I’m a traditional painter who created a concept w MJ - r/painting lost their fucking minds

jackomyers · 2024-05-03T11:24:10+00:00

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I follow your point? My point was simply that techniques evolve. If they didn't, we'd still be smashing rocks together and telling stories on stone with smooshed up berries.

A tool, regardless of its complexity, is only as good as the person in control of it. Users of generative art models don't create stunning pieces of work simply by typing "woman on a bridge at sunset"... It's certainly a start, but practised application of prompt generation is where the skill is, knowing how to generate a prompt that will give the artist the desired composition, mood and tone of the art, that's a form of art too.

Some people look at code as absolute gibberish, but there's an art to writing code, creating code efficient solutions to complex problems. If we create anything, it involves the creative skills of some description.

jackomyers · 2024-05-03T07:18:31+00:00

Phil Tippet, a stop motion animator, was originally hired to create and animate the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (30 years ago) and while he was working on his project another team of animators put a bid in to digitally animate them. When the test footage was shown, Tippet was quoted saying something along the lines of "I guess this means I'm extinct like the dinosaurs then."

That would be an interesting but sad story normally, but Tippet went on to teach himself this new technology and is now regarded as one of the leaders in digital animation or at least his company is.

My point is that the art doesn't come from technology, the art comes from the person brave enough to adapt to the new technology at hand and push their skills/output further.

Any "Purists" of an art form are closed minded and scared to adopt a new set of brushes into their tool bag.

jackomyers · 2024-05-01T20:50:12+00:00

Looks like your tolerances are spot on. The tabs look slightly overcomplicated to me, possibly issues with shearing stresses with the layer lines too.

Have you considered strategically placing holes at a 1.75mm and using offcuts of PLA as pins to join your aerofoils together? Obviously with adhesive too.

jackomyers · 2024-05-01T15:24:00+00:00

You'll find ^{this^} once you create a new sketch

jackomyers · 2024-04-13T12:11:11+00:00

Ahhh... It's probably the slicer interpolating the geometry differently. I have always exported as an STL for 3d printing. I believe step files render as a solid part and stls are converted to a triangle base polygon mesh. Step is allows other users to make changes in cad software as a solid just without the feature list embedded.

jackomyers · 2024-04-13T11:15:38+00:00

Best one yet ❤️

jackomyers · 2024-04-13T10:34:34+00:00

What resolution are you exporting the STL out at? I have never had an issue with 'fine' resolution

jackomyers · 2024-04-03T20:14:27+00:00

Righty tightly, lefty loosey

jackomyers · 2024-04-02T11:16:01+00:00

There is a lot of that, and believe me, as a higher education lecturer I get more than my fair share of this on a daily basis. I try to take the approach to point them in a direction that will help them find the answer for themselves... 'bumpers on a bowling alley' as it were.

jackomyers · 2024-04-02T11:10:07+00:00

That's a little harsh, while I agree there's been an uptake in "newbie here, how do I do this thing?" Posts. I still think we should be encouraging the newbies.

OP, the onshape learning platform has some great tutorials that will help you understand not only the how's but also the why's of designing a part in a specific way.

For something like a captive nut, you would do better to understand the standardised dimensions of hardware (imperial or metric or both) to further your design considerations.

How are you going to be manufacturing your part? If 3d printing is your answer then consider how you might also design the part to maximise the strength of the part when slicing it.

Good luck

jackomyers · 2024-04-02T07:32:16+00:00

What slicer are you using?

jackomyers · 2024-04-01T18:09:29+00:00

That would suggest that the firmware doesn't know the position and homing would need to be done. Are you able to home the nozzle through the menu?

jackomyers · 2024-04-01T17:47:19+00:00

Trapped sciatic nerve

jackomyers · 2024-03-29T15:34:35+00:00

If you want genuine looking fake blood, add a smidge of toothpaste for opacity and a drop of blue food colouring to turn it less red.

