************************************************************************ T h e C o n n e c t o r The E-mail Newsletter for Gridgen Users April 2005 IN THIS ISSUE 1) CHANGES TO GRIDGEN HARDWARE/OS SUPPORT 2) Current Release 3) Coming In the Next Release 4) Gridgen User Group Meeting - REGISTRATION DEADLINE 08 APRIL 5) Glyph Script Sharing 6) Upcoming Gridgen Training Courses 7) Pointwise Event Schedule 8) Gridgen Tricks and Tips 9) Free Gridgen Manuals for Contributing Focal Point Articles ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ 1) CHANGES TO GRIDGEN HARDWARE/OS SUPPORT There are changes in the works to Gridgen's line-up of supported platforms and operating systems. *** MS Windows Effective immediately, support for Microsoft Windows will be limited to the XP and 2000 operating systems. This does not mean that Gridgen will necessarily cease to function on older Microsoft OS's. However, Pointwise will no longer test and support Gridgen on them. *** HP-UX Gridgen will cease support for HP-UX 10.20 on PA-RISC, effective 01 July 2005. Gridgen’s HP-UX support on PA-RISC will be upgraded to HP-UX 11.11. Gridgen’s support for HP-UX 11.23 on Itanium is unaffected by this announcement. *** Other OS's Other changes affecting Sun, Compaq/DEC, IBM, and SGI platforms will commence in October, 2005. See the full announcement for further details: http://www.pointwise.com/pr/eol_mar05.shtml. ************************************************************************ 2) Current Release: Gridgen V15.06 Details on the current release can be found on our web site at: http://www.pointwise.com/library/relnotes.pdf. Highlights include: -Port to Mac OS X -Simultaneous hex and prism extrusion -Adjacent grid extrusion BC ************************************************************************ 3) Coming In the Next Release Although our next maintenance release, V15.07, is not yet available, as a subscriber to The Connector you have access to a pre-release copy of the V15.07 release notes. Find out what new features and fixes are currently slated for the next MR here: http://www.pointwise.com/library/prerelnotes.pdf. ************************************************************************ 4) Gridgen User Group Meeting Friday, 08 April, is the last day to register for the 2005 Gridgen UGM Sign up now at http://www.pointwise.com/ugm. See you in Fort Worth on April 25 and 26! Have a question that the UGM 2005 web site doesn't answer? E-mail it to ugm@pointwise.com. ************************************************************************ 5) Glyph Script Sharing A new resource has been added to the Support area of our web site: a facility for exchanging Glyph scripts. A variety of scripts are available for immediate download. Each script has its own page with a detailed description of what it does, including screen shots if the script uses a GUI. Sample files for testing the scripts are available too. What's even more exciting is that we want to add your scripts to the collection. If you have developed a script that you think will benefit the Gridgen community, look for the Upload A Script button on the web site. Check it out now: http://www.pointwise.com/glyph/. ************************************************************************ 6) Upcoming Gridgen Training Courses Gridgen Training Courses currently scheduled for 2005 at Pointwise's Fort Worth office include: 10-12 May 12-14 July 13-15 September 08-10 November Register early since the classes are kept small and fill up fast. More training information, including a registration form, can be found on our web site at: http://www.pointwise.com/support/train.shtml. ************************************************************************ 7) Pointwise Event Schedule Pointwise will be participating in the following conferences and events: SAE 2005 World Congress 11-14 April 2005 Detroit, MI http://www.sae.org/congress/ STAR American Conference 2005 17-18 May 2005 Detroit, MI 19 May 2005 La Jolla, CA http://www.cd-adapco.com/support/USUGM05/USugm05.html ************************************************************************ 8) Gridgen Tricks and Tips There is an additional database picking control, the “DB Pick Mask” command, that was added to Gridgen when the Layer Manager was added. The pick mask allows users to turn off and on selection of database entities by entity type. So, for instance, if you wish to pick only bounded surfaces, you can toggle off all other entity types in the DB PICK MASK menu, and then only bounded surfaces will be pickable in either the browser or Display window. ************************************************************************ 9) Free Gridgen Manuals for Contributing Focal Point Articles We are now looking for new article ideas for upcoming issues of Focal Point. Anyone contributing an article that is used in Focal Point will receive a free set of bound Gridgen V15 Manuals, a $76 value when purchased from our partners at OnDemandManuals.com. To obtain more information about contributing an article, please send an email to FocalPoint@pointwise.com. Everything you want to know about Focal Point, including how to subscribe, may be found at: http://www.pointwise.com/focalpt/. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ Resources... 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