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Together, LINPACK and EISPACK represent the state of the art software for matrix computation.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;In the late 1970s, Cleve, who was then chairman of the computer science department at the University of New Mexico, wanted to be able to teach students in his linear algebra courses using the LINPACK and EISPACK software. However, he didn&#39;t want them to have to program in FORTRAN, because this wasn&#39;t the purpose of the course. So, as a &amp;quot;hobby&amp;quot; on his own time, he started to write a program that would provide simple interactive access to LINPACK and EISPACK. He named his program MATLAB, for MATrix LABoratory.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Over the next several years, when Cleve would visit another university to give a talk, or as a visiting professor, he would end up by leaving a copy of his MATLAB on the university machines. 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51. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/1947654374630414161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/1947654374630414161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-can-we-learn-from-my-collegue-at.html' title='What can we learn from my collegue at work?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-5514461155260503021</id><published>2009-09-13T07:05:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-12T14:10:49.735+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CAD"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="catia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Teach yourself methodlogies and process not the tools</title><content type='html'>Teach yourself methodlogies and process not the TOOLS!&lt;p&gt;When learning a new software tool, be it a CAD software or a analysis  &lt;br&gt;tool, keep reminding yourself of this. Learn the methodology and  &lt;br&gt;process not the tool. Learn why something is happening than how.&lt;p&gt;Delve deeper in different boundary conditions and domains than just  &lt;br&gt;blindly applying them repeatedly on models. Understand the difference  &lt;br&gt;and significance of different elements before choosing one over the  &lt;br&gt;other. Understand the different ways of loft before applying it in a  &lt;br&gt;cad model.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s very easy to loose sight of wood for the trees. But keep your  &lt;br&gt;mind alert and know what you are doing and do what you know. Anything  &lt;br&gt;else is just wasting time and resource.&lt;p&gt;Love to receive tips like this in your email or rss reader click this  &lt;br&gt;link &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/myaesi&quot;&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/myaesi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Post related to self learning of catia can be found by browsing this  &lt;br&gt;link &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=catia&quot;&gt;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=catia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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56. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/5514461155260503021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/5514461155260503021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/09/teach-yourself-methodlogies-and-process.html' title='Teach yourself methodlogies and process not the tools'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-5275306882984732617</id><published>2009-09-11T20:45:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-12T14:10:49.736+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CAD"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="catia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Why riding on road really works?</title><content type='html'>A few days back I made a post regarding how riding on a road improves  &lt;br&gt;your driving than practising it in open grounds. I used the same  &lt;br&gt;analogy to learning catia, solidworks, unigraphics, ansys , and  &lt;br&gt;nastran etc.&lt;p&gt;I laid out steps that one can take so that even without a real life  &lt;br&gt;example, one can accelerate one&amp;#39;s learning of a cad or cae tool.&lt;p&gt;Here in this post I will discuss why it works?&lt;p&gt;Why riding on real roads really work?&lt;p&gt;1. It puts you out of the leisure zone.&lt;br&gt;2. It presents you unexpected turns.&lt;br&gt;3. It puts you on the real test.&lt;br&gt;4. It focuses you not on results but on the process.&lt;br&gt;5. It presents the situation where you need to apply your knowledge at  &lt;br&gt;every turn.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Same applies for learning a tool. Be it a cad tool like catia,  &lt;br&gt;solidworks or unigraphics or be it an analysis software like ansys,  &lt;br&gt;nastran, fluent etc.&lt;p&gt;The main advantage is that you disregard the nonsense, superficial  &lt;br&gt;stuff and do the things that&amp;#39;s essential and important.&lt;p&gt;Changing gears at every corner is a skill that one learns when he is  &lt;br&gt;on a real road facing real traffic, same way, while doing a software  &lt;br&gt;with real world examples one learns of different constraints that  &lt;br&gt;never appears while practising a tutorial. And this constraints and  &lt;br&gt;limitations enables you to think and solve the assignments in creative  &lt;br&gt;ways.&lt;p&gt;So next time you sit to learn a software tool, shun the off repeated  &lt;br&gt;tutorial. Challenge yourself to make something that you can share with  &lt;br&gt;others. Challenge yourself to make something that others will find  &lt;br&gt;usefull. And begin making it. This will teach you 100 times more than  &lt;br&gt;following the steps of 100 tutorials!!&lt;p&gt;Try it!&lt;p&gt;Read the previous post related to learning software tools by clicking  &lt;br&gt;on the following link &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=tools&quot;&gt;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Subscribe to my-aesi with this link &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/myaesi&quot;&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/myaesi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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61. