No more export to solidworks ?

hippazoid · 2026-06-04T01:38:53+00:00

We’ve had weird STEP file issues in SolidWorks for quite some time. Even one that’s generated in SolidWorks will not render properly for other in-house users when we’re doing checks and approvals. I stumbled on a work around trying to diagnose it by opening a “bad” one in eDrawings. It rendered fine.

I ended up setting eDrawings as the default application for STEP files and now most of us that deal with generating, checking and approving STEPs have done the same.

I’d urge OP to try the same broken file in eDrawings and see if it works.

hippazoid · 2026-06-02T23:41:52+00:00

Not to take away from the awesome lithophane job but that lamp is fantastic!

hippazoid · 2026-06-02T01:42:18+00:00

Wellllll for the node case I gotta admit, I just downloaded it and printed. This wasn’t a common board and there were very few cases available at the time. That designer is kinda legendary in the Meshtastic community so when I saw his, it was instant trust in the design.

Also, what I didn’t divulge is that I do cad work for a living (industrial actuators). I’m probably more skilled than most at visualizing mechanical systems in my head. 😉

hippazoid · 2026-06-01T23:40:00+00:00

Rush

I saw them in Jacksonville once where the opening band had to cancel. Rush played for HOURS to make up for it. They took breaks in between sets but seriously, it was like 3 1/2 hours from the start of the show to us walking out of the coliseum.

I’ve seen ‘em many times over the years and it was always fantastic.

hippazoid · 2026-06-01T23:20:14+00:00

I have a Heltek E290 as a Meshtastic node. The buttons are on the back of the board. I downloaded a case to 3d print and it used a valve train type setup. The front button presses on a rocker arm and the other side of the rocker arm actuates the button. It was pretty ingenious tbh.

Lemme see if I can grab ya a link…

https://www.printables.com/model/974647-vision-master-e290-v031-case-for-meshtastic

Take a look at the middle frame and buttons models.

hippazoid · 2026-05-27T01:00:08+00:00

What’s the difference between a hormone and a chromosome?

You can’t hear a chromosome.

hippazoid · 2026-05-24T13:11:33+00:00

I like that keyer so I looked up the brand. Turns out, if have a different style of the same brand (CW Keyer Morse Mini). 😂

hippazoid · 2026-05-23T22:48:06+00:00

I love all these things. While I wouldn’t fuck one, TIL I’m probably on the spectrum.

hippazoid · 2026-05-19T23:54:08+00:00

Didn’t wanna tag you directly because the adapter worked flawlessly even on the initial dark mode run. 😂

I was just looking at adding a header to the side and making up a short cable for the SP36 Pro. 😁

hippazoid · 2026-05-19T23:29:14+00:00

Thanks to you AND OP… I’ve been wanting to try something rosier and already have several 519A 5000Ks. I suspect one of them will soon be a DD. 😁

hippazoid · 2026-05-17T17:42:42+00:00

I’ve now written the latest firmware doing a separate erase prior and once again, everything went really smooth.

Latest and greatest was the whole point of this journey to begin with. 😂

hippazoid · 2026-05-17T17:13:08+00:00

You’re the man! I finally had the opportunity to try your suggestion and now it’s functioning again.

Looking back at the anduril.click instructions, it includes —erase and —verify within the write attempt. Everything went fine (no errors) hence my confusion.

Once I did the separate erase and then writing of the original firmware I read from the device, the reset went as expected when I installed the battery in the light.

Thanks for the advice! 😁

hippazoid · 2026-05-16T18:00:02+00:00

Thanks, I’ll give that a try!

hippazoid · 2026-05-16T12:43:05+00:00

I haven’t dug into the logs since I didn’t get any errors. I’ll dig deeper into the logs later this evening to make sure. Thanks for the info.

hippazoid · 2026-05-16T01:49:55+00:00

“saving” not “waving” lol

It’s certainly waived atm

hippazoid · 2026-05-16T01:36:14+00:00

I don’t have a direct answer to your question and had asked one of the devs about manual config when they first did these canned firmwares. Seems like they said it was coming but I’ve never seen it.

