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Sometimes your license will let you access a whole suite of tools. I've even done patent drawings with SW.
Take Care,
Cliff
Statistics: Posted by cliffbeaty — Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:12 pm
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I might run double duplex on the HDD, and have a total of 1.4 TeraBytes running in duplex tandem.
so four 750 gig drives, running in pairs of duplex. reduces the failure rate possibility.
AlaskaStar
Statistics: Posted by AlaskaStar — Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:59 pm
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Alaska Star,
Have you ever used SolidWorks, it is a complete solid modeling program which can open as well as edit DWG files. I have never used Autocad since learning SolidWorks. It can be found on various P2P sites online.
Cliff
Statistics: Posted by cliffbeaty — Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:30 pm
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Imagine if they could make these machines do the same thing with food.
It's all a bit Star Trekky - Replicator style.
Makes you wonder whether the people who wrote star trek know something we don't, or whether the people who invent this stuff take their ideas from science fiction.
One Racktacino coming right up.
Statistics: Posted by biggeorge — Tue May 29, 2007 11:32 pm
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food for thought...
AlaskaStar
Statistics: Posted by AlaskaStar — Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:10 pm
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The IMAX projector box.
They use water cooled Xenon lamps, inside a perfectly fabricated parabolic chamber. The best for this application as the lighting system has already been through extensive testing. All that's required is to replace the projection lense with a larger convex, then a smaller concave to extend the focal point.
The xenon bulbs are VERY powerful, I'm estimating that they are just powerful enough to work with harder metals like copper and brass powder. Possibly even steel alloys.. but that could be just beyond the threshold.
Their about $700 per lamp at the time of this writing, which is expensive.. but try buying an equally powerful Co2 laser for that price would ya?
Now.. I just need to find a place to buy Imax parabolas... and their equiv. xenon lamps...
Statistics: Posted by Cryptonic26 — Tue Feb 14, 2006 5:17 pm
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In many ways the internet is more, and in many ways its less.
I used to enjoy browsing, because you never knew what you were going to get.. now you know that you're going to find at least %20 broken links, %30 advertisment, an array of sites trying to give you a virus, and lots of porn.
Something needs to be done to clean up the www, or its going to become little more than the old town junkyard that has all kinds of great stuff, but noone ever want to go there because its too messy and unorganized.
Statistics: Posted by Cryptonic26 — Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:23 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Cryptonic26 — Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:18 pm
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where do i get one???
i musta missed that one, because i was one of the FEW in my area who was "online" back in 1995, and have been online since.
i watched the internet go from being an endless fountain of knowledge to a fountain of knowledge that you had to keep feeding $20 bills to get to the information, it also became an advertisement, and a big sales pitch for everything from 1 to Z, and beyond.
but anyway i have never encountered one of these VRML/ VLR sites, and it would be a neat way to load up cad drawings for people to look at.
AlaskaStar
Statistics: Posted by AlaskaStar — Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:06 pm
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It was around about 7 years ago, then it just dissapeared into the hype machine. as far as I know it's still supported on IE as a standard plugin.. I may be mistaken, I havnt tried it in years.
Anyhow, the way it worked then was fairly straight forward. many 3d programs allow you to export vrml files (wrl I think it was) and you could load that just like a web page. the web browser would then display the model geometry, and you get a basic exploration tool bar which you can use to rotate and zoom the camera. You could also take the time to program in various interactive elements into the world file if you wanted, but it was great as-is for general display of models.
It has been a while though, so there may be a better 3d web plugin for that now.
Just wanted to point that out in case you had some stuff to share with us ;)
Statistics: Posted by Cryptonic26 — Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:06 am
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the AutoCAD R14 is easy to use, and even more precise using the text command line. the mouse features in my opinion only slow me down, but then again running any Microsoft operating system with ONLY the keyboard, this drives spectators nuts, because the mouse doesn't move, and yet everything else is! so i guess the mouse has to swallow the cat in this world...
the possibilites are ENDLESS. say for example with this 3-d printer...i wanted to show you something that was next to IMPOSSIBLE to describe verbally...i could just simply e-mail you the model, and it would then be SO MUCH easier to figure out. teaching elements would be so much easier too! i could show examples that everybody could possibly hold in their hand and see. and so could everybody else. this could take technology to WAY PAST the next level of speed of thought.
if you want to e-mail me, and it is your first e-mail to me, please put OUPOWER in the subject line.
my address is :
AlaskaStar2000 (AT) Hotmail (DOT) com
fix it to make it work...
thanks!
AlaskaStar
Statistics: Posted by AlaskaStar — Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:18 am
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If you know machine shop, then 3ds is possibly the closest match of the 'popular' softwares. Its quite expensive however.
There are lots of softwares out there that are better suited for mechanical design, 3ds and maya (the ones you'll hear most about) are designed towards artistic modeling and animation, which is really not what you need for this kind of printer.
A program called Rhino is really good for this kind of stuff, in fact it comes with an exporter that can print directly to a stereolithography machine. Its made for commercial product design and archetecture.
Other than that, there are a few that I know of, such as the cad software that you can pick up at an office depot or the like. Seems to be suitable software for general use.
It all comes down to finding the software you're most comfortable with, and taking the time to learn it. You can get free demos for almost all of these softwares from their respective websites if you need to figure out which you like best.
Statistics: Posted by Cryptonic26 — Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:16 am
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