's new features.

These are just some of the new features presented by engineers Ryan Joseph Carbonilla and Michael T. Cagan of SurePro Solutions in their demo during the launch event. Mostly present were designers, mechanical engineers and project managers from some of the leading manufacturing companies in the Philippines.

It wasn’t just serious stuff too at the event as participants were treated to games and raffle draws with exciting prizes. The top prize—a 32” LED—went to James Villanis of Toshiba Information Equipment (Philippines), Inc. Another highlight of the event saw participants worked together in a story-telling game that should begin with the following lines:

Participants also showed their literary creativity in a story telling game.

Once upon a time…

Everyday…

But one day…

Because of that…

Until finally…

And ever since then…

But the caveat was that they have to tell a story along the lines of the event’s theme of “Make Great Designs Happen” and SolidWorks. The photo here demonstrates that engineers do have literary creative juices in them as well.

Back a bit to SolidWorks 2016, if you haven’t upgraded yet or gotten you first licensed copy you will be missing out on a lot! Get in touch now with SurePro Solutions! They can help you out with product demos and their technical team is one of the most experienced in conducting SolidWorks training. SurePro has scheduled a hands-on test drive of SW 2016 for free this coming 22 and 29 October. Slots are limited so better check out their website at www.surepro.com.ph for more details. Please refer to SurePro Solutions contact details below.

Mr. Anthony Co
SurePro Solutions Inc.
7/F Unit C-1 OPL Building
100 C. Palanca Cor. De la Rosa St.
Legaspi Village, Makati City
Tel: +63.2.892.3724 | Fax: +63.2.519.00559
www.surepro.com.ph
   


That’s it for now. Mr. Two-shots Espresso here, signing off.

Two Tragedies

First, I can’t even begin to fathom the pain being suffered by Sec. Angelo Reyes’s family and friends. He is a husband to a wife. A father to his children. A senior “mistah” to fellow officers. Certainly, no one, least of all family members, should endure this kind of a tragedy.

And while indeed it is a tragic event and deeply painful for Sec. Reyes’s family, I think it is equally tragic for many Filipinos, that, in the midst of the recent allegations of corruption and explosive testimonies implicating high ranking members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the truth about Sec. Reyes's role may never come to full light.

His sudden death is so preemptive and takes so much away from the pursuit of accepted norms—legal or otherwise: “Innocent until proven guilty”; “right to face your accuser”; and more importantly “truth in the name of justice.”

A friend of mine wrote, “To be an officer takes at least four years.... to be a gentleman is really hard...” This reminded me of Jack Nicholson’s character Col. Nathan R. Jessep in the Rob Reiner film “A Few Good Men”, hollering from the witness stand “You can’t handle the truth!”

And for me that is where the tragedy lies. Never mind “handling the truth”. I, like many Filipinos just probably want to KNOW and LEARN the truth.

Now, the wives of the generals have been asked or about to be asked to testify before congress to help shed light to the charges of corruption. I work 10, 11 hours daily. Some of my hard-earned money I give to my parents for food, housing, medicines and other living expenses. I have not even bought at any point in my life, a television set. Many of us could not even make sense of what one million pesos is, let alone 50 million or 150 million.

And these wives (apparently/allegedly) have properties abroad and travel extensively. I think I speak for many others like me when I say “Why go and explain to congress?”

And why we all contemplate on the suddenness and the sadness of Sec. Reyes’s death, I invite these wives and their children to any venue—at a plaza, a mall, on the street—to meet with me, and others like me, and to look straight in our eyes and say “We did not steal! We are not corrupt! Our wealth, we amassed, just like you by working hard and honestly for 10-11 hours a day!”

That’s the truth I, WE deserve. FOR I AM FATHER. I AM HUSBAND. I AM SON... And I and many Filipinos, are forced to endure our own daily “tragedies”... because there is no truth... there is no justice.

Calling on all honest workers—fathers, mothers, sons, daughters... in this age of the Internet.. time to EYEBALL those involved or named in this corruption scandal. We shouted before “TAMA NA! SOBRA NA! PALITAN NA!”. We can still DEMAND that again... and the street is always there for us for the taking!

Top 10 this, Top 5 that... Mali naman ata ang gamit

Monday, December 6, 2010 at 12:39pm

It used to be that when one say “Top 10” or “Top 5”, one is actually referring to “SEVERAL items” on a list that are ranked based on that “Top X number”. So, “Top 10” Bar/Board Exam passers would actually be a LIST OF NAMES ranked 1 to 10 from a pool of Bar/Board Exam takers. If you placed or is ranked 6th, then you would be IN the “Top 10” and be referred to as “No. 6.” Nowadays, instead of using the proper term “No. 6”, the terms “Top 6” is used. If you are No. 3 you are "Top 3".

