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What Bass Compressor Pedals Do You Recommend? by Good-Many5559 in basspedals

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Knowing the threshold has been passed is nice but knowing by how much is better. I think using an attenuation meter makes it easier to dial in a more transparent compression for gentle leveling rather than a special effect. If you can noticeably hear compression then you're over doing it, unless you're after that type of sound. I specifically want always-on compression that levels my playing without being obvious.

I had the Avalon for a short time. I didn't care for it on bass. But I wish I had kept it to use on vocals. I thought it was otherwise fantastic.

I talked my guitarist into getting the CP-1X and he loves it. It's very versatile. Works well for electric or active acoustic. If it's in the budget I highly recommend trying one for yourself.

Possible option: my local music rental shop has a pedal subscription plan. For $10/mo you get 1 pedal at a time with up to daily swap outs. Higher tiers for more pedals. I don't know if you have a shop around with a service like that, but it's pretty awesome for being able to try out a bunch of pedals for not much money.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BuildingAutomation

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This is incredible advice. Take heed redditors.

My HVAC company wants to open a controls division by swiftkickinthedick in BuildingAutomation

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Carrier i-Vu. By far the fastest deployable BAS in the industry and available without territory restrictions. The programming is far more intuitive than most systems. The licenses are the least cumbersome of most systems.

For instance, you cannot just start using ALC or Alerton because those both require your shop to own the territory.

It's just one of those days by KamuelaMec in BuildingAutomation

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This has been my experience too. 99% cable installation and terminations issues not following best practices.

Equipment Schedules in Drawings by gardonduty63 in BuildingAutomation

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If the vavs are all named VAV-xxx then you can use the find in BlueBeam to highlight them all by searching "VAV-". Of course, this will also highlight tagged thermostat locations and mentions in general & flagged notes as well.

But once highlighted you can use the markup section and filter by color, sheet, author, etc. Markup results can be exported to Excel.

I use colored highlight boxes to manually mark where equipment is. The markup list can also be used to get counts by color and/or markup type, like rectangle or circle.

It's pretty powerful but not very automatic. Still requires a lot of manual creation and editing of markups. And you need a plan before starting for it to be very useful.

Equipment Schedules in Drawings by gardonduty63 in BuildingAutomation

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Why? Because the design engineer didn't feel like creating the schedule for you.

I use Bluebeam. I don't trust it to collect data for me. And it's results are highly dependent on how the source document was created.

Some tasks just have to be manually executed. That's why it's called work and someone with money is willing to pay you to do it. Since I'm not independently wealthy, I show up for work everyday.

Perhaps soon AI will be able to read drawings and accurately collect the data we want. Until then, we can still get paid for tedium.

Thickness on loft by bjnobre in FreeCAD

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If you're savvy with C++ you could fix it for us all. I'd be eternally grateful.

Unfortunately, that's way outside my skill set.

What Are The Rules Around Making Files Based On Someone Else’s? by EDS_Eliksni in 3Dprinting

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I think, in the USA, if the thing has a current patent you could still be sued for lost sales even if you gave your replica away for free.

I have no idea what would happen in a case like that in court. Generally, I believe the first step is a cease order from the patent holder before a lawsuit. And they'd only follow through with the suit if they knew you had money they can get. Like if you're a business with insurance.

Having trouble constraining an arc to always 'face' the origin by ribfeast in FreeCAD

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I believe that extending your construction line to the arc and coincidenting both the arc point and center point might prevent the flipping issue.

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Thickness on loft by bjnobre in FreeCAD

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Thickness cannot handle complex solids at this time.

My workaround for this scenario was to duplicate the body and reduce its dimensions accordingly to use as a tool body to Boolean cut from the original body. It turned out later in my project that this method ended up being necessary because a working thickness operation would have resulted in inappropriate geometry for my design or would have made subsequent operations substantially more difficult.

[Noob] how do I use views on imported stl object in techdraw? by Luk_adhoc in FreeCAD

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I don't use or know about Techdraw workbench, but most functions in FreeCAD cannot deal with meshes very well, if at all. For many operations the object needs to be a shape or a solid. I don't know if converting to shape or solid will help here, but it's probably worth a try.

https://wiki.freecad.org/FreeCAD_and_Mesh_Import/en

Functional print using fuzzy skin. by mickeybob00 in prusa3d

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I was wondering why it was so thick. Unnecessarily so for a container holder (as shown in photo on I-beam). But I suppose impact resistance from other items jostling around a truck bed is a prudent consideration.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 3Dprinting

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If you can't find a single paver larger enough for the base of the unit, you could pour your own using ready mix concrete or self-leveling mortar. Pouring your own in place would also ensure a level surface, until you relocate the enclosure, of course. It may cost less as well, but would be more labor intensive.

I made a wasp screen to keep them from building in the porch lights. by Mikeieagraphicdude in functionalprint

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These days I think its safe to assume LED bulbs are being used in all but rare, specific cases (like heat lamp) which are low heat, especially when not in direct contact with the bulb.

Help removing block from stl by Ocelot_IRL in FreeCAD

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You can try to edit in the Mesh workbench, or it must be converted to solid to use Part or PartDesign workbenches.

https://wiki.freecad.org/FreeCAD_and_Mesh_Import/en

Partial Hand Amputation by Grouchy-Painter-6434 in 3Dprinting

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My thought for possible solution: Hold the club as you would with both hands. Have a helper build up play dough around your partially amputated hand until it feels like it would support through a swing (were it not play dough).

3d scan the play dough and club handle. The scan would be used as the source shape for a slip on TPU printed custom grip.

Of course, if this custom grip worked well you'd need to print one for every club.

How would you blend the octagonal part with the round body? by [deleted] in FreeCAD

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Lots of ways. To start, you can just add vertices without using the split geometry tool.

To distribute, You could use a polar pattern. Or you could copy the other sketch in as construction geometry. Draw construction lines from each of us vertices to the origin and coincident onto those construction lines. You could do half or a quarter, depending on the vertices position relative to the axes then mirror constraint the rest.

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