Re: Net Blocker Pro
Harold Yengo
Please don't get mad at me, but I think documentation of CURA does not meet any standards as I cannot find any comprehensive manual, which is bad. Also adding new features to software simply calls for a clear description if you do not want users to think that you don't respect their lifetime they have to invest to understand the new feature without help from the manufacturer. As I am used to self learn, I have tried for some hours to find a solution - wasted hours stolen from my life and my familiy...
First time I got this ominous cube on the screen now. A little bit weird behaviour, sometimes it disappears again, when I klick on it, sometime I can move it around and resize it. Seems to be an elaborate feature, especially when you work around round or spheric shapes. I'll try more, before I complain...
Have to say Support Blocker is not very intuitive and usable. Since Cura is generating the support structures, seems as if, at the very least, cura could list all the individual structures its has generated and one could pick through the various structures as it highlights them in the model and turn them on/off. The cube thing is annoying and not very user friendly....one thing is once I create one cube for an area, I want to be able to elongate it on two other axis to block out support but can't do that with the scale function. Can't even copy that cube but have to to creating more cubes and scaling them as well...what a tedious pain!
Unfortunately, step A is required "because of how Cura is built". You will notice that all tools in the sidebar (except from the Open button, which is not actually in the toolbar) get disabled when there is no selection.
it would be sweet if you could drag the extent of the block from either end and drag it in that direction, instead you have to "scale" it which makes it grow or shrink on both or all planes... makes it hard to position accurately.
I was having some troubles getting support blocker to work as well (which led me to this forum). However, through some experimentation and following the directions here, I have some additional advice for those still having issues. To be as clear as possible, here are my steps to use support blocker (with bold instructions for things that I was having trouble understanding the most):
1) Click on your model to select the model for which you want to block some/all supports. (You must activate/select the model first, in order to activate tools on the sidebar.)
2) Click to select the "Support Blocker" tool on the sidebar
3) Click on the model in the area you want to block support. (You must click on the model itself, not just on the empty buildplate.)
4) With support blocker tool still selected on the sidebar, click the gray box that appears to select the "blocker object". (This will select/highlight the "blocker object" and deselect the object model.)
5) Click on the move tool on the sidebar to move the gray "blocker object" around. (This is done the same was as moving around the model, only now the blocker object is what will move).
6) Click on the scale tool on the sidebar to resize the "blocker object". (As above, this is the same process as scaling a model.) If you do not want to scale in all planes, uncheck the "Uniform Scaling" checkbox, and you can scale in only one direction.
In Cura 3.6 (waiting for IT to install newest version), I carefully place and scale Support Blockers but they are not taken into account! It makes no difference in the build preview, there's support everywhere, through the Support Blockers as well.
It seems that this expansion is not aware of being completely separated from the rest of the support when there is a feature needing support on one side of a wall and nothing on the other side. It seems CuraEngine expands the footprint and never looks back.
I've used the support blocker but beware sometimes it doesn't always work as expected. Recommend doing a preview or else you could waste a lot of high priced PVA. For example, I cubed around two tiny holes running horizontal through the top of the part and it turned the ENTIRE PART into ALL PVA support material even below and outside the support blocker cubes.
My other gripe is the getting the initial support cube to appear on the screen. Once its there, your "over the hump" & it behaves the same as the scale and move. Clicking enough combinations of the icon, part, or build area and you'll figure it out.
The name support blocker is a bit of a misnomer. What it actually does is mark a certain area as "Don't start generating support here".
Although this might appear to be a small semantic difference, it does matter quite a bit, especially for PVA. By default, the horizontal expansion for support is set to 3 mm. This means that all places where it starts to generate support get an extra 3 mm of support on all sides. This is done because you want a certain min amount of PVA support per layer, since it burns / breaks off really fast. By ensuring a min amount of filament per layer, you can prevent most of these issues.
A support blocker also doesn't say "don't print any support in this area". So there is that as well.
Thank you for your help.
I checked the 4748699 you reported, it's been over a year now and kaspersky hasn't resolved anything about the youtube ad blocker. this is a shame to use third party extensions, i find that horrible. thanks more for the help, I'll be here waiting for this Youtube Ad blocker.
I'm saying that Kaspersky doesn't develop an ad blocker for youtube, every time I put it to watch a video or listen to a song, the ad always appears at the beginning of the video.
I know there are several extensions that can remove this type of advertisement, but it would be perfect if Kaspersky had this tool to do this, since I would feel much safer than these extensions that several developers create around the internet.
I am hoping someone can help/has had this strange issue themselves. We are currently on CRM 2013 Spring Release in the cloud. We access CRM using Chrome version 40. We have 180 plus users across sites and currently 30 in my site.
We have 1 user (only 1), who intermittently gets the Chrome Popup Blocker message when they try to add an appointment from an activity Sub Grid on the Contact Form. The thing is we have allowed pop ups from CRM, and added the correct URLs to the various Allow settings. What seems strange is it will work fine for a number of hours, then suddenly, all he gets is the message. Restart Chrome and it goes away sometimes for a minute or two, sometimes for hours. He is only using Chrome for CRM no other browsing.
The message reads: A Microsoft Dynamics CRM window was unable to open, and may have been blocked by a pop-up blocker. Please add this Microsoft Dynamics CRM server to the list of sites your pop-up blocker allows to open new windows:ORG.crm4.dynamics.com
We found the issue, it was happening when the user had moved away from their main window. For example, opened up Chrome, added an appointment (which open a 2nd window), they added their note, but then used the 2nd window to go back to their dashboard and accounts. Because they had 2 windows open they then where closing the first. The second time they add an appointment it was from this 2nd window which opened up a 3rd. For some reason Chrome then does not allow the pop ups. I think it is because it is a window of a window.
We are experiencing the EXACT same issue - just one user has this happen to her when she tries to add activities from a subgrid. She uses chrome, but so do I. We have gone to the browser pop-up settings and made an exception for CRM (I have this too) - but it still doesn't work for her. And same issue. Sometimes it works fine, but once it starts popping up - nothing stops it unless she does a restart, and then it will work for a couple activities and start up again.
Thank you for the reply, however we have tried all this. We have all the fields and URLs in the various expection lists. The issue is, it works fine then every now then, Chrome has a paddy and says No. :-)
4) Under Pop-ups, click Manage Exceptions. In the Hostname Pattern box, type the URL that you use to access Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Your Microsoft Dynamics CRM URL will end in "dynamics.com". In the Behavior drop-down list, select Allow.
I actually haven't re-created this tool/code to create these more artist friendly light-blockers for Solaris.
Although might be on my list to do in the near future.
TBH, might be worth just using geo cards instead.
Yeah exactly, geometry planes that don't contribute to the scene only casting shadows.
Can add ramp material to them to adjust opacity falloffs if needed and also do light-linking so they only impact certain lights.
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