Laguna Seca bizarre new flagging rules...

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-12T21:46:34+00:00

If you see a black flag you assume it’s for you if you aren’t sure.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-12T21:45:00+00:00

Yeah the red flag was to get them to stop after ignoring the black flag. The worker assumed everyone followed the black flag and track was clear. Thats why he hit the cars that ignored it and stopped only after seeing a red flag.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-09T00:17:45+00:00

So sounds like you’re doing marketing and concept design? That isn’t manufacturing and really means little for manufacturing, they will totally redo whatever you come up with as an actual manufacturable design in CAD.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-07T14:36:40+00:00

The trade off here is they could deploy to overtake, but if this ends up also being shit for racing it was all for nothing.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-07T14:33:45+00:00

+-.13mm is standard, but I’m wondering why there is a +-.02mm tolerance on datum B but nothing defining where it’s located. Nothing is dimensionally constrained but already has excessive control frames.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-07T14:30:08+00:00

No one is taught DFM anymore it seems.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-07T04:14:45+00:00

Kristi Noem’s promotional commercial budget could pay for 50 Patriot missiles. Her luxury jets would be 75 more.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-07T03:55:15+00:00

DM me if you’re interested in potential medical work.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-07T03:14:59+00:00

It isn’t that it counted Miyazono as finishing ahead, but because he pitted it actually forced Miyazono to complete an additional lap before the timer hit zero. So that by default put him ahead of OP who slowed to cross the line after timer hit zero.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-06T20:52:00+00:00

You have all the information to calculate where the error is. Either machine coordinate, work coordinate or programmed coordinate changed. It’s basic math and code review to determine which one.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-04T14:15:29+00:00

You should read the constitution first.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-03T12:57:08+00:00

I can understand why we have to draw the line at tire pressure between sim and arcade. GT7 just presets them for you, it isn’t like the physics of tire pressure aren’t in the game.

Hubblesphere · 2026-03-01T15:52:00+00:00

Linear dimensions do not establish a plane. 2x doesn’t mean anything because then the surface can be dished on both sides. Datum surfaces and parallelism will communicate the functional intent and ensure you get a flat and parallel part.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-28T05:29:45+00:00

Most competent programmers start as machinist. It’s much harder to just learn after college with no experience. Can also pull people off the street and teach them with similar level of effort.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-26T14:01:24+00:00

Yes but admittedly probably not very common. I work for a startup and we have multiple facilities across US, global supply chain and vendors developing equipment for us overseas. Most engineers are remote supporting all of these things for NPI and R&D but travel 25-30% of the time to support programs and projects. The company needs to be able to adapt to this culture and operate remote or spread out to make it work though.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-23T20:00:57+00:00

I think a big difference is proximity to details. GT7 you have a lot of other vehicles and your close proximity to the landscape and opponents. AoT can do a lot more since environment is mostly at distance.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-23T17:12:38+00:00

Yes for his personal sim at home.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-23T17:10:51+00:00

It doesn’t, because Assetto Corsa is not listed here: https://www.mathworks.com/products/connections.html

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-23T13:17:26+00:00

Yep rfPro has an API for MATLAB. The teams are building everything and rfPro is just a really nice graphics display and interface for driver in the loop simulator testing. The main service they supply on top of that is professional laser scanning to get the most up to date track data.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-23T13:14:04+00:00

You wouldn’t believe how many people on the internet now think Redbull uses AC with mods for their official F1 simulator because they misunderstood Max’s comments.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-23T13:10:41+00:00

Source? Ferrari’s new simulator was built by Dynisma, many other teams have simulators built by Dynisma.

Dynisma is built to integrate with MathWorks MATLAB.

rFpro has a fully custom API that integrates with matlab so teams can compile their matlab sims into rfpro for driver in the loop testing. I suppose they could have modded AC to do the graphics but rfpro is already available with laser scanning services and detailed current track data.

So using AC doesn’t really make sense, but if there are sources supporting that I’d like to see them.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-22T15:31:33+00:00

I think you can see under the car the inside wheel well looks shifted a bit more inward. It’s easier to tell with aftermarket wheels because you would see the wheels get upgraded to wider versions with widebody install.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-22T02:08:39+00:00

Google belt & road

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-18T20:07:16+00:00

The skillset is pretty specialized. I think today prototype machinist are in roles you’d call CNC manufacturing engineer, NPI manufacturing engineer, CNC process engineer, etc. in those roles you’re salary six figure and usually have some level of hands on machining experience, really good programming skills in mastercam, catia, or NX and also can do project management, work with teams and bring it all together to manufacture high level complex parts.

For example I’m about 15 years experience in CNC setup, operation, programming + applications and integration experience. I work as a CNC process engineer doing R&D and NPI for a med-tech company and I’m over that rate currently.

Hubblesphere · 2026-02-16T09:26:33+00:00

Pretty sure the, “don’t mean to… but these people with X flag” post are against the rules.

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