More horrifying, is the use of the term “Top-notcher(s)” to mean just anyone who managed to secure a position in the “Top 10” or “Top 5” or top whatever! If you placed 6th, you’re No. 6—NOT “Top 6” and certainly NOT a TOP-NOTCHER. TOP nga eh, meaning nasa-ibabaw ka, eh kung meron pa’ng 1 to 5 na nakapatong sa iyo, nasa TOP ka ba? Or TOP-NOTCHER ba yun? Check out billboard ad of a review company on España near Lerma... or just listen to some parents/ya-yas talk about their kids BEING Top 2 or Top 5 in school...

Some of us grew up listening to Casey Kasem—the man who taught us how to count backwards from 40 to no. 1 on American Top 40 (Yes, there was this guy before Seacrest). He would maybe, say "From a band formed in LA, California and coming in at No. 4 here's The Eagles with Hotel California...."

Subukan natin, "From a band formed in LA, California and coming in Top 4, here's The Eagles with Hotel California...." Sagwa di ba?

What gives? Haaaayyy....

Hindi dahil sa “…ang pulis lang ang handang magpakamatay…”

Mayor, ang punto ay hindi dahil sa “…ang pulis lang ang handang magpakamatay…” Alam po namin yon. Kaya kami’ng mga "duwag", naging manunulat na lang, server sa Jollibee, doctor o di kaya call center agent. Pero hindi ang KAHANDAAN iyon ng kapulisan ang dapat maging dahilan upang hindi na maging saklaw ng anu mang bahid ng sisi (sabi sa google translate iyon daw ang “beyond reproach”) ang kapulisan, magi na ang mga tunay na mabubuting pulis kapag may kapalpakan na nangyari! A little exercise in humility is perhaps needed. Hindi na nga dapat kailangan ng isang IIRC report eh. Ang una’t at huli ng lahat ay may walong buhay ang nasawi. If that was not an indication of failure, eh ano pa? At kung may tunay na kabiguan, eh “dapat may managot” (iba yun sa “dapat may sisihin” ha!). Siempre mahirap nga ang managot sa kabiguan or paratang na kabiguan, kaya nga exercise in humility eh. Mahirap man tanggapin pero baka mas iyon siguro ang nararapat! Ibig sabihin, sana mag resign na lang at ika nga sa wikang ingles eh “to get off one’s high horse!” under the circumstances.

Nung 1995, sa Srebnica, sa kaligitnaan ng digmaan sa Balkans, mahigit na 7,000 muslim ang napatay ng mga Serbs. Isang report ang inilibas noong 2002, kung saan pinaratangan ang pamahalaang Holandes na may responsibiladad sila sa pagkamatay ng naturningang 7,000 mga muslim. Naiwasan daw sana ang pag paslang sa mga muslim kung may wastong kahandaan ang sundalong kinatawan ng pamahalaang Holandes at kung na pangasiwaan ng wasto ang sitwasyon. Ngunit hindi! Pagkatapos ng paglabas ng report, NAG-RESIGN (Opo, NAG-RESIGN o NAG-BITIW sa posisyon) ang buong gobyerno ni Wim Kok, Prime Minister nuon ng Dutch Government!

Ang diperensya sa atin… Ang galing natin… Ang galing ni Pacquiao. Atin si Pacquiao. Ang galling ni Charice. Atin si Charice! Ang galling ni Arnel Pineda. Atin si Arnel. Mabuhay ang Pinoy!

Eh sa pag-ako ng kapalpakan, paano tayo? Emote tayo si TV (para pa ring si Charice… anak ng…. talaga!)… “…pulis lang! (with matching pukpok sa lamesa and almost cry-cry on camera!)."

Ulit, hindi nga yun ang point! Ang punto eh, 8 buhay ang nawala, dapat may managot! Eh kung kaming mga "duwag", nagsusulat sa mga panahong iyon o di kaya ay naghahanda ng Jollibee Yum with Cheese o di kaya gumagamot ng may dengue sa PGH. Kami ba ang dapat managot?

Ipakita naman natin ang katapangan natin sa pag-ako ng kabiguan o kapalpakan!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/1391263/Dutch-cabinet-resigns-over-Serb-massacre.html