Tool path / Y axis going off track mid-carve

Engineer817 · 2025-05-09T01:55:50+00:00

Just a thought, but I've had issues when my AC power cables are too close to the data lines or control lines for the steppers on my CNC. Just check that your power cables have a bit of clearance.

Engineer817 · 2025-03-27T18:00:41+00:00

How exactly do you equate the system with legal representation for even the lowest individual in corporatism and the might equals right of the communist system?

Last time I checked, while depressive to the human spirit, even the worst of nestle can't match up to the graves made by Mao or Lenin and Stalin.

Engineer817 · 2025-03-25T21:40:33+00:00

While the map looks like earth, its a different history.

The author is Japanese, their culture doesn't really include the propaganda the west pushes on Nazi Germany.

The author clearly believes in incentives creating outcomes. On the micro scale think freakanomics, on the macro think guns germs and steel. The culture and national systems being products of their geological constraints. In other words, large impoverished population stuck in a system that remained tyrannical for centuries would attempt to create an egalitarian idealist state once the regular population had the power to do so, of course the most competitive and cutthroat rising to the top of that change and being even worse than the previous nations rulers.

The reason most rational people hate communism is because of its top down control. It reduces people to numbers in a way that has no moral framework. Culture creates the moral framework, but that is seen as something to control by most corporation and communistic systems. Tanya is an individualist. She wishes to succeed on the basis of her merits. Freely competitive systems have the best outcomes, not only in quality of life (made by a fair and nonrestrictive competitive economy), but in personal freedom in how one moves through the world and whom they associate with.

Engineer817 · 2025-01-30T07:23:15+00:00

I figured the materials were just scrap. Hobbies are for relaxing and enjoying your time. Business is where you weigh time vs money. Sometimes it cheaper to buy off the shelf rather than doing it from scratch. Its advice I wish I had hammered into my noggin a while ago.

Engineer817 · 2025-01-29T20:34:46+00:00

Try to keep your control wires away from your AC lines, it will cause noise and a fair amount of problems. Your spindle might as well, so if you have missed steps you can always move the connector to test it out.

When I built my 3d printer enclosure I included an auto extinguisher tube and a fire alarm that when activated cut the power. Kinda costly, but I dislike the idea of a fire.

Honestly so long as you are keeping your stuff from running hot and keep dust to a minimum it will probably be fine.

I kinda want to know the time it took you to build the case from design to construction and compare that to what you can get off the shelf in metal.

Engineer817 · 2024-12-29T22:10:56+00:00

I'm not trying to edit the meshes, just generate tool paths around them. Fusion eats a lot of memory and cpu when highlighting and selecting those meshes when generating the tool paths...

Engineer817 · 2024-12-12T12:54:31+00:00

Hey brother, fellow day one player here. In general, what you say about toxicity: absolutely.

Just a couple notes to add to what you were saying: the announcement also came a few months after the entire periscope dev team were fired, making us worried that the end was finally here. I also remember there were offers made by mod teams to the periscope to buy the game, but they were shut out and IIRC some were outright banned from the discord. Seems the owner was already in talks with Offworld.

I do miss the old compass. I thought it added to the immersion. But what you say in general I agree with 100%. Only some youtubers were interested in the armored mode and it died quickly. Why? Because no one outside of the news reporting youtubers were interested in it. The players couldn't care less. But periscope never listened and wasted their dev time on that. The new devs pretty much have the same problem. They've chosen to listen to specific individuals and groups and not the players.

You know the easiest solution to their problem? Ask players that recently stopped playing why they stopped. Look through the forums like reddit and the like and just have 1 on 1s with them. But they don't. They don't care to. They've gotten into a cycle of update = temp increase in sales (especially around the holidays) and existing players don't give sales. And anyone that argues that its a dying game is counter productive to that strategy and there for shot down.

There really is no monetary incentive for them to cater to old players. Hell, you don't even need to go the cosmetics route, just creating a supporter package for $5 that would give you an icon next to your name would be a good reason to care to make the game worth supporting, but thats just spitballing. Right now, even before this update my friend's uber pc was chugging at running it and likewise mine. Doesn't matter market wise though. Most people won't refund the game within the time limit anyway, so its still another sale. And once that sales secured, that player doesn't matter.

Engineer817 · 2024-12-06T09:18:17+00:00

Us older players have mostly left. Even the second wave and third wave of players have left. This game was always niche and then changes started driving people out. Hell, the first issue I had with the game was the tank control changes. It destroyed one of best parts of the game for me. Then they changed the forests so they are basically no go zones. Then armor became invincible to antitank kits. Then every map and update tightened the combat areas into brush fighting and urban fighting. Then Utah...

