Solid Works

[Algol Devilstar]

Anyone know where I can get this... ehem "cheaply?" I am modeling my house and I used solidworks a lot in school. The software a friend let me borrow is causing me undue stress. It's called Punch Pro and for some reason I can't figure out how to change dimensions once you create the general shape, i.e. I was trying to set the foundation by first creating the above view general shape and then actually input the exact dimensions. Currently I have not figured out why it won't let me edit the wall dimensions in any view, yep thas right you have to set it EXACTLY the right size, the first time. This is retarded and I know it has to have a wall edit tool, goddamn why can't I just click on the wall dimension and change it? Anyways Im giving up on this crap software and want to model it in SolidWorks... so back to the original question: anyone know where I can get this? Thanks in advance =D

[Vorph]

Usenet.

[9933]-[#altbin@EFNet]-[SOLIDWORKS.V2007.SP2.0-MAGNiTUDE]-[02/72] - "magnitude.nfo"

6.5GB download, posted 1/5/07 in alt.binaries.cd.image

SW2006 is on there too, 12/11/06 in alt.binaries.warez. Old version was only 2GB apparently.

[Algol Devilstar]

Thanks Vorph, I have never used that before... do I just plug it in address bar?

[Vorph]

Nah, you need a usenet account from somewhere. Easynews.com is the simplest one, because of their web interface and searching tools.

[Icedtea]

I remember my dad working for this company as an NC programmer and it costed 20k to get a license for 1 computer running Solid Works

Ya, I know it's random

[Zeste]

I get the feeling that the topics here aren't entirely legel!

[Algol Devilstar]

Sssh its a secwet!

Hrm this is kinda confusing.. so I am DLing it all in parts, do they combine magically at the end with RAR? Or do I gotta do something? Also what is Parity - nonparity?

[Algol Devilstar]

Vorph I lined up all the DLs (each 96MBish)... but there is a warning that DLing large file sizes causes corruption. Do you have any experience with this? Thanks for your help btw!

[Vorph]

Large files = greater than 2GB. You can either add all the files to Zip Manager and download in ~2GB chunks and then have to unzip + unrar, or do like I do and use a Firefox extension like DownThemAll! to get the rars directly.

PARs are for when there are missing/corrupt files, which doesn't happen on Easynews anymore because they have added an AutoPAR feature that does that step on their end automatically.

[Algol Devilstar]

so I got to the install and realized I dont have a serial number, any help on obtaining one? =)

edit: for SW2007 that is.

[Vorph]

There's normally a nfo file that is posted with the release.

± 1) unRAR and burn
± 2) check ".txt" from "\MAGNiTUDE" dir
± 3) enjoy another fine MAGNiTUDE-release!

[Algol Devilstar]

nm Im a tard

[Kiroy]

So how do Usenet's work? You pay a bit of money and get a month to fill up on 20gigs of whatever cool stuff you find? I haven't really ventured into the p2p world of the internet yet.

[Algol Devilstar]

pretty much, but it's definitely not user friendly. I had to bumble around a lot before getting anywhere. I am happy with my new software tho =)

[Vorph]

Easynews is almost too user friendly*, actually. Between the global search (I assume someone gave you a link to that, since you managed to find Solid Works), autounrar/par features, the web indices, and automatic NZB creation almost anyone could figure out how to download from usenet now. It's a far cry from how things used to be when all we had was nntp clients and no searching at all.

*-From a legal standpoint, that is. Easynews (and most other good usenet providers) keeps no records at all of anything you do on their servers, either uploading or downloading. They get away with this only because they are below the radar of the RIAA and their pocket congressmen.