Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:16 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:14:12 pm Kyle Kerr did opine: Another option to look at/fool around with is Google sketchup. I am having no troubles running it in wine. There is even a plugin to output gcode called phlatboyz. Kyle That must be in a newer version than the last one I had installed, about a year ago, but its undo didn't, and I got tired of filling up my hard drive with workaround saves. Has that been addressed? Thanks Kyle. From what little experience I have had with it, everything seems to function, but, it can be unstable at times. It saves regularly, so, when you restart the program you are pretty much back to where you were when it crashed. The instability is not limited to an issue with running in wine either. I hope that helps with your choice. Kyle -- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:12 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:07:57 pm andy pugh did opine: On 1 March 2011 20:19, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in, Does Heekscad do 2D drawing? I am only really familiar with Alibre and Autodesk Inventor, but with those once you have the 3D model, you then go to a separate part of the software where you create 2D manufacturing drawings (potentially auto-dimensioned) Not sure, 2.5D maybe, I was making cubes viewed headon so they were rectangles. But I was disappointed when I tried to print what I had built and got a blank sheet of paper instead. But I believe its full 3d for the wire frames, you can wave them around in 3d space and see it all, like Lightwave on the amiga was 15 years ago. Another option to look at/fool around with is Google sketchup. I am having no troubles running it in wine. There is even a plugin to output gcode called phlatboyz. Kyle -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:14:12 pm Kyle Kerr did opine: On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:12 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:07:57 pm andy pugh did opine: On 1 March 2011 20:19, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in, Does Heekscad do 2D drawing? I am only really familiar with Alibre and Autodesk Inventor, but with those once you have the 3D model, you then go to a separate part of the software where you create 2D manufacturing drawings (potentially auto-dimensioned) Not sure, 2.5D maybe, I was making cubes viewed headon so they were rectangles. �But I was disappointed when I tried to print what I had built and got a blank sheet of paper instead. �But I believe its full 3d for the wire frames, you can wave them around in 3d space and see it all, like Lightwave on the amiga was 15 years ago. Another option to look at/fool around with is Google sketchup. I am having no troubles running it in wine. There is even a plugin to output gcode called phlatboyz. Kyle That must be in a newer version than the last one I had installed, about a year ago, but its undo didn't, and I got tired of filling up my hard drive with workaround saves. Has that been addressed? Thanks Kyle. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug. -- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
[Emc-users] Heekscad question
Greetings everybody; Fooling around (I think thats what some folks would call it :) with heekscad, I have some solids laid out as if I'm looking down at the top of a piece of furnitures corner post, depicting how the tenons are going to meet inside the leg. 3 questions for those more fam with heekscad than I obviously am. 1) How can I switch on a dimension mark that looks like this: |---1.45---| 2) And, force the dimension figure printed to be some arbitrary scale, like 8 squares of the background grid = 1.00 What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in, if I can... 3) print the result, I'm getting instant feeds of blank paper. Am I missing a paid plugin or ??? I can of course take a snapshot of the screen and presumably print that, but sheesh, that seems like the hard way, and I may as well just plot the thing on 10x10 graph paper. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz If money can't buy happiness, I guess you'll just have to rent it. -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:19 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings everybody; Fooling around (I think thats what some folks would call it :) with heekscad, I have some solids laid out as if I'm looking down at the top of a piece of furnitures corner post, depicting how the tenons are going to meet inside the leg. 3 questions for those more fam with heekscad than I obviously am. 1) How can I switch on a dimension mark that looks like this: |---1.45---| 2) And, force the dimension figure printed to be some arbitrary scale, like 8 squares of the background grid = 1.00 What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in, if I can... 3) print the result, I'm getting instant feeds of blank paper. Don't know about heekscad, but for 2D drawing that you might use for an assembly, I'd use another free CAD program, Qcad. In Qcad you draw the dimension like any other feature on the drawing, anchoring the first and second point to the part features, and placing the label in freehand mode. I like to put dimensions in their own separate drawing layer. As to the scale, it's a general property of the particular drawing, together with the measurement units, and the output format of the dimension numbers -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question
On 1 March 2011 20:19, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in, Does Heekscad do 2D drawing? I am only really familiar with Alibre and Autodesk Inventor, but with those once you have the 3D model, you then go to a separate part of the software where you create 2D manufacturing drawings (potentially auto-dimensioned) -- atp Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question
On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 09:42:07 pm Przemek Klosowski did opine: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:19 PM, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Greetings everybody; Fooling around (I think thats what some folks would call it :) with heekscad, I have some solids laid out as if I'm looking down at the top of a piece of furnitures corner post, depicting how the tenons are going to meet inside the leg. 3 questions for those more fam with heekscad than I obviously am. 1) How can I switch on a dimension mark that looks like this: |---1.45---| 2) And, force the dimension figure printed to be some arbitrary scale, like 8 squares of the background grid = 1.00 What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in, if I can... 3) print the result, I'm getting instant feeds of blank paper. Don't know about heekscad, but for 2D drawing that you might use for an assembly, I'd use another free CAD program, Qcad. In Qcad you draw the dimension like any other feature on the drawing, anchoring the first and second point to the part features, and placing the label in freehand mode. I like to put dimensions in their own separate drawing layer. As to the scale, it's a general property of the particular drawing, together with the measurement units, and the output format of the dimension numbers I wound up doing it more or less by the grid, without adding any dimensions, then ksnapshoted the screen and printed that, which I penciled in some dimensions, enough to mill 8 mortises in 2 legs get one side frame cut and test assembled. But that taught me 2 things, one, don't believe the chisel width as stated on the package, a 3/8 wide Stanley turned out to be about .435 wide! Where I was raised, 3/8=.375, when did that change? About 4 hours trying to trim it precisely but no way to grab that tapered shank in my milling vice so I had to grind and hone. PIMA Two, change the blade on my table saw, its an ATB, and I found an ATBF wearing a CMT label that will go on it before I try to cut another tenon. Next time I'll try Qcad, but I hope its UI has improved since the last time I needed a whole bottle of naproxin sodium by the time I'd restarted it 6 or 7 times never did get anything worth printing. That was maybe 2 years back up the log, so hopefully its more stable now. I just ran it for about 10 minutes, trying to get the feel and it didn't crash or freeze, so there may be hope. Thank you Przemek. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz I'm RELIGIOUS!! I love a man with a HAIRPIECE!! Equip me with MISSILES!! -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
Re: [Emc-users] Heekscad question
On Wednesday, March 02, 2011 10:07:57 pm andy pugh did opine: On 1 March 2011 20:19, gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: What I want is to mark all the dimensions on the printout so I don't have to pencil them in, Does Heekscad do 2D drawing? I am only really familiar with Alibre and Autodesk Inventor, but with those once you have the 3D model, you then go to a separate part of the software where you create 2D manufacturing drawings (potentially auto-dimensioned) Not sure, 2.5D maybe, I was making cubes viewed headon so they were rectangles. But I was disappointed when I tried to print what I had built and got a blank sheet of paper instead. But I believe its full 3d for the wire frames, you can wave them around in 3d space and see it all, like Lightwave on the amiga was 15 years ago. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz * JHM wonders what Joey did to earn I'd just like to say, for the record, that Joey rules. -- Seen on #Debian -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
