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https://xkcd.com/605

Bud Clark for the win.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Expose_Yourself_to_Art.jpeg

I’ve heard his segments get rebroadcast on Russian TV fairly often.

Honestly what the homework is probably looking for is that it’s equivalent to “B or not A.” But yeah.

Doesn’t the “missed step detection” on the Prusa printers already achieve a lot of that? I think it monitors the current to the motor and flags any abnormal behavior, without needing extra hardware on the motor.

That’s not to knock the value of positional feedback, which is clearly superior, but just to say that I don’t think this idea has been entirely neglected.

Reminds me of Javert.

https://i.imgur.com/H4sq6h8.gif

You know that the other two words also exist though, right? Like, you can effect change in an organization, and there can be something strange in the affect of a psychopath. So there’s a verb “to effect” and a noun “affect” (although here the pronunciation is different–the accent is on the first syllable). It’s true that the most common usages follow the rules you’re laying out, but it genuinely is an oversimplification.

Oh, I literally misread it as OpenSCAD. Laughing at my stupid brain right now.

I’d say it’s more like Premiere vs ffmpeg.

https://youtu.be/Reruwp_Fs3Y?si=YM9HhBiwGh3G2zFT

I wouldn’t really call it a favorite, but I definitely ended up liking Nier: Automata pretty well after bouncing off it really hard when trying it at a friend’s house. That’s because we were trying from the start, and it starts with a section that’s about half an hour long, with only two checkpoints, vastly harder than anything else in the game, and in which the first half isn’t even the same genre as the rest of the game. It’s seriously one of the worst intros I can think of in a video game. The rest of the game is, y’know, a pretty good third-person action RPG.

The timeline should be at the bottom of the editor window, if you’re in the default design workspace. If you started in the mesh editor workspace then “design history” might be turned off, in which case you wouldn’t have a timeline. It looks like this:

https://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/ENU/Fusion-Assemble/images/animation/timeline-groups.gif

If some of the icons are highlighted in yellow, those have errors, so, things like broken projection links, or missing objects for some operations. You can usually fix those and patch things up.

Edit: oh, sorry, just realized you were working from someone else’s file. That might not have design history turned on. The person who told you how to edit the extrusion operation has the right idea.

Did you get any warnings or errors when you changed the parameters? Are any of the elements in your timeline highlighted in yellow?

Fair enough, I only got in to the hobby around 2015. But site issues were another reason that a lot of folks migrated to printables recently, so I do think it’s possible that’s part of what Fogle was referring to.

FWIW though, I suspect that a lot of the folks here in the Fediverse do actually care about open source, open standards, and the value in defending truly public resources.

Well, also just that the site had kind of deteriorated from lack of maintenance–the search didn’t work (you had to use Google with site:thingiverse.com), model pages were incredibly slow to load, etc. They’ve fixed a lot of that recently, but for a year or so it seemed borderline unusable.

Could still be temperature if the thermistors on e printers read differently–that is, the same setting doesn’t necessarily work out to the same physical temperature on two printers, even if they’re the same model, because the thermistors vary. My suspicion would be that you’re printing a little hot, and the filament is contracting after it’s extruded. On the first few layers it can’t shrink much because of all the material in the middle, but on the vase mode layers there’s nothing preventing it.

Another possibility is that your overlap percentage between your infill and perimeters is too high. This leads to something that basically is overextrusion, but it’s usually visible as more of a ripple.

A third possibility is that it’s just the filament.

It also doesn’t with with PLA and ABS. Same issue, they won’t stick together well.

And when you say “laser or printer” here, are you referring to a 2d printer, or a 3d printer?

The questions are because, fundamentally, a wireframe image like the one you linked is just a different way of rendering the same file. So if what you want is literally an image like this, then there are tools to do that, which will depend a bit on what operating system you’re using. Blender, as mentioned in another comment, is one such option.

If, on the other hand, what you want is a 3d printable structure that resembles a wireframe rendering of the object, that’s a more complicated task. The STL file just lists the triangles that make up the surface of the object; in order to make a solid structure that resembles this, you’d need to create a solid (e.g. a cylinder, maybe with balls at the ends) for every edge in the file (3n / 2 edges for n triangles, since every edge in a properly printable [“manifold”] STL is shared by two triangles) and then takes a boolean union of all of them. I don’t think a tool to do this exists currently, as it’s a rather specialized need, but it wouldn’t be too hard to throw together a python script that could take an STL file and generate an OpenSCAD script that you could then render with OpenSCAD to get the STL.

Good sci fi usually isn’t about the future, aliens, etc. It’s about the present, but portrayed in a strange way so as to bypass your existing preconceptions about the situation, so you can look at it with fresh eyes.

Certainly! Here’s how this might be phrased in a more casual manner if it appeared as a comment on a web forum: “lol git gud noob jk”