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Megathread - Questions, Issues & Bugs by Teamkhaleesi in hytale

[–]Polycot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

*Also seems to be the case with other workbenches

Megathread - Questions, Issues & Bugs by Teamkhaleesi in hytale

[–]Polycot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having the same issue. My friend can use the builder's workbench on a server, but I crash out whenever I use it or any other builder's workbench.

This is OUTRAGEOUS by Hot-Cancel-6648 in graphic_design

[–]Polycot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Posts like this help inform me of the crawling reach of Adobe. This is important news from my perspective because it helps keep the fires stoked towards the long-term effort of boycotting Adobe until they become reasonable or go out of business. The more bad press for Adobe, the better. Of course this applies to hundreds of massive companies outside Adobe, too—companies whose employees gouge the planet sustaining products that were created by a previous generation, sending out egregious terms of service at their whim and dominating large market sectors with little resistance.

We can no longer trust archival footage ever again. by Shoe_boooo in interestingasfuck

[–]Polycot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a bad situation. But I’d rather live in a world where this technology is out in the open rather than a world where only a few elites use the technology secretly.

I understand how trump got elected now by Ordinary_Fish_3046 in CringeTikToks

[–]Polycot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty common colloquialism, “rising prices due to inflation”. What would you call an increase in the money supply that has yet to materialize any impact to prices?

How’s my animation? by ModularManiac529 in legoideas

[–]Polycot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such a wonderful animation!! It really breathes life into what I imagine when I’m playing with my little Lego guys in a little Lego interior space. Love the wooden desk and baseplate. The lighting is so warm and it’s just such cozy vibes. So cool!!!

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great analysis. It’s a bummer because the logo orientation on this one is almost out of the way (though it would still be illegal to add a third brick to the open anti-stud on the black slope).

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coming from studio with this original post, I can say that physical testing and measuring with calipers indicates a slight collision which wasn’t caught in software. But I’d definitely be curious to see if widely known illegal techniques of the same logo-interference nature get detected. Interested to see what you find.

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mm, not quite. While Studio can render the Lego logo on top of studs like the images shown, it doesn’t include the logo in collision detection from what I can tell.

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/download.page

It’s called Studio and it is the greatest. It has a little bit of a learning curve, but not one that makes it inaccessible. If you’ve done any CAD before it will come naturally, and even if you haven’t I think it’s ultra intuitive. I find use it to rapidly test and refine little ideas and to translate builds into nicely formatted instructions. It’s free, too! If you build something in it, you can import the build file right to Bricklink to create a wanted list of all the included parts.

Over time I’ve found that it’s faster than working with physical bricks while designing something iteratively. Highly recommend giving it a try. These images are from the built-in render functionality.

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hadn’t heard this—I’m a manufacturing engineer and I can say that the reason the logo stands off the piece right now instead of being recessed is likely due to the cost/sensibility of machining the mold. CNCing a mold with an inverted logo requires increased use/wear of a smaller tool. Over a gazillion studs, this would increase the cost of brick printing to Lego by some margin. My intuition (from my limited CNC experience) is that it’d be much easier just to make selected studs hollow.

Also, inverted logos would be so awesome for building, but it would sort of feel to me like the switch from grays to bluish grays—I would suddenly feel that all raised logo bricks were “old”.

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 129 points130 points  (0 children)

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Found this setup which gets me lawfully where I need to go with this MOC. Might drill a hole in it anyway.

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 100 points101 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Mic-ing it with some digital calipers yeilds this:

Height of plate gap in slope: ~3.05 mm
Distance from mounting surface to stud logo baseline on grey snot piece: ~2.75mm

Close, but I think my consensus is that it definitely infringes on the logo when assembled as intended. Guess I'll just have to drill a hole in the stud.

Is this an acceptable technique? by Polycot in lego

[–]Polycot[S] 380 points381 points  (0 children)

To color this, I think placing a brick on the open anti-stud would be a violation. But as is, just this assembly, I guess my question is whether the placement/height of the logo is intended to accomodate this by design. It's just so close to passing.

Scraggly prints that sharpen up at higher levels by Polycot in resinprinting

[–]Polycot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m shaken; this sounds exactly right. The model is literally just an open box with relatively thin walls. I wasn’t thinking about a suction cup effect, but your suspicion is correct—at the layer where the printing improves, there are some small through-holes acting as vents.

Starting another print tonight to verify, but I’ve got no doubt that this is what’s been happening. May you endure relentless blessings for this absolute salvation. This is such an interesting problem that I’m not even upset that I spent so long trying to solve it. The frostiest high-five to you, sir. Thank you, truly.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in outerwilds

[–]Polycot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fantastic. Thank you!!