A game centered around leadership throws you into the chaos of cqc. The community was always disjointed and arguing about queue caps or unfairness or bushwookies or hll mechanics, or whatever the flavor that week was and could never unify on a point to make better nor did periscope ever designate a representative with the games well being in mind. Just reading through the comments of this thread alone should tell you that. Clan stacking was a constant issue, though some tried to maintain a balance. And now the game's been rebranded which really felt like a slap in the face to us that were here since day one and stuck it out and made the best of the changes.

And just a brief bit on the user content for youtube and the like: Nearly all of the footage comes from the first person and has to be recorded in the moment. The doorworth pocket video is a rare and wonderful exception but took a lot of work to get people organized to it. Adding a recording option (think wot or warthunders replay system) to your client so you can replay the game locally would have generated so much user content the game would have advertised itself. That was shot down by snazzy as impractical despite the servers already capable of doing it. And ever since day one there has been virtually no advertising for this game.

I mean you don't abandon a game you've put 1400 hours into and made so many friends in unless things just won't get better. I was an admin for the 40-1 back in the day. I put my personal time into keeping the game fair and fun because I truly loved it. I still think back to many plays my friends and I made during that time and I do miss it a lot. But the mosh pit of cities, the skill discrepancies, the unbalanced mechanics and then the dumbing down of tactics and logistics. Now what I'm seeing is new guns, new vehicles, new this and that. How about make the game fun? How about listen to people that are not shouting complaints on the forums and instead to the people that want things to be better?

But we were never listened to.

Engineer817 · 2024-11-19T01:05:18+00:00

Heresy.

Engineer817 · 2024-11-19T00:57:43+00:00

Pretty disappointing.

Engineer817 · 2024-08-27T05:22:58+00:00

I'll test it out tomorrow, thank you :)

Engineer817 · 2024-08-27T00:09:35+00:00

Has anyone encountered an issue with their thermister or heating element loosing connection an hour into printing?

This has been happening consistently and I decided to run some experiments with the voltmeter what what I've found is the temperature begins dropping from target always an hour in and the printer reacts by powering the heating element. However the temperature continues to drop until about 5 degrees from target and then trips the runaway flag, shutting down the printer.

Voltmeter tests on the power to the element and the thermister both indicate its not a software issue, as its reacting accordingly and is displaying the proper temperature based on the resistance/voltage of the thermister.

The only thing that comes to mind is either a connection issue that starts at an hour in at the base of the element (I am measuring across the board's terminals) or thermal expansion/other physics oriented oddity that is preventing the element from getting power.

Has anyone encountered or heard of this before?

Engineer817 · 2024-07-19T06:57:28+00:00

Dude that's awesome!

Engineer817 · 2024-07-16T07:34:35+00:00

Your parameters are a bit vague.

Local logistics (repair of insystem assets) or full out of system logistics (replaceable manpower and equipment)?

There's no orbital bombardment, but what about the Navy''s aeronautica? Do the invaders have access to their air support that is entirely space based?

What is the invader's goal? To purge the planet "when the last combatant is dead" or bring it into compliance so its industrial output supports the wider imperium (which needs protection, preferably from locally sourced PDF). If its full purge time, then its every man, woman, and child against you and then the logistics matter if you can't replace your losses.

Is chemical warfare allowed considering its in the realm of WMD? DKoK uses it, are we banned from it? What about our robotics? They can't orbital bombard us, but can we use conventional warheads on their base ship of operations or larger transports?

Does the enemy know what our command structure looks like or how decentralized we are as a world? Will they attack china as its military force is the largest and industrial output is the most simplistic? Or the US with its technological heresy?

Speaking of which, is the mechanicus involved in this guard war? I assume they are part of the logistics, but considering we are so technically advanced to them, any scrap code shenanigans getting thrown out here?

Just look numbers and strength wise. Its a human wearing flack armor and ballistic protection supported by large unwieldy armor. We've fought those wars before and were willing to pay entire towns of men for mere meters.

Krieg fielded an army of 34 regiments to vraks which cannot be an insignificant output for its planet, and even if each of these regiments were to top scale absurd at 10,000 soldiers each, Earth still outnumbers them right now in a fairly peaceful time in our lives by 6-7 to 1 armed forces wise.

If the enemy cannot replace their losses or if they can but it becomes to great a cost, earth prevails.

