Moose's Software Valley - Overhead Cable Sag Calculator - Training Videos
Overhead Cable Sag Calculator - Training Videos
by Moose O'Malley, v1.02 - 8-Jun-2021
Notes:
These videos are only for use by Registered Users of Overhead Cable Sag Calculator.
Special thanks to people who purchased
the "Sag Calculator + Training Videos" package.
Training Video #1: Sag v3.x Installation Walkthrough
See your Registration Confirmation email for further details, links.
This video takes you through all of the steps necessary to install Sag Calculator v3.x:
** Step 1 of 4: Download ZIP file.
See your Registration Confirmation email for details, links.
** Step 2 of 4: Extract the contents of the ZIP file.
Run installer EXE as "administrator"
** Step 3 of 4 (Updated): Windows Vista or later users (Windows 7, 8, 10, etc) need to download Windows Help support (WinHelp.exe or WinHlp32.exe) using either of these download links:
Unzip the contents of the ZIP file to a temporary directory. e.g. c:\temp\
Right click on "Install.cmd" and select "Run as Administrator". A command window will open and WinHLP will be installed, and you will see a bunch of messages ending with: "The operation completed successfully."
** Step 4 of 4: Run Sag Calculator as "administrator" and
enter Registration codes provided.
Training Video #2: Sag v3.x The Basics
This video explores the basics of using Sag Calculator v3.x.
Form sizing and scaling
Help file
Help = context sensitive
Setup button
Sag-Spans Details tab
Cable Sag Details tab
"Preserve" button
"Delete" Button
Check / Sag
Save button
Open button
Calc button
Report button
Exit button
Training Video #3: Sag v3.x Advanced Topics
This video explores the advanced topics of using Sag Calculator v3.x.
Reset button
Menus - button functionality + extra features
File -> New menu
File -> Save As menu
File -> Load Settings from Another Project menu
File -> Delete Project(s) menu
File -> Restore Factory Defaults menu
File -> Always on Top menu
Help -> About
Video #4: Sag Calculator 20th Anniversary
v1.0 of Sag Calculator was released on 1-Sep-2001, and here we are 20 years later. In this special 20th anniversary video I discuss:
Restrospective: how did the Sag Calculator project begin, how did sales go in the early days,
Where are we now ?
The Future ... v3.7 ?, v4.0 ?, iPad ?, Android Tablet ?, Mac OS ?, Linux ?
Video #5: Sag Calculator 20th Anniversary - BLOOPERS
And here are the BLOOPERS I made when making the Sag Calculator 20th Anniversary video.
Normally I just delete these BLOOPERS, but today I thought it might be fun to keep them and make an extra video of them.
Downloading the Training Videos to your Computer:
There are many ways to download videos from YouTube.
For example, in FireFox there are add-ons like "ANT Video Downloader", "Easy YouTube Video Downloader",
and "Flash Video Downloader", but there are plenty of other add-ons that do this as well.
(In FireFox: Tools -> Add-ons and in the search box at the top right, type
YouTube download and a bunch of add-ons will be listed, such as those mentioned earlier, etc -
install whatever add-on you like and read the instructions for using it).
Once installed, restart your web browser. These tools usually add a drop-down box below
the video in YouTube and you can use this to select the type of video
(high def, low def, etc) you want to download.
My preferred way to download YouTube videos is to use YouTube-DL (a free, open source, command line tool):
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl
and you can run commands like this (at the command prompt / terminal prompt) to download my videos:
For watching the videos on your PC, Mac, iPad, Android, Linux, etc, I highly recommend
VideoLan VLC Media Player (freeware):
http://www.videolan.org/
Hope this helps !
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