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/5275306882984732617'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/5275306882984732617'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-riding-on-road-really-works.html' title='Why riding on road really works?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-3359028732071073684</id><published>2009-09-08T06:24:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-12T14:10:49.737+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CAD"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="catia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Riding bike and learning catia what&#39;s the connection?</title><content type='html'>Until you ride bikes on real road, you won&amp;#39;t learn it. It&amp;#39;s 100% true  &lt;br&gt;for learning to drive a motorbike. And more so for all the software  &lt;br&gt;tools.&lt;p&gt;Until and unless you are working on a real project you won&amp;#39;t learn the  &lt;br&gt;tool. You may know how to use it but driving on the highway, with real  &lt;br&gt;traffic is the place which will hone your skills as a driver and in  &lt;br&gt;the same way on a tool.&lt;p&gt;But tutorials is what I have, I hear you say. Well then create some  &lt;br&gt;mini challenges. Challenges to produce something worth sharing. Here&amp;#39;s  &lt;br&gt;few idea for anyone learning a cad (catia, solidworks, unigraphics  &lt;br&gt;etc) program.&lt;p&gt;1. Select a place in your house, let&amp;#39;s say the bathroom and create all  &lt;br&gt;the bathroom assessories that you see in it in your chosen cad  &lt;br&gt;program. Design from start to finish and present 2d drawing just ready  &lt;br&gt;to be manufactured. Design with an intention of sharing all your model  &lt;br&gt;and cad drawing sheets with the world. Post them online. Let that be  &lt;br&gt;the real project you are working for.&lt;p&gt;2. Design a bicycle from scratch. Measure one and assemble a whole  &lt;br&gt;unit in your chosen cad program. Make drawing sheets which enables  &lt;br&gt;someone with the drawing to built the bicycle from ground up.&lt;p&gt;Well I can go on but I will stop here and let you decide how you want  &lt;br&gt;to create your own challenge.&lt;p&gt;The key thing in this whole exercise is your commitment to share your  &lt;br&gt;results. When you design and cad model with that intention, you will  &lt;br&gt;be in the very state of mind that actual designers are. It&amp;#39;s just like  &lt;br&gt;riding on a real road.&lt;p&gt;In my next post, I will discuss why this method works and things to  &lt;br&gt;remember while doing this kind of exercises.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Read more tools related stuff by clicking the below link&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=tools&quot;&gt;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=tools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enjoy my-aesi in rss or email by clicking on this link&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/myaesi&quot;&gt;http://feeds.feedburner.com/myaesi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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71. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/1856702445100000950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/1856702445100000950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-professional-development-programs.html' title='Two Professional development programs in and after AeSI'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-8713370174873247915</id><published>2009-07-30T08:01:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-12T14:10:49.747+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CAD"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="catia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Which software to use? Advise to AeSI aerospace students!</title><content type='html'>In my previous post, I highted 3 softwares that I will recommend to  &lt;br&gt;any propulsion (aerospace) engineer entering the industry. Though I  &lt;br&gt;mentioned three specific softwares but they are certainly not the only  &lt;br&gt;one used in the industry.&lt;p&gt;Those 3 were the softwares that I will take up if I were a fresh AeSI  &lt;br&gt;graduate today.&lt;p&gt;Every organisation uses many different softwares. Even CAD, CAE  &lt;br&gt;softwares vary from department to department. And these softwares also  &lt;br&gt;change with each year.&lt;p&gt;I have seen catia replacing unigraphics and again next year catia  &lt;br&gt;replaced by a brand new cad program in my department. So don&amp;#39;t fret  &lt;br&gt;about the softwares too much. They change like governments!&lt;p&gt;Start with whatever options that are available to you. But be  &lt;br&gt;consistent. Consistent in putting in your time, consistent in sitting  &lt;br&gt;with the software every day. Consistent in learning the tool.&lt;p&gt;Always remember, no matter what software you use, study or practise,  &lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s YOU who will matter ultimately in your design and analysis.  &lt;br&gt;Softwares are just the tools that enable you to weive the magic!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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Plan ahead.&lt;br&gt;The ebook saw the light because I had planned ahead. I broke the  &lt;br&gt;project into series of steps and I did try to do each one at a time.&lt;p&gt;For the ebook, the main tasks were gathering the material from the  &lt;br&gt;blog. Organising the material, formating, making PDFs and finally  &lt;br&gt;launcing.&lt;p&gt;This were the high level steps, which were furthur broken down to  &lt;br&gt;smaller tasks to get the work done.&lt;p&gt;2. Get maximum done in the intial push&lt;br&gt;This was perhaps the best thing I did for this ebook project.&lt;p&gt;Downloading some selected, related content from 750+ post of my-aesi!  &lt;br&gt;I utilized the initial enthusiasm for the ebook to acomplish this  &lt;br&gt;tasks within days of setting the goal to finish this project.&lt;p&gt;Since I have limited time and limited access to net, so this motivated  &lt;br&gt;me to push through and I did the first two tasks of getting the  &lt;br&gt;content and organising them fairly quick.&lt;p&gt;3. Keep off topic when stuck&lt;br&gt;After the initial two tasks, came the formating and this gave me  &lt;br&gt;headaches. Literally I never thought formating will be so difficult.