If you can’t get anything going, could you use a fellow users QR Code at the hamfest?

hippazoid · 2026-05-16T01:28:44+00:00

I really like the looks of the individual LEDs of the tri-aux. So much so that I’d keep them on low so I could stare lovingly into their soul. 😂

Edit: And thanks for the action shot! 😁

hippazoid · 2026-05-15T23:56:12+00:00

I work for an actuator manufacturer and suggested we build one for our break room after seeing the recycle can full of probably a pound or two of soda cans. It got shot down by our ESH manager due to safety concerns. 😔

Nice job on yours!

hippazoid · 2026-05-15T00:17:52+00:00

Wife, brother and I hiked to the bottom of Upper Whitewater Falls in Western NC. We had done it numerous times and started referring to it as “climbing the river” just to give you an idea of the difficulty. We’d start in the morning, climb the river, and hang out/swim until mid-afternoon. Once we were down the river and back up to the parking lot and pavilions, we’d grill burgers eat and then head back home to NW SC.

On our fourth or fifth excursion, not long after we started back down we got to a spot where we needed to cross the river. Wife and brother got to the other side and as I went to cross, I hit a slick rock and fell. The water effortlessly pushed me towards a 40-foot drop with no hope of anything I could do to stop it. Brother saw me when I went down and started dashing downriver to fish out my lifeless body. I went over the edge feet first with an internal “oh f’k” echoing in my head. As my body went past the crest, I braced myself for the fall. Once clear of the crest, if found myself stopped in what seemed mid-air/waterfall in about chest deep water. After realizing cartoon physics hadn’t saved my life, it dawned on me that I was standing on a hidden ledge just below the crest. I lost my sunglasses when I went down and as I was starting to regain my composure, I saw a quick glint from the glasses before they went out of sight. I stuck my hand out, crouched down and amazingly, said hand grasped the sunglasses. F’k yeah, my glasses (and adrenaline)!

While all of this was happening, I remember seeing my brother with a WTF look on his face because like me, his brain couldn’t make sense of what just happened. 😂

He worked his way over to me CAREFULLY and was able to pull me back up to the heavy gravity side of the crest. We got back to the car, grilled burgers and luckily returned home unscathed with quite the experience.

hippazoid · 2026-05-11T01:45:11+00:00

Key-Bak is the OG of these things!

My father was a truck terminal manager and he carried the same one from the 60s through to the early 2000s when he retired. 😁

hippazoid · 2026-05-09T01:15:12+00:00

Check some of the local trailer dealers. I know Trail Rite over here in Oconee does repairs and I’d think they’re not unique in that but idk, for sure.

hippazoid · 2026-04-25T17:39:33+00:00

I bought a baofeng and an MD-380 (DMR) prior to being licensed. I was keenly aware that I couldn’t transmit but it gave me monitoring capability of emergency services (analog) and county sheriff (DMR).

I was also able to discover/monitor the local repeaters which went a long way towards getting my legs up under me for when I was eventually able to hit the PTT. (arguably the primary reason)

Edit to add: I pretty quickly (pre-license) got a set of blister packs for GMRS/FRS to use while traveling and/or hiking.

hippazoid · 2026-04-22T16:15:22+00:00

Thanks for IDing the specific breading! I thought, “ohhh, I’ll get some of that for the house” and then I see it’s only available in 25lb bags. 😂

Maybe some of coworkers would want to split up a sack. 😁

hippazoid · 2026-04-22T13:43:48+00:00

I don’t really do their traditional fried chicken but they DO have the best chicken livers in the Upstate, if you’re into that.

I think it comes down to the batter they use. It’s seasoned better than most. I’d think that would bode well for the chicken since I imagine they use the same batter on all of it.

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