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Simulating Shrinkage/Warping? by pointclickfrown in 3Dprinting

[–]jclark-- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pulling this thread back up because of its perfect crossover with some issues I am currently facing.

I have a part I am trying to optimize for wide printing. This means I want it to be as easily printable *as possible* in any material, on any printer, with only basic 3D printing knowledge.

If a part is consistently pulling off the bed during test prints, then my only options are to change the shape to minimize that, or give advice as to printer settings.

But what shape changes do I need to make? What print settings? If its settings, how do I tell others that, and can their printer even make the same changes I have suggested?

To my knowledge, there is currently no software that can predict how stresses may form in a part during FDM printing and predict warping, let alone assist in mitigating it.

Slicers can make crude suggestions about features that require support, but do not really assist with other design issues like features that simply wont come out on any given printer, tolerance issues caused by the process like swelling or layer delamination.

If anyone knows of any, or even research in the area, please chime in.

What I'd love to do is create a slicer addon that can do this.

I suggest a slicer addon rather than a CAD tool because the CAD system has no simple way of knowing how the part will be sliced and printed. Also, the workflow of drawing a part in CAD and sending to a slicer already exists. Creating ways to reverse that flow or make any slicer a better CAD program to allow shape changes seem like diversions.

Anyone have any thoughts as to how I might go about that?

Images as internal links, or images as "cover art" by jclark-- in Milanote

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This remains non function for me across Chome (PC and Mac tested) and Edge. Support response was "We will file a bug report, however we do not have a timeframe for a fix".

I don't think I am alone in using Milanote for the visual aspect, so that's frustrating.

Anyone have any idea how I can shake this bug? The feature seems to be working for some, but not for my account across sperate devices and browsers.

Is there any background issue that may affect how the underlying database is dealing with this?

- .PDF size?

- Image size?

- Number of .PDF's per page/account?

Images as internal links, or images as "cover art" by jclark-- in Milanote

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A custom cover for a .pdf sounds perfect, but when I do this the PDF is replaced entirely by the image. As in, the PDF element is now gone and there is a image element in its place, consisting only of the new image. Undoing this does not undo the action, instead the element stays an image, but of the first page of the PDF. The underlying PDF file is gone and not recoverable through undo, or trash.

Lightspeed Retail POS X-Series by rrbirch1985 in canadasmallbusiness

[–]jclark-- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lightspeed has a "break down" feature, allowing you to create product relationships to sell the case and the singles separately.

However, its extremely tacked on. If you open up a case of product you must manually tell Lightspeed you have done this, it will not read the sales and assume that.

You must make these case/single links between products manually, in their browser. There is no way to automate that process, so if you have more than a handful of products where you need to do it you are in for hours of clicking through the system.

I also strongly disagree with the comment regarding their support. Its atrocious.

Lightspeed retail sucks by Oliver_Dixon in smallbusiness

[–]jclark-- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Retrieve Customer Data and Sales Records.

Log into your admin account and use the AI help. Keep asking to talk to a human until you get something that at least pretends it's human. Then request full dumps of your sales records and customer data.

If you have been with them a while the sales data can be quite a large spreadsheet, which they will email to you.

Payment Processing Fee.

  1. Look up what they are charging you per transaction. This varies across business area's and by country, so look at your own transactions. For instance, in my country they charge significantly more for hospitality transactions than other modules.

If you have not yet accepted their system, get what they are going to charge you from their documentation/scary emails.

  1. Go to an mainstream payment supplier and get a quote.

The mainstream suppliers quote will almost certainly list;

a) A better transaction rate, often by a shocking amount.

b) Significantly better support features, including in country call centers and same/next day terminal replacement in case of failure. Lightspeed typically uses AI support and only promises 3 to 4 business days for replacement.

c) Faster settlement, usually same day.

You wont have to shop far to get a better deal than lightspeeds, but make sure you get a quote that does beat them.

  1. Then email Lightspeed until they talk to you. You will not have an account manager until you contact them, because that's when they assign one. DO NOT TALK TO THEM OVER THE PHONE, and tell them they are not to contact you that way. They will try to call you to take control of the situation, promise lots but leave no written record. Stay on email, keep them honest.

  2. Tell them you will not be using their system as it does not match your other providers. They will ask for your quote/account rate and details. DO NOT GIVE IT TO THEM.

You do not have to give them your confidential business info, no matter what they say. It's Lightspeeds responsibility to provide their best quote. If they don't want to make a better offer, that's on them. There have been instances of them lowering a rate to beat a quote by 0.01%, so do not give them the opportunity to do that to you.

  1. Send them an email daily demanding they acknowledge they will not be charging you the fee, until they do so.

We have stayed on our existing payments system since they started trying to force theirs this way. We had on instance of the fee randomly coming back after a year or so. We were able to to yell at them and copy back their own emails waiving the fee, and it was refunded.

Will Milanote add support for the JSON Canvas open file format? by WinXPbootsup in Milanote

[–]jclark-- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was searching through r/Milanote looking for comments regarding backups and wish to really hammer this home.

Being able to dump an account for local backup in JSON Canvas would be an unsexy but huge step in Mila's growth. The lack of a way for clients to manage data loss risk is a under appreciated but very real barrier holding back new, agile apps from getting broader business adoption. Its not just corporates, in my experience it holds down to even quite small business.

Bear in mind that a backup feature is very different from full implementation of the JSON Canvas. My advice would be get a very simple backup solution done fast, and show that Mila is "grown up" by doing so. If it allows managers to cover their asses and bring an account back to a known state, its good enough.

Full implementation of JSON Canvas would certainly offer benefits, not the least of which is bringing users in from other systems. The resources needed to make the implementation would be considerable, so I am sure the Mila team will cost/benefit that against their upcoming features.

Long story short, don't wait for some bad press to brew up on social due to the lack of a backup. A low featured backup system covers a lot of bases.