The situation:
I am having some questions with VituixCAD. It is a magnificent software but the the more complex the software and the more complex and new (for user) task is - the more questions arise. The author is very cool dude and he made not only the software free for diy, but also pretty solid documentation, even with videos, examples, use with other software and so on.
I try to search the forum about (VituixCAD) some minor thing, or lets say some tool inside the software - Merger tool, I search "VituixCAD merger" and I am pretty much in luck, there is a somewhat related discussion - https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/vituixcad.307910/page-226#post-7786166 it does not answers the exact question, but at least it matches keyword. I am more out of luck when searching about other questions: Diffraction, IR-FR, Preference rating etc etc. Overall there are 230 and counting pages of discussion about it with all the separate sub-tools, all the scientific and pseudo-scientific "discoveries", saying thank you for the author, very very high level discussion, and simple "VituixCAD does not start on my machine". Everything is just a big mess. It turns into a daunting exercise for the software maintainer to answer all the repeating questions, all the honest but boring thank-you's and so on. There are additional problems for non-english native speakers where our minds are not understood correctly, meaning lost in translation or just poor grammar makes search 200+ pages thread a huge headache.
Why not make a sub-forum for it? Then we can make some sticky FAQ posts for 5-10 most popular questions, instructions and so on. There will be more room to breathe for the author, he could chime in only on complex questions, more basic stuff could be solved between simple mortals...
The same could be said about REW, Hornresp. Maybe also about WinISD, Xsim and some others. My apologies, if I forgot to mention some.
The rule-of-thumb and "2nd order crossover online calculator" era in speaker design is long gone, those software tools are like mandatory extensions of hands and brain pretty much in every task.
I think my suggestion makes the community more good than harm.
EDIT: Btw, I am not pushing the authors of the software to make it "official" support channel, it is just for us all to make classification little bit easier. Imagine this forum as a library - there has to be some order in it. Big pile of books about everything will not add much to the overall knowledge or its users...
I am having some questions with VituixCAD. It is a magnificent software but the the more complex the software and the more complex and new (for user) task is - the more questions arise. The author is very cool dude and he made not only the software free for diy, but also pretty solid documentation, even with videos, examples, use with other software and so on.
I try to search the forum about (VituixCAD) some minor thing, or lets say some tool inside the software - Merger tool, I search "VituixCAD merger" and I am pretty much in luck, there is a somewhat related discussion - https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/vituixcad.307910/page-226#post-7786166 it does not answers the exact question, but at least it matches keyword. I am more out of luck when searching about other questions: Diffraction, IR-FR, Preference rating etc etc. Overall there are 230 and counting pages of discussion about it with all the separate sub-tools, all the scientific and pseudo-scientific "discoveries", saying thank you for the author, very very high level discussion, and simple "VituixCAD does not start on my machine". Everything is just a big mess. It turns into a daunting exercise for the software maintainer to answer all the repeating questions, all the honest but boring thank-you's and so on. There are additional problems for non-english native speakers where our minds are not understood correctly, meaning lost in translation or just poor grammar makes search 200+ pages thread a huge headache.
Why not make a sub-forum for it? Then we can make some sticky FAQ posts for 5-10 most popular questions, instructions and so on. There will be more room to breathe for the author, he could chime in only on complex questions, more basic stuff could be solved between simple mortals...
The same could be said about REW, Hornresp. Maybe also about WinISD, Xsim and some others. My apologies, if I forgot to mention some.
The rule-of-thumb and "2nd order crossover online calculator" era in speaker design is long gone, those software tools are like mandatory extensions of hands and brain pretty much in every task.
I think my suggestion makes the community more good than harm.
EDIT: Btw, I am not pushing the authors of the software to make it "official" support channel, it is just for us all to make classification little bit easier. Imagine this forum as a library - there has to be some order in it. Big pile of books about everything will not add much to the overall knowledge or its users...
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Do not agree that search engine improvement will solve this exact problem. There is not a chance it will replicate google even to 10% of its capability, will require lots of human and computational resources, and there will be another sub-system for maintenance. When the topic is big enough - it deserves to have its own shelf.
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Search VituixCAD help for the word "forum" will direct you to the "official" locations for VituixCAD support, you may get better results posting your questions there.
For any forum, honestly less sub-forums is usually a better solution than more. With too many sub-forum choices, often people don't know the correct choice which leads to topics being located poorly and difficult to "browse" for specific topics of discussion. This forums is big and already with many confused categories. For example, should my question about a class-D chip go under chip-amps or class-D?
Stickies are also often problematic, often populated with outdated / incorrect / misleading information if not maintained up to date and creates biases of what methods / tools a certain forum supports and promotes. For example this forum has a sticky about designing speakers without measurement tools, but no stickies about designing speakers with measurement tools, what is really promoted here?
For any forum, honestly less sub-forums is usually a better solution than more. With too many sub-forum choices, often people don't know the correct choice which leads to topics being located poorly and difficult to "browse" for specific topics of discussion. This forums is big and already with many confused categories. For example, should my question about a class-D chip go under chip-amps or class-D?
Stickies are also often problematic, often populated with outdated / incorrect / misleading information if not maintained up to date and creates biases of what methods / tools a certain forum supports and promotes. For example this forum has a sticky about designing speakers without measurement tools, but no stickies about designing speakers with measurement tools, what is really promoted here?
Here is a sticky in Multi-Way that uses Vituixcad and measurements.
- https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...-design-your-own-speaker-from-scratch.332688/
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That's a bit of a stretch. "You could measure stuff" is certainly one possibility there, but also checks the "outdated" box heavily and bounces all over the map, I certainly won't direct anyone to that thread for guidance.
This is not related: I do not want all in one thread about everything. I already know 95% of what's there, and probably much much more about constructing wooden boxes. I want exactly the opposite: to get deeper into the 5% I am missing
Could you help with these? I cannot find any official ones. Google first option is VituixCAD thread. And I do not want to push it into making official - the whole idea is to get all the big enough threads: 200-1000 pages into separate sub-forums.
That is a very very good example: we are probably with your exact example at the mercy of the forum software! This is technical stuff: probably this could be a forum of "Amps" but marked with both tags "class-D" AND "chip-amps". But if the "Amps" forum gets big enough - we split it into the smaller pieces, like it is now. It is all about the split. Ability to sort info according to tags is another thing, not sure if Xenforo, which runs this site, has good implementation of it.
Again, sorry, my friend, with all due respect I do not agree about this one too... Stickies should be small enough, which can be atomized into small writeup about the info, which is/will be relevant long enough to leave it sticky: like the piece https://www.diyaudio.com/community/...-design-your-own-speaker-from-scratch.332688/ which has routing and woodworking - I do agree that the technology is changing at a relatively small pace in that industry. But I will never go back to using WinISD, or some more powerful, but still inferior custom software tools, because there are even better ones available. And, btw, I do not use Excel, do recommend to use as much as possible of MS stuff, and there is lots of luck involved into running Excel scripts on LibreOffice.
That whole thread is... how to say... too much all-in-one and some outdated parts get it all confusing pretty quickly.
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You can find the VituixCAD help and search it for the discussion forum links on your own, I have faith in you.
Google can be instructed to list search results from a single website. Use the following search query:
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word1 word2 ... site:diyaudio.com
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