&lt;p&gt;I have written countless documents for office but never had any  &lt;br&gt;formatting issue but this was not the case with this ebook.&lt;p&gt;I was stuck and it is at this stage of the ebook, I had doubts and I  &lt;br&gt;wanted to scrap the whole project.&lt;p&gt;Here I just let go off the project and let it lay down low in my daily  &lt;br&gt;tasks. I thought of ways to format and tried different formating  &lt;br&gt;styles in word but never touched the ebook. I was incubating ideas. I  &lt;br&gt;was waiting for inspiration. And I didn&amp;#39;t wait in vain. Eventually I  &lt;br&gt;did felt like picking the ebook and went with the first formating that  &lt;br&gt;came to my mind.&lt;p&gt;Well it was not perfect but I tweaked and tweaked and got something I  &lt;br&gt;liked.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;4. Formating is the not trivial&lt;br&gt;As I found formating is not trivial. This was the greatest lesson for  &lt;br&gt;me. Yes I have authored many reports and document but there was none  &lt;br&gt;that big and as wordy as this project. The reports at office had  &lt;br&gt;tables and graphs and some text sandwiched. But in this ebook text was  &lt;br&gt;the bread. So had to learn few formating tricks!!&lt;p&gt;5. Chip in daily.&lt;br&gt;In the initial stage, enthusiasm of a big project sailed me through  &lt;br&gt;two of the major tasks. But as I moved to next stage, the enthusiasm  &lt;br&gt;eroded. The engine stopped.&lt;p&gt;This is were self discipline came handy. I had set an hour a day for  &lt;br&gt;this project and even when I didn&amp;#39;t feel like I have any desire to  &lt;br&gt;work on this project, I chipped on.&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#39;t feel like taking up the ebook, but I began tinkering with the  &lt;br&gt;formating with some dummy reports. I began researching on the tools to  &lt;br&gt;convert doc to pdf.&lt;p&gt;So even when I didn&amp;#39;t do anything directly for the project, indirectly  &lt;br&gt;I kept chipping. This not only help me save the project but made me  &lt;br&gt;more confident in word and showed me numerous ways to convert word  &lt;br&gt;documents to PDFs.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;This were the lessons I have learnt in writing this ebook. I hope you  &lt;br&gt;will pick up something from this experience.&lt;p&gt;I am at the final stage of launching the ebook. Do bear with me some  &lt;br&gt;more. Hope you will like the ebook and find it useful.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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81. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/5708032469023725774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/5708032469023725774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/07/5-lesson-learnt-from-writing-ebook.html' title='5 lesson learnt from writing the ebook.'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-7083997621218701948</id><published>2009-06-26T14:19:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-12T14:09:03.044+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Learn A software  as if it&#39;s 20-20</title><content type='html'>A collegue of mine was recently telling me how they learnt and had the  &lt;br&gt;matlab experience. He was in iit chennai. There one professor, one day  &lt;br&gt;came and said he will give them one test problem and they have one  &lt;br&gt;week&amp;#39;s time and all of them have to solve it by using matlab.&lt;p&gt;Now before that no one had any exposure to that software, they have  &lt;br&gt;never seen it and all of a sudden they have this assignments which  &lt;br&gt;required them to program in matlab to plot the graphs and it was the  &lt;br&gt;only mandatory criteria for the exam. So what do you thing happened?&lt;p&gt;The whole class geared up and did a quick crash course on the software  &lt;br&gt;by the end of the timeline and everyone had the results ready. From  &lt;br&gt;the professors side there was no restriction for them, they can use  &lt;br&gt;internet or books if they want, all he wanted was the matlab code and  &lt;br&gt;the results. He got all. For the students the challenge provoked them  &lt;br&gt;to learn the software in quick time. Yes they didn&amp;#39;t learn it fully  &lt;br&gt;but they got to learnt it so that, if they are asked to do it again  &lt;br&gt;they will be able to produce a result from matlab.&lt;p&gt;What are the lessons we can learn from this?&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#39;t bitch around for lack of tutors for a software, even in iit&amp;#39;s  &lt;br&gt;it&amp;#39;s your initiative that helps you learn, tools come from the  &lt;br&gt;institution but it&amp;#39;s the students who have to roll the ball. So accept  &lt;br&gt;the opportunities of learning a tool as you get them, don&amp;#39;t wait fir a  &lt;br&gt;teacher or a ready made tutorial!!&lt;p&gt;This time limit propelled the students to cut the crap and get down to  &lt;br&gt;the core of the software. Since they had results to deliver they  &lt;br&gt;played like 20 20 instead of a test match. So whenever you are  &lt;br&gt;learning a new software tool, Remember 20 20!&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s the fasted way to learn.Concentrate on scoring on each bowl.&lt;p&gt;For my collegue, as he mentioned, that experience was just the brush  &lt;br&gt;with matlab that he had, but for some, this little exercise stuck and  &lt;br&gt;they went deep into the software to learn to use it more effectively.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;So next time you are planning to learn something new, make it a 20-20  &lt;br&gt;rather than a test match!!! Good luck.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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86. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/7083997621218701948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/7083997621218701948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/06/learn-software-as-if-its-20-20.html' title='Learn A software  as if it&#39;s 20-20'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-6527581340461790536</id><published>2009-06-13T06:55:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-12T14:10:49.754+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CAD"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="catia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Catia and solidwork</title><content type='html'>These are two cad software that i have extensivled covered in this  &lt;br&gt;blog.  