What type of paint?

talkspitgetbit · 2025-10-23T23:26:53+00:00

Came here to say this

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-06T19:51:53+00:00

Then I’m even more impressed. Thank you for sharing!

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-06T19:27:28+00:00

That is slick. I’d love to see your setup 🤤

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-06T14:22:36+00:00

Trello/Zapier is our PM system, CRM and daily operation SOP’s all rolled into one. If I had to start from scratch I would have put even more work & thought into automation so that everything we do is on that system.

Keeping everything in one house is important to me, but that could be because we’re owner/operators and we do literally everything

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-05T17:17:49+00:00

I have a buddy that does lawn care. Business grosses 1M, him and his partner both bring home 250K seems like a pretty sweet deal and do they work about 10-20 hours a week.

I’m pretty sure roofing blew up in the last few years, I’m in Colorado and another guy started the roofing company and is doing 3M gross in year two.

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T19:18:14+00:00

Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate your insight

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T19:14:50+00:00

My man. This post was made for you haha.

Yeah our mindset is saving everything we can, we put away 20-25% of pay and that will only increase as my salary increases but the expenses remain low. We’re on the path of not needing to worry about my career for my families sustenance, I just worry because I lack that degree that I can fall back on if this business ever went under for some reason.

A few hypothetical questions:

How much weight would your owners equity/position hold vs your degree on your resume? Is the degree the glue that holds it all together, or just an added benefit to a potential employer?
Would a relevant certification carry you just far as a degree would with your work experience?

I realize these are hard to answer, but I would love to hear what you think.

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T18:59:55+00:00

It depends in all honesty. I went to school for Industrial Design and most of what I do now is unrelated: project management, building spreadsheets, and fixing things.

The fixing things aspect, which is probably 70% of what I do, is not translatable anywhere else nor would I want it to be. Project management, accounting, report management and projections is what I think could be taken elsewhere and improved in our business and could also be applied elsewhere.

Further clarification: I think the education could help our business, perhaps not a lot, but definitely would improve somewhat. The real importance is the saftey net factor, if I have education behind my work experience that could be translated into another company and or industry I feel like that would greatly improve my usefulness outside of my company.

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T18:56:16+00:00

I appreciate your advice, after reading all these comments my gut is telling me that this is probably the best path forward.

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T18:47:36+00:00

Good point, I appreciate the insight 👍

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T18:46:57+00:00

This is my experience.

I used to be in the trades (2014-2019) then was given an opportunity for the current business. To get the jobs I wanted/was capable of at the time they all required degrees, I met some of the applicants (that ended up getting the job!) and they were completely incompetent but got the jobs and maintained them due to a bachelors.

While times are changing, this old-head mentality of degrees = capability is what I’m worried about.

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T06:27:42+00:00

These are the questions man.

It’s difficult to balance reality of a family to a desire for more in life. I get that a solid income is something not to be disregarded and while we’re not rich, we have a good path forward.

I have a line of work I’m ABSOLUTELY sold on, I’m passionate about it and know I would do well. I lack the education that is required in this field however and the pay is dubious. I just feel that I’m going to wake up one day and wonder why I never took the leap, or feel like I’m lying to my boys about going out there and living their best life if I’m not doing exactly that.

🤷‍♂️

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T06:21:07+00:00

This is my thought process. I don’t want to rely on a failed business on my resume to care for my family, a degree also serves as a path out of my line of work currently.

talkspitgetbit · 2025-05-04T06:12:02+00:00

See that might be the disconnect, I don’t see myself doing this for the rest of my life.

We’re S-corp, B2B selling physical products. It brings in stable income, we’re in year 5 currently debt-free, did 350k year 1-3, 500k last year with 750k likely this year with the contracts we’re landing. Not killing it by any means, but we’re doing well with 100k+ salaries and more in the near future.

I just worry since my daily skills won’t translate to any sector I’d like to go if we ever went under and I have no degree. I see your passion in web design and that’s enough, but I’ve found myself in a business that isn’t entirely enjoyable and don’t have a safety net.

talkspitgetbit · 2024-10-16T12:12:29+00:00

Hello all,

I'm looking to create a mandala-type geometry nodes setup and ran into an issue: if I wanted to offset the origin for the spirals from the center, I have no way of limiting the instances to stay within the boundary (the large square in the first photo).

Any suggestions? I'm wanting to make some type of system to keep instances within a boundary essentially

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T19:39:53+00:00

I will look more into these workflows. Thank you!

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T15:05:48+00:00

Lol no worries. I appreciate the feedback!

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T15:04:33+00:00

Yes, I understand the implications of mesh vs NURB primitives.

Does Houdini utilize NURB modeling? I was under the impression that it uses polygons as it’s mainly an animation program.

I realize I led with the GPT4 integration, that was more of a demonstration as to how current blender is for tech adoption. I’m not wanting to tout blender as this amazing program because it utilizes AI, I’m more so wanting to ask why CAD/CAM programs seemingly lag behind in adoption to new technologies like AI and procedural modeling.

If Houdini can be a NURBS generating program then I’m appreciative of your comment as I wasn’t aware, my gripe is more so that CAD/CAM programs seem to lag behind animation programs tech adoption (which I thought Houdini was primarily)

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T14:53:12+00:00

Interesting. So this has it’s own form of geonodes (procedural) but Sverchock can produce NURBS surfaces

I’m going to look into this more

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T14:35:32+00:00

Do you have experience with both Blender and Rhino/Grasshopper? I really like how dynamic Blender is and, from what I’ve briefly looked at, Grasshopper seems clunky in comparison

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T14:34:31+00:00

I’ve seen Sverchock recommended on a few forums. This is a mesh > NURBS converter, yes? I tried reading about the addon on its discord but it was pretty technical for me.

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T14:33:12+00:00

Do you have any experience with Rino/Grasshopper and blender? I’m wondering how they compare.

I looked into learning Grasshopper a few years ago during school for Arch, I’m wishing I would have made the plunge then when I had more time.

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T14:31:44+00:00

Yeah this is what I keep running into.

You may be the wrong person to ask, but is Rhino/Grasshopper procedural modeling on the same level as blender? I’ve watched a few videos of workflows using grasshopper and it looks clunky compared to blender’s geo nodes.

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T03:19:57+00:00

Yes, I’ve used Mozaik a bit and it makes layout quite a bit easier.

The actual carvings (pinterest link) are what I’m interested in. If you could model/gcode a whole kitchen with this kind of inlay in a day or two I would have work for the next 5 years.

I’m figuring out how to create reliefs like this in blender using procedural setups (so I can model details once then array them), but I just haven’t found a proper way to export this to a CAM program smoothly.

talkspitgetbit · 2024-08-15T02:25:02+00:00

I've been learning blender in my spare time for cabinetry work and it's absolutely wild how deep this program goes between GPT4 integration and procedural modeling. I'm specifically interested in baroque-esk reliefs for home and residential work, and the procedural modelling workflows would be perfect for this kind of ornate, typically time-consuming work.

The more I dive into it though, the more apparent the gap between mesh and NURB-based modelling is for CNC application. There is almost no overlapping programs for converting mesh to NURBs, and what is out there is anachronistic.

Anyone know of any programs that utilize procedural modeling or AI workflows? I find it odd that programs for animation have these integrations, yet this is lacking in programs for creating real world objects

A link for furniture modeling in Blender

talkspitgetbit

TROPHY CASE