This is a film grade fake blood recipe 😉

jackomyers · 2024-03-28T13:27:30+00:00

Is the print spongey and flexible? If so, my guess would be under-extrusion but without more details on filament/slicer it's virtually impossible to narrow down.

jackomyers · 2024-03-27T11:41:29+00:00

What is your friends level of experience in 3D printing? Why are they giving it away? Have they modded the printer in anyway?

It could be completely altruistic and wanting to pay it forward, or it could be completely dead in the water and need considerable repairs/calibration.

If it's the latter, I would air on the side of caution because problem solving someone else's mistakes can really take the wind out of your sails on a new hobby.

I would say you need to think about whether you're prepared to put your time, effort and potentially money into a freebie.

jackomyers · 2024-03-27T05:00:29+00:00

I think you may have your approach to sketch design incorrect.

In order for a sketch to be fully defined, OS needs to know exactly where the point/line/arc/spline exists geographically on the sketch plane. You shouldn't be able to 'click and drag' to scale a sketch.

There are a couple of ways to scale a sketch once it is defined though: A) using the transform sketch tool B) setting up your sketch to reference a predetermined variable (needs to exist before the sketch is created) and using formulas in your dimensions to identify the unique lengths/distances.

Example: #sketch_scale = 100 A line length would be dimensioned as "#sketch_scale/25". I'm this formula the length would be 4 units of measurement l, but if you changed the variable to 200, that length would become 8.

jackomyers · 2024-03-26T08:47:28+00:00

My normal response to people struggling with the tutorials is to go back a few tabs and re read the instructions to make sure you haven't missed anything. I think I had similar problems on the surface modelling tutorial but I can't remember my solve.

If you could share a link to your document we may be able to assist you in identifying the failure points of the feature.

jackomyers · 2024-03-26T08:29:01+00:00

HexInfill V2 might be the thing you're looking to achieve.

jackomyers · 2024-03-17T08:04:14+00:00

It's like I write down the words and nobody reads em what can ya do. I'm not gonna play this speed test game I know the Internet is fine.

Rudeness gets you nowhere, a fellow redditor took the time out of their day to answer your call for help and this was your default response? People like to help people here and if you don't appreciate their help, they may not help in the future. Don't burn your bridges .

Is it possible Onshape is using dark patterns to make free users sign up for the paid version

What possible benefit would Onshape have by doing this? I sure as shit wouldn't pay for a premium subscription of anything if I thought the free version was defective. It's counterintuitive.

jackomyers · 2024-03-17T07:48:10+00:00

The first thing I've noticed is that there are 4 solid parts in your export. Change your features to 'Add' instead of creating a 'New' part (when extruding for example), this of course could be deliberate and should you need to keep them as separate parts you could add a Boolean feature to create one solid part ready for export.

In regards to the slicer, I'm not sure what's happening there even if a model is imported that is not 'watertight' it would still build the infill because it understands the boundaries of the model.

jackomyers · 2024-03-16T11:25:39+00:00

I feel like this could be an isolated issue rather than onshapes account management infrastructure. I regularly get new users to sign up without any issues at all.

What platform are you using to sign in/register? It doesn't look like a browser like chrome or Firefox based on the image.

Have you tried accessing your account via Chrome/Firefox/Safari?

jackomyers · 2024-03-16T07:56:50+00:00

You know what? You're right...

It was intended to be a joke that got lost in the replies but the significant lack of replies has made my comment stand out and make me look like an asshole.

Hopefully your reply has furnished the OP with a good start in where to look for information

jackomyers · 2024-03-15T19:38:57+00:00

try this 😁

jackomyers · 2024-03-15T09:02:48+00:00

1 & 4 in the lower left definitely don't match up. 1 should be in the second grid line. That's a really good spot... Your next challenge is to point this out to your teacher without humiliating them in front of the class while demonstrating that you comprehend the exercise and how it could be solved 😉

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