Re: Re: ASME (or other) Piping Codes and Standards

Christopher Wright wrote:
> On Aug 11, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Paul Bowers wrote:
>
>> Some people must enjoy working with the limitations that CAD often
>> presents, I do not.
> Likely because they don't know better, same as with people who still
> prefer pencil and paper. I always have a hard time at first with a
> new system to do existing work, because I don't like change for its
> own sake. Software developers need trivial changes to make users
> think that the upgrade means something, but to me it's just another
> unnecessary learning curve. Microsoft is notorious for this, MS Word
> v 5.1 is probably the best software Microsoft ever wrote, and all the
> 'upgrades in the last 10 years only clutter it up.

I know how to manipulate code and run and test it in a sandbox so that it doesn't F-up everything. Typically, when I propose that "X" can be done I'm met with blank stares and "well, maybe we'll propose that for the next project".

On-site CAD support people often are just glorified software support technicians that have no authority or knowledge of how the software actually works. This is not helpful for the designers.

Maybe I'm not a typical piping designer; I just want things to work, period. If it doesn't work, I'll try to fix it.

Aargh.

Paul Received on Sat Aug 11 11:30:00 2007