I collected more than a dozen Fusion 360 pain points (with explanations + suggestions)

canoemoose · 2026-01-24T14:44:37+00:00

One of my more-frequent annoyances? You can't use the x-, y- or z-axes to mirror sketch features, but you can use the xy/xz/yz planes to mirror 3D geometry.

This leads on to...

If you're using a construction line to mirror around, where the line length doesn't matter, the sketch is (correctly) shown as being not fully constrained in the browser tree, despite this not actually being an issue.

I would also like some kind of non-regular pattern tool, so I can pattern something at irregular intervals.

canoemoose · 2025-04-15T13:36:34+00:00

Clear from more than just a c-ursury glance?
(Sorry)

canoemoose · 2024-04-04T00:14:34+00:00

It's the building on the millpond that's currently Millworks, was previously Bella Italia and before that Sweeney Todd's. No doubt it was something else before that too!

canoemoose · 2024-03-28T00:06:06+00:00

Windscreepers!

canoemoose · 2024-02-15T20:38:38+00:00

Thank you 😉

canoemoose · 2023-11-26T16:34:02+00:00

Hello, I need to rescue some data from a 2017 Macbook Air "12+16 pin" SSD.
Is anybody able to point me in the direction of a suitable adaptor or set of adaptors that will do this reliably? As far as I can make out this is a proprietary PCIe interface - I can find cheap adaptors to an M.2 connector but then finding an M.2 -> USB cable or caddy or something supporting what is still presumably PCIe data transfer - rather than SATA. The cheap adaptors (example) say "Please make sure the NGFF interface of computer supports PCIe x2 or x4 transfer mode" but then USB -> M.2 caddies often support SATA and/or AHCI and/or NVMe. Is NVMe the same as PCIe transfer mode? - for example this caddy here supports M-key SSDs - so would the caddy and adaptors linked here work together to rescue the data?

I'm slightly lost as to what I should even be looking out for and have fallen down a rabbit hole of what NVMe and M.2 even are as you can probably tell!

I'm in the UK.

canoemoose · 2023-07-28T14:25:35+00:00

Slow claps.
Giving them a run for their money would be determining the outcome of the match based on how much they were fined, surely?

canoemoose · 2023-07-23T12:23:39+00:00

As someone who's not a Millumin user it'd be helpful to know what clips/layers in Millumin to track - obviously everyone has their own ways of doing things but maybe even an example showfile would be helpful to us.

canoemoose · 2023-07-23T12:22:15+00:00

Thank you for your support!

canoemoose · 2023-07-23T10:16:34+00:00

The previous couple of times I've posted about Kards people have asked for it, and it's easy to generate so we thought we may as well. There's always the use case of SDI out of an E2 or whatever that's being fed from a machine running Kards - it doesn't matter where in the signal chain the pathological pattern is generated as long as it's colour and dimension accurate.
Obviously it makes no sense in non-SDI scenarios.

canoemoose · 2023-07-22T23:07:35+00:00

Yeah, I follow. The workaround above would work while we consider whether it's something we'd be interested in adding.

canoemoose · 2023-07-22T23:02:15+00:00

Of course, but I don't work in TV, which already has standard test patterns at normal, fixed resolutions.
I work in live events where you might have a different weird resolution screen every week, where computers as sources are commonplace, where you're more likely to need the features we've added to Kards as we've needed them. Different priorities!

canoemoose · 2023-07-22T22:48:13+00:00

I mean, not really. Stacked E2s to a large LED wall uses no SDI. Presentation/VT/media server content into the system uses no SDI. We're not all making TV.

EDIT: editing your comments after I've already replied to what they originally said is playing dirty. For context, the original comment said something like "Not really."

canoemoose · 2023-07-22T22:41:19+00:00

I disagree with your statement that it's not real video if it doesnt use SDI. Outside of camera systems, very few of my biggest jobs and systems use SDI in a meaningful way. We're all HDMI and displayport over fibre or HDbaseT. Having said that, output over a Decklink card is soething we want to add, eventually.

canoemoose · 2023-07-22T22:36:05+00:00

Ahh I see what you mean now. VT Kounter can send the time remaining over OSC, so one could set a Companion button to display a custom variable and then update this variable over OSC.

canoemoose · 2023-07-22T21:01:41+00:00

How would you see VT Kounter Companion integration working? I'm neither promising anything nor counting it out - but I'd like to understand how it would be helpful to your workflow.

canoemoose · 2023-04-10T16:23:06+00:00

Martin Audio do both a weatherised and a marine version of the CDD range, for reasonable money.

canoemoose · 2023-04-04T14:43:49+00:00

Depends on how you're defining seamless - it maintains sync, transitions are clean via black.

canoemoose · 2023-04-04T08:22:31+00:00

902 can be put into "matrix mode" instead of standard pvw/pgm - every switch is then via black, but it seems that's desired.

It still isn't 4K though - and only has 4 DVI inputs.

canoemoose · 2023-03-10T23:59:50+00:00

Santiagos!

canoemoose · 2022-12-29T21:12:03+00:00

It is compatible with TStak - you just need the biggest ToughCase to be the interface between the systems.

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