User talk:Freeformer

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Hello, Freeformer, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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[edit] Re: Welcome and newbi question

Hi, thanks for your message. A stub becomes an article as it gets up to a reasonable size. There is no hard and fast rules regarding the size ... but in general, an article with about a pageful of content should not be left as a stub. If you feel an article is more or less satisfactorily long enough, you are free to remove the stub message.

To propose a move, you should first initiate a discussion in the talk page of the corresponding article.

Thanks. --Ragib 22:14, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Remark

Hi. Just a request. It is good to put an edit summary, even for minor edits if your changes are subtle and not obvious, and definitely for big edits. It helps people who have a given article on the watchlist to understand what you are up to. Think of it as the "Subject" line in an email. Thanks a lot, Oleg Alexandrov 20:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Neat article

Freeform surface modelling. Gives good insight and has cool dynamic image. -thanks, Onceler 21:12, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NURBS Picture

Thanks for finding a picture. That was quick. —BenFrantzDale 20:48, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

May I ask you what application you used to actually animage that image? 89.240.165.229 19:36, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

It was a Camtasia screen record of NX (Unigraphics) then edited (to make smaller) in Jasc Animation Shop.
Thanks muchly. Kyle McInnes (talk) 16:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CAD companies

Logic of deletion in List of CAD companies: The same logic as in all lists in wikipedia: to be listed, must have a wikipedia article. There have been thousands of companies that call themselves CAD companies, with two hundred of them folding yearly. The cornerstones for wikipedia inclusion are notability and verifiability. Wikipedia is not Yellow Pages. I left only companies that have articles either about themselves or about some of their products. mikka (t) 17:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Please don't forget to sign your posts; see top of your talk page. mikka (t) 17:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Spoon sh.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:Spoon sh.jpg. However, the image may soon be deleted unless we can determine the copyright holder and copyright status. The Wikimedia Foundation is very careful about the images included in Wikipedia because of copyright law (see Wikipedia's Copyright policy).

The copyright holder is usually the creator, the creator's employer, or the last person who was transferred ownership rights. Copyright information on images is signified using copyright templates. The three basic license types on Wikipedia are open content, public domain, and fair use. Find the appropriate template in Wikipedia:Image copyright tags and place it on the image page like this: {{TemplateName}}.

Please signify the copyright information on any other images you have uploaded or will upload. Remember that images without this important information can be deleted by an administrator. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, or ask them at the Image legality questions page. Thank you. Stan 23:45, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Freeform1.gif

Hello there, I really like this animation. I've nominated it for selected picture at the architecture portal, and placed it on my talk page. Hope you don't mind :-). Looking through some of your other uploads, I like this especially because it doesn't show the application tool-boxes (because I know what those look like already). Do you mind if I upload this to the Commons, Wikipedia's shared image repository? Regards, DVD+ R/W 21:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Glad to know the image is liked. No problem about where it is used, it was uploaded to wiki for general use.

These animations are really cool. Do you take requests? I have a few if you don't mind. Can you make a higher res version of Freeform1 without the pixelated / noisy background? And, can you make one that shows lofting (or sweeping?) between two contours? Also, can you make one that shows a transformation of a solid rather than a surface? Regards, DVD+ R/W 18:22, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:Blend1a.gif

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[edit] Your uploads

Hey I notice you have uploaded a fair number of images which you tagged as GFDL. As an example, Image:NX4.png is NOT your work to release under the GFDL or any other free license. That is a screenshot of a copyrighted program (NX (Unigraphics)). As such, it is protected by the softwares copyright and should correctly be tagged with {{software-screenshot}}. See the wording of that template and Wikipedia:Fair use for a greater understanding of this. Also, the animations of you using this software, whilst highly informative again are probably an infringement of the companies copyright. Thanks, if you have any queries feel free to ask me.--Nilfanion (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Although the software is copyrighted so it cannot be used without paying a fee to the owner I see these images as fair use. I have a legal license for NX and the software used to create the images (Camtasia and Paint Shop Pro). It is possible that the icons and user interface of the software are copyrighted but the screen shots are of a very small size that I see no problem with them. The geometry is created by me and are not real world copyrighted parts. I have updated the text for the image you referenced; do you see this as an acceptable licensing statement? Freeformer 06:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair use seems fine to me with the screenshot ones that include the interface. The ones without the toolboxes etc. I think are fine as GFDL. Just what I think, DVD+ R/W 17:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alias v/s Autodesk

Hi FreeFormer,

Regarding the Computer-aided_industrial_design page, if this is the product you meant, AliasStudio is the correct name. The old version of the page was talking about a generic Alias product and usually "the Alias product" is Maya. Now, as you know, Alias doesn't exist anymore and the only trace left is in the name of the StudioTools product now called AliasStudio.

Regarding the classification of Industrial Design as PLM, I still disagree. None of the product for PLM includes an ID or CAID module. ID is part of the product lifecycle, the same way welding, or marketing are part of it, but not part of any PLM system.

My suggestion is to remove the category.

--Folini 15:57, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Folini,

For product design most people I know simply use the term Alias for the software package from the company that used to be called Alias. Although Maya was also from the same company I have not seen it often used for product design. Maybe Maya should however also be mentioned along side AliasStudio in the CAID article.

On the topic of PLM category. PLM is term for the tools and methods for developing and manufacturing products. It is not just data management software such as PDM but also geometry creation tools such as CAD,CAM,CAE and I also would say CAID, PLM is not a single software system. Should we move this discussion over to the PLM talk page, see what others think? Freeformer 17:59, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] moved image

Hi, could you explain what the entry in Image:Spline01.gif means? Also why is the use of this on Nonuniform rational B-spline not referenced in Links? Freeformer 20:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Are you refering to "This picture/multimedia file is now available on Wikimedia Commons as Image:Spline01.gif."? That means the image is now availabe to use for all Wikimedia projects. It appears the image is not used in the Nonuniform rational B-spline article so that's why it isn't listed. // Liftarn
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