Re: DeltaCad has been discontinued

2023-05-07 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- I would offer for consideration several options that

Re: A mis-aligned vertical dial

2021-11-09 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Although the original question referred to a

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2017-01-28 Thread illustratingshadows--- via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Jack thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. Simon 

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2016-01-31 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
--- Begin Message --- I started programming some 50 years ago (ALGOL on the Elliot 803, then Autocoder on the IBM 1401, then BAL on the IBM 360, 370, etc and more).  Anyway, someone pointed out a bug in my master spreadsheet, for which I am thankful. The "illustratingShadows.xls" spreadsheet

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2016-01-06 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
--- Begin Message --- Test from Simon W-S Sorry group, I am just trying to resolve my email being an attachment. Thanks for your patience. Simon Simon Wheaton-Smith http://www.illustratingshadows.com/ Phoenix, Arizona, W112.1 N33.5 From: "steve-ir...@cox.net" To:

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2016-01-05 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
--- Begin Message ---  Frank your message showed up. I never see my posts, and worse still, if I reply from my cel phone then they do seem to appear but as an attachment. And I do not blame people for not opening attachments. Simon Wheaton-Smith www.illustratingshadows.com Phoenix, Arizona,

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2015-11-15 Thread illustratingshadows via sundial
--- Begin Message --- a gnonom measures the hour angle of the sun around the earth north south polar axis. so it is set at latitude. you are correct.the gnomon is parallel to the earth at the equator, and that is a polar dial, called so because the dial.plate parallels the polar north south

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2015-09-24 Thread illustratingshadows via sundial
--- Begin Message --- as a student of world war II methods of navigation, what about "pressure pattern navigation". A fixed heading gets you there even if you wander all over the sky. Just thought I would confuse the issue. Simon www.illustratingshadows.comPhoenix, AZ Sent via the

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2015-06-25 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
---BeginMessage--- Some initial questions might be what was the design latitudewhat was the design longitudeis the dial plate actually correct (hour line angles, style angular height) assuming the dial itself is accurate for a specific latitude, then you may decide the dial should be tilted

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2015-04-03 Thread illustratingshadows via sundial
---BeginMessage--- my website has the appendices to my book for free, and they are 180 pages. Also he supplemental material us for free. Together you should get the inclined decliner formulae info uou seek. Of course, my main book has two chapters on the inclined decliner, one covers shallow

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2015-02-23 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
---BeginMessage--- I built a ceiling dial with the mirror on the inside, rigidly attached. Some relevant factors I considered were mirror stability, and of course latitude. At my latitude the sun is rather high in the summer and a roof overhang can aggravate that situation. The biggest problem

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2014-12-04 Thread Simon [illustratingshadows via sundial
---BeginMessage--- ooops  ~ the pictures I attached were for the dial without longitude correction, sorry. Not relevant to the issue at hand, namely the key point was the use of the .STL file type and suffix. US printer prices are similar to those in Australia I think, I imagine other printer

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2014-11-14 Thread illustratingshadows via sundial
---BeginMessage--- what operating system and release level? deltacad and windows 8.1 remembers the last macro folder, but not in windows 8 at least that is what I experienced. simon  Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha™, an ATT 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Donald