I became aware of them only when I was in my last semester of  &lt;br&gt;aesi and only saw solidworks for the first time when I joined NAL and  &lt;br&gt;actually used catia 6 months latter.&lt;p&gt;I have worked with solidworks to design and cad model India&amp;#39;s first  &lt;br&gt;mixed flow compresor!&lt;p&gt;At present, I don&amp;#39;t use any of this software. And I am doing fine in  &lt;br&gt;life, in my career. So what the point in all this&lt;p&gt;The point is do whatever software that comes your way, because  &lt;br&gt;ultimately many more software will flow in to your life. It doesn&amp;#39;t  &lt;br&gt;matter what software you get in training or what project you work on.  &lt;br&gt;The point of software is they are just tools to an end. They are good  &lt;br&gt;to have but they only work when you can apply them.&lt;p&gt;So whatever you are doing don&amp;#39;t be bothered about these tools, there  &lt;br&gt;are many and you don&amp;#39;t have to learn all of them. Just carry on the  &lt;br&gt;ones you enjoy and work on.&lt;p&gt;In the end it&amp;#39;s your knowledge, wisdom and judgement that will matter  &lt;br&gt;not the tools.&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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91. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/6527581340461790536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/6527581340461790536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/06/catia-and-solidwork.html' title='Catia and solidwork'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-3299280330133823755</id><published>2009-04-22T03:15:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-11-12T14:10:49.765+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="CAD"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="catia"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="excel"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="skills"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>4 function key excel shortcuts that help me in my work</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Whatever you use, be it &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search/label/catia&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;catia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=solidworks&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;solidworks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=UG&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;UG&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search/label/nastran&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NASTRAN&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search/label/ansys&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ANSYS&lt;/a&gt; ,PATRAN, HYPERMESH or any other CAE software, excel is one of the software tool that always be the one that will be come to you. Maybe for preparing some graphs or presenting the data from the analysis. For my work excel is tool that i use everyday ion my office. so today i would like to share some of 4 function key shortcuts of excel that has made my life easy.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F2&lt;/strong&gt; the second most used key for me&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; If you want to edit a cell value. This is the key to use. Instead of double clicking F2 comes handy to edit those long formulae&#39;s.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F7&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;#160; spell checker. My spellings are bad, even in spread sheet I manage to get many spelling mistakes, so one click on F7 I the best that I can get.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F4&lt;/strong&gt; is the most versatile function key of excel. I use it the most. It repeats your last action. So this can be used for many task. Since there no fix action. so its programmable to use any action. If I have to delete a row. repeatedly. I select the row and then right click on it and choose delete. after than any row I want to delete I just choose that row and press F4. similarly if I have to clear lot of stuff from one sheet. I use the F4 key instead of right click and choosing clear contents multiple times.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;F11&lt;/strong&gt;. Most of the time my work in excel involves making graphs of the data and f11 comes to the rescue. just select the data and press F11. You will have the default graph plotted. Since I want a particular type of graph so I always make a default graph and use it every time I need a graph.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Do you have any shortcut keys then please do share it with me.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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101. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/7201299595483169682'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/7201299595483169682'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-found-free-magazines.html' title='Have you found Free magazines?'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-2445807659331206348</id><published>2009-04-14T03:17:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-04-14T03:17:00.455+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="skills"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Experiments and tutorials</title><content type='html'>There are two ways of learning. By experiments or by tutorials?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One involves reading everything about the subject and beinging to do the tutorials and the other approach is getting a basic idea and jump into an experiments. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you might have realised i follow and vote for the experiment approach. It works for me. Without settling down on theories. I get the basics of what can get me started and jump into the tool to conduct my own experiments. