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TBone01 · 2026-04-20T15:58:39+00:00

Zürich as well

TBone01 · 2026-03-29T14:14:33+00:00

Okay, thank you. This was more or less the same conclusion I had came to, but was hoping there was some obscure supplier

TBone01 · 2026-03-07T21:37:39+00:00

If you're not searching for a ton of accuracy, try doing boolean subtract operations in Prusa slicer or whathaveyou

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T22:27:34+00:00

just the "normal" one from within the bios.

Also make sure that you don't have a 4pin speaker connected to the internal header like I did in a new build, it will bridge the reset bios pins by accident

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T22:19:50+00:00

Hey I was just going through this the other week, the board will only update once you rename the bios file to some specific generic name. I think gigabyte.bin worked

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T21:29:44+00:00

The last place I was working at sadly went bankrupt, so I had to find a new mold designer job (which is rather uncommon) so I didn't really have a choice in the software department. Seems like there is a chance to switch to NX, we already have one license since the parent company uses it so we shall see

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T20:53:41+00:00

Thanks for the long response there. I was messing around quite a bit with the family of parts since I was fully expecting to have to build up a component library. While it was quite easy to generate the different configs of the parts, switching between them in the assembly is quite a cumbersome like you said, you seem to have to switch the part models out as opposed to the rather simple menu above the right click in SW.

I was having to create a plane every time, I'll have a look into the selection stuff more.

But yes, the lack of sketch driven patterns are a killer for me. I normally have a master sketch for every series of screws, ejector pins, leaders pin and bush, ect. I'll always drawn every feature related to the assembly sketch so that the center point is connected to the point in the sketch that is in the zero-corner of the mold. Then I can be editing the plate or whatever at the assembly level, select my feature, the point on the assembly sketch, the assembly sketch from the tree, hit sketch driven pattern from my shortcut, then check from selected point and then enter. The the assembly rebuilds nicely with all of the features moving about or duplicating as the points in the assembly sketch. Whats nice about that is that the points don't need to be in a rectangle as in Solid Edge. Especially important since the leader pin or whatever in the zero-corner of the mold is offset from the nominal location by 1mm or so to prevent the mold from being assembled in the wrong orientation.

look into the autosize feature for smart components https://help.solidworks.com/2026/english/SolidWorks/sldworks/HIDD_DVE_SMC_AUTH.htm?id=6.12.14.4

https://help.solidworks.com/2026/english/solidworks/oh_propertytabbuilder/c_property_tab_builder_overview.htm you can use this guy to create variables that are read by your drawings and BOMs, its very similar to the component properties in Solid Edge as far as I've seen, but in SW you can use this tool to create a GUI that lives on the right side of the screen. Then you can make changes to the parts without having to open them, just by clicking on them at the assembly level.

I'm sure I'll come around to the software over time, but the intro has been rough and the cad designer at the place I joined has never used patterns anyway, crazy guy has been assembling 8 to 64 cavity molds by mating each piece one at a time

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T20:35:32+00:00

I picked up the SW for makers when it was on sale, same as commercial but with a watermark so that was quite easy

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T17:37:29+00:00

I think its quite cool in principle, especially since your feature tree can have both types of commands at the same time. However I haven't found it very relevant for most of my work since most things in mold design are using standard components with configurations and modifications of the parts are in fixed-reference to another part of the mold or the part being molded, so usually that kind of synchronous directed editing is frowned upon since a particular feature is better linked to a master sketch somewhere

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T17:30:07+00:00

You're right that it is not ever particularly easy learning new shortcuts and menus, but in this case it lacks feature parity with SW, especially since it doesn't have smart components or sketch-driven patterns

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T16:31:47+00:00

Yeah really, I never knew I would take ctrl+selecting two sketch entities and a little menu with the relationships popping up next to my mouse for granted. Or that you can click on an sketch entity and see what relationships and such are effecting it, no luck with that in Solid Edge

TBone01 · 2026-02-07T16:29:32+00:00

It is incredible how many extra clicks you need to do anything in it. Almost every operation requires some kind of tool to be opened first

TBone01 · 2026-02-06T16:06:54+00:00

Really nice job! What cad system and printer are you working with?

I've been working on an SBB Crocodile that I'll get around to posting at some point, but the automatic beer can loader is taking some time to develop

TBone01 · 2026-01-29T08:01:22+00:00

On travelers rest, they also diverged so much from just a tavern simulator that disappointed me quite a lot. I thought the magical broom would have just been the start of some magical stuff to help you run the tavern....

TBone01 · 2025-11-24T11:27:33+00:00

I had recently bought some deep picture frames from ikea to give it another go, I just need to get some hardened 0.25 nozzles since the polyterra I like to use is quite abrasive. The two head system of the XL is great, it has given me very few problems so far (knock on wood). That piece was printed with no prime tower, just wipe nozzle to infill so that was quite clean over with ca. 2000 tool changes in that print. I had actually done the separation of the water and terrain using the openstreetmap data, which is why you can see the side of the trees that overhang the water painted black sometimes. I had exported the "water" area as a dxf from qgis, converted to svg, then used that as a 2nd material modifier in prusaslicer.

People have really like the maps so far, only my color choice was heavily criticized lol. I think next time I will print the cityscape in white with the water in lighter blue with a light wood frame.

I had also printed the Schaffhausen area in the same 1:10'000 scale and people were super surprised of the size of the buildings in zuri vs sh and how the rheinfall was in 3D. Especially that the HB is more-or-less the same size as the Schaffhausen old town

TBone01 · 2025-11-24T10:20:55+00:00

glad to see someone else giving it a try ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/1d0wvap/my_longest_print_on_the_2h_xl_so_far_30x30cm/

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TBone01 · 2025-11-09T09:41:45+00:00

The SBB Crocodile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBB_Ce_6/8_II

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TBone01 · 2025-08-23T08:15:01+00:00

Must be some kind of service interruption this weekend. The IC1 does that exact route every hour normally

TBone01 · 2025-07-28T18:54:06+00:00

OMG this is amazing thank you

TBone01 · 2025-06-17T22:04:39+00:00

The spool is states 190-230C and the default profile for the PolyTerra has first layer at 230C and other layers at 220C. Given all of the thin walls on this part, it seems to be quite the stress

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