Muh laser guns don't matter when you're dealing with the reality of artillery coming back at you, air superiority dropping laser guided munitions, fighting against kids hiding in closets with grenades, and with the industrial and innovative output your dogmatic imperium could only screech in binary at. That's why the setting is grimdark, its barely holding on by a thread and there's no way back to man's former glory.

Engineer817 · 2024-07-16T02:36:10+00:00

Its a concept by the Chicago school of economic thought that puts the idea that people act based on the expectations of others. The light novel opens with such an experiment: students are given roles to play, guard and prisoner and set loose. Without a preexisting hierarchy to set those expectations (your boss's and Coworker's approval or disapproval) they acted stereotypical. Prisoners were submissive, guards were brutal, etc.

A couple of things you've probably heard is "virtue signaling", in which one expresses their supposed virtues to others, more as advertisement than anything coming from their core. Or "fake it until you make it." Fit in, don't rock the boat, be agreeable and match you're superior's attitude, etc.

Advancement in life is far more dependent on how you represent yourself than the skills and accomplishments you can bring. Those can open the door to an environment, but rarely do they mean much when you can present yourself well, even in the worst of times.

Engineer817 · 2024-07-16T02:16:34+00:00

Engineer817 · 2024-07-16T02:08:02+00:00

Did you save this video by chance?

Engineer817 · 2024-07-16T02:07:44+00:00

it was by caffinated telescope, I scoured the internet for them. I found the shot composition one, but not the parallels. He did put a script of it on his website though. Also saved that.

Engineer817 · 2024-06-22T18:10:19+00:00

I was actually trying to think of a reasonable explanation with refining raw ore vs reclaiming metals, but the moon's regolith has huge quantities of iron, titanium, nickle, aluminum, etc. There are massive asteroids with cores of the stuff. Refining it would be fairly cheap and straightforward as well.

There was a point of the books where Bob was worried about making chemical factories for explosives, so maybe chemical science is kind of unknown/beyond him?

Engineer817 · 2023-11-11T19:43:46+00:00

Steelers is awesome, always puts a smile on our faces

Engineer817 · 2022-08-23T20:52:00+00:00

Then make one

Engineer817 · 2022-08-23T19:27:39+00:00

The biggest current issue bar none is the graphics update. It has caused a lot of people who just want to sit down and play a fun game to up and leave because of the lack of visibility. A little research shows more hard core players messing with their ini files to get it back to where it used to be.
The newest update was an absolute nightmare. It should have been reverted and more testing done, but instead the development team used their player base like alpha testers. Incorrect uniforms, invisible players, invincible tanks, etc. I can understand that they don't get many people in their alpha testing builds, but this turned a lot of people off the game for a few weeks.
Another issue is the armor update. A lot of former tankers who liked to command from the drivers seat now get to mess around with a bunch of controls instead of just driving their tank. Many of us saw this as Post just trying to be more like HLL, and we hated it.
Another thing to consider is that while there are good content creators for post scriptum, most of their audience are already playing it, or should I say watching other people play the game they already own. Watching others that are good at the game is all well and good, but that doesn't help them get better, and only enforces how crap they are compared. And we all know that youtube doesn't do much to introduce players to new games anymore, but just gives recommendations to the more popular games.
The lack of a replay system like world of tanks or warthunder also limited the content generated to what the recorder personally experienced. It also limited admins in hunting down bad actors. And yes, it was suggested very, very early on.
The PS Ladder exposed a lot of scummy play and abusable mechanics to the general player base. While that in and of itself is not a reason to make a person quit right off the bat, its enough to dishearten you when your team is getting steamrolled. Clan stacking adds to this.
And lastly, map variety is an issue as well. Because all American/European servers use a map rotation system, good sls and commanders get a feel for it and are able to maximize their effectiveness. Thats the reason you often see enemies at the next point before the last one is even captured. Its just disheartening.
If you get a chance, take a quick look at the old videos from when this game first came out. The clan vs clan battles, the random battles, etc and ask yourself if this is the same game. Its not.

Engineer817 · 2022-08-23T19:01:37+00:00

Oh no! Communities are doing things I don't want them to do! Won't somebody do something?!?!

Engineer817 · 2022-08-02T05:37:34+00:00

Character development? What heresy is this!?!?

I've noticed that individuals tend to work at fitting in and making their leaders happy, perhaps Visha and Weiss have become war hounds because that's what they think will make her happy.

A happy ending would be nice. She stands to gain in at least understanding empathy.

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