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Robyn Willison  
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 More options Oct 6 2012, 6:45 am
From: Robyn Willison <ro...@robynspcs.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:16:01 +0930
Local: Sat, Oct 6 2012 6:46 am
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Hi

Has anyone heard back whether they are in the course or not?

Cheers

Robyn


 
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Steven Pickles  
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 More options Oct 6 2012, 7:39 am
From: Steven Pickles <thatpix...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:09:50 +0930
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Subject: Re: [HACK-ADL] Digital Fab Masterclass
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Not officially, but from what I hear, the number of applicants matched the
number of places well. So it sounds positive.

pix
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Cyberteque  
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:19:43 -0700 (PDT)
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Well I got an email saying I was in.
Does anyone know which CAD software is going to be used?

I'm not sure my ASUS eee 900 is going to cut it.
I can run and render in openSCAD, but this little screen can be a bitch!

Andrew


 
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Steven Pickles  
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 More options Oct 11 2012, 1:31 am
From: Steven Pickles <thatpix...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:01:31 +1030
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Subject: Re: [HACK-ADL] Re: Digital Fab Masterclass
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Email Karen about this, they might have a spare laptop you can use. What
answer did you give them about using your own laptop?

pix

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Andrew Helgeson  
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 More options Oct 11 2012, 2:27 am
From: Andrew Helgeson <cyberte...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:57:01 +0930
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I didn't, she asked me in the email, I mentioned I only have a netbook.

openSCAD works well, so far, on this machine.

any idea what software we are going to use?

Andrew

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Steven Pickles  
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 More options Oct 11 2012, 6:54 am
From: Steven Pickles <thatpix...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:24:23 +1030
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Subject: Re: [HACK-ADL] Re: Digital Fab Masterclass
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It sounds like Zoz prefers to use SketchUp, as it's what he uses to teach
the class at MIT.

I just poked into running it in Wine and it's not really usable (lots of
screen blackouts and other rendering bugs).

pix

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Andrew Helgeson  
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 More options Oct 11 2012, 8:14 am
From: Andrew Helgeson <cyberte...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:44:13 +0930
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ok, I'll have to brush up on my sketchup skills then.
messed about with it a bit, it can be a "tad" frustrating!

if I want to print something on your huxley, what format/software should i
be using?

Andrew

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Steven Pickles  
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 More options Oct 11 2012, 8:57 am
From: Steven Pickles <thatpix...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:27:32 +1030
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anything that produces an stl. for engineering-style models i prefer
openscad.

pix

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Steven Pickles  
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 More options Oct 14 2012, 6:12 pm
From: Steven Pickles <thatpix...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:42:15 +1030
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Subject: Re: [HACK-ADL] Re: Digital Fab Masterclass
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In case I put anyone off trying Sketchup in Wine, I have now managed to get
it working for me. I was having the problem that most of the 'working area'
would black out frequently when switching tools, only to reappear during an
action like rotating the scene. It was vaguely useable if you kept a finger
covering the middle mouse button read to do lots of restorative rotations
of the scene. This might be an Intel graphics specific thing. Apparently
NVidia graphics (using the official NVidia driver) works well.

I installed Sketchup with winetricks:

apt-get install winetricks
winetricks sketchup

At this point I needed to fix a registry setting:

export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/sketchup"
cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c
wine regedit - <<<__EOF__
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\X11 Driver]
ClientSideGraphics="N"
__EOF__

Running a winetricks installed app is a bit clumsy:

export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/sketchup"
cd $WINEPREFIX/drive_c
wine cmd /c run-sketchup.bat

This page has some tips about making some shortcuts for running winetricks
apps

https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/wiki/CommandlineTips
https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/wiki/RunningInstalledApps

pix

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Andrew Helgeson  
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 More options Oct 14 2012, 9:37 pm
From: Andrew Helgeson <cyberte...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:07:27 +0930
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Subject: Re: [HACK-ADL] Re: Digital Fab Masterclass
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Even under 'Doze, SketchUp and openSCAD give warning messages when you
start.
Still haven't found anything that doesn't work though.

Andrew

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Steven Pickles  
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 More options Oct 14 2012, 9:44 pm
From: Steven Pickles <thatpix...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:14:39 +1030
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Subject: Re: [HACK-ADL] Re: Digital Fab Masterclass
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The biggest problem I've run in to with openSCAD on lower spec machines is
that the in-GPU CSG stuff doesn't work. This means that your quick preview
needs to use the fallback "thrown together" rendering method which becomes
less useful as your models start to use more complicated CSG operations.
You can always hit F6 to bake a real mesh and display that, but on a low
spec machine it can be quite time consuming, especially when slicing up
imported STLs.

pix

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