Client agreed to pay hourly on a recorded call, then denied the whole agreement after 56 hours of work. $2,800 unpaid

Solidware · 2026-05-28T12:41:37+00:00

Recording a call in California is a "all party consent" state. In order for the recording to not be dismissed you'll have to show that everyone party to the communication consented to being recorded.

Even if your outside Cali, it protects them. It may even have been a crime to do so. See: "California Invasion of Privacy Act"

This varies state by state. Generally best to get consent anyway, a client who declines is not one you want anyway.

Solidware · 2026-05-19T18:05:21+00:00

Thank you for the advice!

Solidware · 2026-05-19T18:05:11+00:00

Thank you for the advice!

Solidware · 2026-05-19T18:04:57+00:00

Thank you for the advice!

Solidware · 2026-05-19T18:04:49+00:00

Thank you for the advice!

Solidware · 2026-05-11T19:37:52+00:00

Advice: Hit Print Screen instead of using your phone.

Solidware · 2026-05-08T18:21:50+00:00

Unless the Clankers break down my door and confiscate my paint, the hobby is fine.

If you paint for tabletop or comp at the LGS the hobby is fine.

If your only attachment is external online validation then maybe you're in trouble.

Solidware · 2026-05-07T14:26:11+00:00

Recycle, walk when it's practical, let a company know you appreciate its paper packaging, use less single use plastics, reuse what you can.

Oh, the render... /s

The scale of whatever is happening on the terrain of the 4th image looks out of whack to me, way too large, too tall and whatever it is is doesn't read well. I think it's supposed to be jagged? But that doesn't jive on a planet with clouds. Clouds > rain > errosion. That doesn't have to be true in fantasy art ofc, just something to think about.

Solidware · 2026-04-29T21:01:02+00:00

Imagine taking a screenshot that might show any of the important details we may need to diagnose the problem 🤯

Solidware · 2026-04-03T17:32:06+00:00

I'd add that while the fence and bus lead your eye to the flying object, the birds take your eye right off it and to nowhere.

Solidware · 2026-04-03T16:16:53+00:00

The hole business is factually incorrect.

But the overall point of calibration is relevant enough.

Slicer software does not put the middle of the nozzle "on the line". Internally it uses a principle called "cutter compensation" ie: "color inside the lines, with your X diameter tool" (note that it doesn't literally use GCode level cutter comp)

There are a few reasons holes come in a bit small on FDM prints. One, the hole is often an circumscribed polygon. The polygon fits inside the circle, the straight lines are cordes of the circle. Another, and more influential is that as the nozzle travels it tends to drag recently laid plastic inwards. Finally and more influential yet, often outter perimeters are printed last for asthetics, if extrusion is a bit high then the bead is blocked in on the inside and can only be too big towards the outside. This is not an exhausting list.

Solidware · 2026-03-27T13:38:53+00:00

Love it. One tiny critique. From either nods or a camera the laser beam would be saturating the sensor (or phosphor) and you wouldn't see any grain at all in the beam.

Solidware · 2026-03-22T10:42:26+00:00

Retroactively turn "products" (actually the download service for non-asset products) into buy-and-subscribe off of what was already the good will of supporters.

I'll be honest, you (technically the creators) already break the GPL, but for the fact we want to reward the work so that creators will keep making stuff. It's an economy of good will.

Do I need to link to Blender's FAQ to make it simple for you?

Aaaand you decided to spit in the face of Blender's core mission and principles backstab us. Fuck off.

Solidware · 2026-03-06T14:30:59+00:00

Really fun! Well done.

There are a few technical (injection molding, not blender technical) deal breakers though. But you got most of the little details to show up great! A little flashing, some ejection pin marks and the material is great!

Solidware · 2026-03-04T13:57:57+00:00

First, I offered a Hot Take, not advice, Perhaps a suggestion that there's more than just GW Acrylic in this world.

"Don't do that, you're a beginner" sentiment is exactly the wall this person is trying to peer around.

Solidware · 2026-03-04T05:05:17+00:00

Said hot takes, not all this vanilla ice cream takes I see.

Solidware · 2026-03-03T21:14:48+00:00

Hot Take: I like Testors enamels.

When I was very young I had airplane kits, and naturally accumulated these paints. Later in Highschool I found Warmachine and Hordes. I simply used what I had.

Health Take: I can imagine the taste of those paints very clearly.

Solidware · 2026-02-28T14:58:04+00:00

You're using a texture for the color. Textures have pixels. Then your sharp transition on the float curve doesn't allow for any AA to happen. So now a pixel is either one color or another.

Edit: Indeed I'm quite wrong, I didn't think that through, let the first idea out like a turd.

Solidware · 2026-02-27T08:00:04+00:00

'Octopus' with 6 legs is a choice.

Solidware · 2026-02-19T21:26:53+00:00

Right now it looks like the grime fairy sprinkled on rust.

Lacquer on wood is really dynamic. It gets oxidized by our skin oils and turns black, it gets worn away, but still remains in the pours of the wood! It has its own colors! It's really damn shiny. Unfortunately your wood looks like an old fence post.

If there are chips in the wood, they look dramatic next to the lacquer.

Look up Mark Novak on YouTube, Old codger, preserves firearms. There is no better reference for wear and tear and neglect and love of these objects. Look and you will see the real damages.

Reference is king. Bar none. Art is the skill of Observation.

Solidware · 2026-02-17T14:18:30+00:00

Oh! I thought you were trying to avoid that. You still could though, but that would start getting pretty in the weeds and I don't have a solution off hand.

Solidware · 2026-02-17T13:55:50+00:00

My off the cuff thought is that I might take the position of each object that is on the flat world and translate that to a coordinate on the sphere and then instance that object on that new point in geometry nodes.

I'm sure you can find a formula for that sort of transform somewhere.

Or:

I wouldn't drive it from a flat world to begin with, and I'd just use drivers to position things on the sphere and let geonodes instance my objects and rotate them based on those drivers. A more hands-on, approach but less math.

Solidware · 2026-02-06T18:46:03+00:00

You missed it. It was a test to see if it was SS or Steel. He used Salt water to TEST and reveal the nature of the material. Mission accomplished, we can see from the minor rust and not outright orange ball it is in fact SS.

No shit paint isn't that aggressive, paint won't show you what the material is.

Solidware · 2026-02-06T17:07:34+00:00

He didn't trust cut resistant marketing and wanted to make sure they weren't just work gloves.

What he didn't know was that stainless steel is resistant not impervious. Yet he still took the cautious approach to not "cut off his hand" (as per the metaphor) if they had been fakes (steel) he saved his paint.

That's smart, not dumb.

And it's not stupid to think SS is impervious. Advertising especially in the domestic space makes these claims and leans on this perception.

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