Animation
Hello, Wayne. I tried in vain to find you at the AEC conference in Dallas
last June, but never could catch you. Your compadres even told me to go to
where you were conducting a session, but I didn't want to interrupt. I
really wanted to connect a face with these messages.
New school year and we've already had some problems to solve with Aflix. A
student had a drawing and when he tried to load the path.lsp the whole
computer locked up. We finally blocked the drawing, called it up under the
new name, and then were able to load the path.lsp. We never did figure out
what he had done when drawing to cause the problem. Any ideas?
We now have nine 386 machines with 80 mg. hard drives and 4 mg. RAM. That
probably doesn't sound like much to you guys, but we are excited. We also
have some donated funds with which to buy more software. We think that we
will get 3DStudio, which hopefully will be much less frustrating for the
kids to use than AutoFlix. What is your opinion?
I would like to put in a good word for John and Marsha West of PCIII, a
company here in Houston that does animated presentations commercially. They
are also AutoCAD dealers. They have been very generous with their time and
technical support for our school. I wish they were our educational
reps–for a couple of reasons. One is that they are local. I don't have to
play telephone tag with them. (Our rep. is in Dallas). Two is that they
use the software and are able to answer questions and actually pride
technical support. Our educational reps are good at selling, but they just
can't provide answers to the kinds of problems we run into. AutoDesk
should consider making them the educational representatives for the Houston
area. Houston is big enough that we should have someone local. (Dallas is
not local.)
Looking forward to "hearing" from you. Hopefully this year we'll have some
animations I can be proud to send you. By the way, both of my students did
place at the state competition last May.
Tired teacher, Tommie Montgomery