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I am a 30-something year old father of two.
Dante – a three year old autistic boy. Sometimes referred to as “Mini Matt”
Melody – an 18 month old with speech delays (but not autistic)
I have a beautiful wife who is my college sweetheart.
I have been living in the wonderful city of Charlotte, NC for the past three years…and I am quite happy with the area.
My occupation is as a Software Test Engineer. Since most people don’t know what that is, I can tell you that, essentially, I break software for a living. More specifically, I search for defects in software for a living. For the most part I enjoy my job, but I am constantly wondering if I wouldn’t be happier doing something else.
My favorite author is, without doubt, Isaac Asimov. However, I don’t read that much. I am a member of the Nintendo generation and enjoy watching TV and playing video games much more enjoyable than reading.
I graduated from James Madison University in 1998 and Waynesboro High School/CSVRGS (Central Shenandoah Valley Regional Governor’s School) in 1994.
I have recently taken up knitting, which is calming, but also pretty dull. I am currently working on a JMU/WHS scarf to wear to football games. Both school’s colors are Purple and Gold (convenient, no?).
I pride myself on my own quirky sense of humor and intelligence and curse my laziness. All perfectly normal I’m sure.
My favorite music is Country, Soft Rock and Oldies (and that is pretty much it). My favorite date with my wife is to go to the movies. Though we also go bowling and to putt-putt.
My favorite foods are Pizza and Buffalo Wings (when I can find good ones).
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Hi,
Is the screenshot in this blog post the of the model you made in 3DVIA Shape?
Yes it is.
Thanks for reading…
Hi Matt (or should that be Maxi Matt?),
You have a great collection of starships! And all done in 3DVIA Shape – pretty amazing. Would you be interested in doing some tutorials on how you constructed some of them?
Thanks,
Don
Hi Don, thanks for reading.
I suppose I could be persuaded to do a few tutorials. What specifically are you looking for? Do you want me to create a model and record it as I go with commentary? That would be relatively quick and simple. If you are looking for a more directed tutorial (ex: “How to create a coffee cup?”) then I may not be able to do it. The nice thing about space ships is that nobody knows what they are supposed to look like.
For the weapons test, it says “only the last score will count”, can that be changed to “only the highest score will count”. It would be frustrating to get a 90%, try again for a better score, get 85% and have that erase my best score.
-Juan
Juan,
That makes sense. I wanted there to be a risk involved in making that decision (to try again).
I am hoping people don’t spend a lot of time in the testing section. It is mostly to eliminate training levels for people who don’t need them.
For now, I am still a long time before I get to this step. I will probably make that decision at the time I code it.
Hi,
Your blog looks pretty good, congrats for this work !
As I have a WordPress blog, and working sometimes with catia, I will be very interested by implented 3D things in my blog..
Could it be possible you tell me how did you embedded th 3D shapes in your blog ??
Many thanks for your answer
Cheers, Olivier
Greetings.
I put in a request to wordpress to allow for the use of the iframe widget from 3dvia.com I’m not sure if they have, or will, add 3dvia as an allowable iframes target. But for now, I have simply taken screen prints from 3dvia.com and cropped them and embedded them as pictures. Not exactly an elegant solution, but it worked.
Thanks,
Matt
That’s sound good ! Thanks for the info ..
Cheers, Olivier
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