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the new fem software that i was introduced, i got so many supporting documents. If i had read them line by line and everything, not only would i have made the progress that i have made so far but also would have stuck somewhere because of the jargon. So mine technique was read or browse quickly. Get the basic idea of the steps involved and then begin your own experiments. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the fem software, i began by modelling a 2d plate, meshning it, applying force and getting the cool coloured contour profile.  Learning and experimenting with one feature at a time. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you find yourself not making progress in your own tool learning, then try experiments. The cool thing about experiments is they always teach you. Even if they fail, they give you insight of the process. So experiment!&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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106. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/2445807659331206348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/2445807659331206348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/04/experiments-and-tutorials.html' title='Experiments and tutorials'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-6549150152343544849</id><published>2009-03-07T06:06:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-03-07T06:06:00.561+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amaesi"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="study material"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="study tips"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="training"/><title type='text'>If you aren’t facing Challenges you are not Learning</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Its true if you aren’t facing a problem you aren’t learning.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You are busy learning the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search/label/catia&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;catia&lt;/a&gt; software, you are going smoothly in all your tutorials. But as you progress through your tutorials do you feel “am I learning something new, am I growing. Am I facing a problem that I wanted to solve.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you are not hindered by a problem you aren&#39;t growing. Solving a problem, is the best way to grow and learn. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have always said that &lt;strong&gt;real learning only comes when you are working on a real time projects and are facing the day to day real challenges&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My CAD learning accelerated when I was assigned on a real life project of CAD modeling of mixed flow compressor. Previously I was learning the &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=solidworks&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;solidworks&lt;/a&gt; software with tutorials in my spare time, but the real lessons I learnt came when I faces some real problem working on modeling that compressor. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The constraints of the projects presents you to try out new things. &lt;/strong&gt;So always challenge yourself. Always strike to work on a problem. This is the only way you will truly learn a tool or a subject.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If your boss or mentor in your &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=training+after+aesi&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;training&lt;/a&gt; period is not giving you any challenging and interesting work. Give yourself interesting assignments, put restrictions and work on something that do have real value for you you or others.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Do the tutorials but make them hard. Put your own constraint. The barriers you put might be of time based or resource based. This will help you grow.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Time constraint is the easy one. You can say you will complete a certain job in 10 minutes. The resource based constraint can be that in your next modeling project you will not use the toolbars shortcuts at all. Or you can say that you will do the next modeling of the FEA model by scripting. You can put a restriction that in your next tutorial you will not touch the mouse.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So by limiting the time or putting restriction on the tools that you can use you can challenge yourself to solve the problems. This will only help you grow.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Try it. It really works. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Related:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/02/questions-on-aesi-training.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questions On AeSI training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/02/aesi-training-11-questions-to-ask.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AeSI Training: 11 questions to ask yourself before deciding on training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2008/10/useful-tip-that-accelerated-my-design.html&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Useful Tip that accelerated my CAE tool learning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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111. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/6549150152343544849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/6549150152343544849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/03/if-you-arent-facing-challenges-you-are.html' title='If you aren’t facing Challenges you are not Learning'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-5608893328285525746</id><published>2009-02-24T07:50:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-24T08:55:43.309+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="advice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>The Impact Comes From The Craftsman,</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Just like every powerful tool, the impact comes from the craftsman, not the tool. -Seth Godin&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Just &lt;a href=&quot;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/sethsmainblog/~3/XeXsaad-EB0/is-marketing-evil.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;read&amp;#160; this blog entry&lt;/a&gt; from marketing guru Seth Godin and loved this line. and its very true. True for all the things that I advocate in this blog. &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search/label/catia&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Catia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=solidworks&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Solidworks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search/label/ansys&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ansys&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search/label/nastran&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nastran&lt;/a&gt;, Unigraphics, Hypermesh, Fluent, ICEM, Isight, Gambit,Patran etc are powerful tools but that power doesn&#39;t come by itself, it comes from the users who uses it. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_ViJKBVHeG3U/SaNolHEhQcI/AAAAAAAAH_c/yWQl8MZzAgw/s1600-h/tools-don%27t-make-the-impact%5B3%5D.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;tools-don&amp;#39;t-make-the-impact&quot; style=&quot;border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px&quot; height=&quot;112&quot; alt=&quot;tools-don&amp;#39;t-make-the-impact&quot; src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_ViJKBVHeG3U/SaNoslbgGiI/AAAAAAAAH_g/DTB6gNBp0mk/tools-don%27t-make-the-impact_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;133&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Its not the tools that create great things, its the application by the &amp;quot;craftsman&amp;quot; who makes wonders with them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Always remember this when you are playing and handling your tools. You are the driver and where the vehicle will go is always in your hand and how skilful you are in it.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Same can be said for the slumdog film, there was nothing spectacular in the script, simple characters, simple scenes but the directors use of scene, screen play and&amp;#160; treatment made all the difference.... The camera, the technicians and the locations were all same that you will find in any Ram Gopal Verma&#39;s film, only thing that made slumdog great was its application.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So whenever you are looking at your tools, go forward with this attitude. You will surely win your Oscar!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;related:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/01/building-better-aerospace-engineer.html&quot;&gt;Building a better Aerospace Engineer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-i-learnt-ansys-nastran-or.html&quot;&gt;How I learnt ANSYS, NASTRAN or Solidworks?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2008/06/6-things-you-should-begin-doing-in-your.html&quot;&gt;6 things you should begin doing in your last semester of AeSI.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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121. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/6987528481196446720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9184576/posts/default/6987528481196446720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/02/some-tips-to-learn-from-tutorials.html' title='Some Tips to learn from Tutorials'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9184576.post-3719518283876254056</id><published>2009-02-05T06:30:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2009-02-05T06:30:00.928+05:30</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="advice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tools"/><title type='text'>Ready Fire Aim</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff8040&quot;&gt;Ready Fire Aim&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; !!!!!!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I like this approach and have used it in many of my learning projects. This is way I work on them and this is the way things have worked for me &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The other way is &lt;strong&gt;ready aim and fire&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;#160; so you see except the ready being common nothing is common.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The ready is getting the gun, holding it properly. In case of learning a tool it is installing the tool, knowing how to use it, knowing the basic functions of it. Figuring out how to begin is the ready stage. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Majority of us do this stage nicely and then for the aimers they get stuck, getting there aim right. Some do it to a greater degree and some to a lesser degree. Then like in new software tool they wait for inspiration to come to create something useful, they wait to write the perfect useful program, they wait to mesh a great complicated model. Or they wait to create that perfect CAD model.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you follow the same ready aim pattern, then you are likely that you will be getting stuck at the aiming part. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is where I deviate my path.&lt;strong&gt; I fire. I dive into the tool. I get the tool and begin creating stuff with it, yes the stuff are not world class but still its not a blank screen,&lt;/strong&gt; The first time I tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/search?q=solidworks&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;solidworks&lt;/a&gt;, I didn’t draw a compressor model, I began with a cube, Yes a cube!! Then a glass and so on.. For solidworks I began with drawing a glass, then to cups and so forth, Then as I got stuck, I referred back to any manual that I had and this is where aim came into the picture.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So try the ready fire aim approach. &lt;strong&gt;Get ready, then fire and then adjust.&lt;/strong&gt; Reading all about the tool and starting it is much better than waiting for inspiration, waiting for some how to tutorials… so FIRE!!! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Grab &lt;a href=&quot;http://my-aesi.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-aesi-career-guide-after-aesi.html&quot;&gt; &quot;After-AeSI Career guide to AeSI&quot; &lt;/a&gt; ebook free
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