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I'll do that, watching my spending as the economy is crap these days, tariffs snuffed 20% of my income last year.

Will do once I get a new desktop, worst case I can get another sub.

Looking at getting a workstation and if I do I want to transfer my sub over to that from my laptop. Is that possible, huge pain? Thanks, Ken

What kind of printer are you going to use? SLA, DLP, Polyjet, SLS, FDM? Each type have their advantages and disadvantages with materials available and feature size. In general character models and recently jewelry and dental use resin based SLA (laser based) or DLP (digital linear projector) to expose layers of photo reactive plastic. These types of printers offer the highest detail but the downside is the materials no matter how much the manufacturer claims are not very good for mechanical parts. SLS (selective laser sintering) will offer real usable parts from nylon to metals that are sometimes direct fused or melted together by a high power laser with a polymer carrier that is later burned off. These offer excellent detail and extremely good mechanical parts but are usually costly. Polyjets are an inkjet printer that sprays down a photo reactive resin along side a non photo reactive (support) resin and offer descent detail comparable to SLA and DLP but usually have poor edge quality. Their big advantage is the ability to print different material properties on the same part, ie flexible rubbery plastic along with hard plastic to simulate things like tooth brush handles with rubber grips and other products that would typically take additional steps to produce a prototype. In between the polyjet and fdm is the wax printers used in dental and jewelry that print 2 different waxes, one a high temperature melting point and the support wax a lower temp melting wax that is dissolved out after leaving a highly detailed smooth model. These are usually used for lost wax or investment casting. Lastly FDM (fusion deposit modeling) that is the most common printer out that uses a spool of plastic usually abs or pla and can be infused with fibers or powders such as bronze. They offer the lowest detail but provide cost effective mechanical parts and are great for gadgets and tooling fixtures. In the case of the medallions Rob and I worked on I used my sla printer and used the plastic part as a pattern for sand casting. I think we ultimately used obj format because the software I use to generate the g-code had problems with intersecting meshes and stl gave too many errors. Not a fault of AM but more a limitation in what is out there. After all that good reading, bottom line try obj if the software can import the model and if you have multiple parts that will be assembled then treat them as separate files. Autodesk has a program that is free called Meshmixer www.meshmixer.com that has some repair tools and lots of other features such as slicing, support generation. It wouldn't hurt to have to check the files you export out.

I have really really hated my desktop and after the last couple years been using a little dell 2:1. Though it is only a 4 core i5 it is incredible stable and snagged an hdmi adapter and got it rigged to my cintiq. Bang for the buck I think Dell makes a really solid machine especially as far as laptops go. They don't ship with SH@#$ ware installed and hardware wise are built well. Check their certified refurbs that have full warranty, some good deals there for precisions that are really nice. Their gaming series are also competitive.

Does bullet dynamics work with blob generator? Wonder if you could simulate liquids with it.

I am a bit rusty at splining but it all comes back. I don't want any compensation, AM community has been really good to me and it is a way I can try to return the favor. There is still a good amount of content that has been contributed already, anything there feel free to toss in the dvd. I don't know if other contributors feel the same but might be worth reaching out. It is a healthy start. For distribution, why not an iso on the company store?

I wouldn't mind making some props etc if you want to toss a disk together. Probably be nice if someone makes a to-do list.

HNY!

Yup that was it, all were off by default. good to go now thanks

I needed to make a reference image for some characters and when I imported some older models that use the old rigs I see the bones are assigned and weighted but I can't pose the characters. Just the bones move in the chor. Did something change that I missed? Thanks

Cool beanz, MerryXmas!

Time off is far more important for your health and sanity than mucking around some forum stuff. Been burning the clock here for far too long and finally ignoring customers that don't pay or pay extremely slow and using that unpaid time for myself. I realized that I am not a charitable organization after all :)

Nice work, that's a pretty slick printer. I still use my Form1+ here but Formlabs has discontinued parts for it forcing me to go over seas for tanks and found another supplier for resin. What would normally cost me approx. $240 or so for 1 tank and 1 liter of resin not cost me $115 for both. The resin I just ordered is from ApplyLabWork. You may want to see if they have a resin for your printer. I believe your printer falls in the class of a dlp printer.

That looks pretty cool. Thanks!

Cool, just curious. Thanks

Roll back to a version that apply decal planer works or is there a fix coming out soon? Thanks

When I apply a decal the program just quits. Possible my intel video can't handle it or is there a bug?

I think your right that Gigabyte is the problem. Seems they do things their own way and looks like my system is no longer supported. No more updates to resolve any issues. Luckily I have my little laptop to back me up till I sort things out.

I probably am unlucky and have a feeling Gigabytes support toward Win 7 machines is probably the issue. I never oc the machines, just run them with factory specs. The video card runs under 43C when pushed. The big disappointments with my gpu is this is my 3rd under warranty using Gigabytes drivers and bios The fact that I cannot use the latest drivers from AMD without scrambled screens or black screens is a major issue. I am extremely dissatisfied how Gigabyte chose to repair the last card rather than replace it and the refurbished card runs like crap. I was hoping they would give me a new card and I would have sold it on ebay for a good amount since they were selling for $800 or so. I could have put that towards an Nvidia maybe even a mid ranged Quadro and not have the hassle. As far as the motherboard goes, I have issues with the USB and in in particular usb drives and memory sticks where programs will not close out on them and write corrupted data. So far I lost quite a bit of $$$ on corrupted jobs and time to re-create. Again I have the latest bios for the machine as far as I can tell according to Gigabytes garbage updater. I never ran into any problems with Nvidia drivers and various brands of Nvidia cards where they were proprietary. An Asus, PNY or what ever all used and were compatible with drivers directly from Nvidia. I have no idea if this is unique with Gigabyte and their AMD line of gpu's

I have the latest bios for this system from Gigabyte. As far as the video card this is the 2nd one under warranty. First burned out in less than a year, this one was repaired instead of being replaced by Gigabyte and the performance on it is horrible compared to when I first got the rx480. I have the latest drivers from Gigabyte on it also and the latest bios for this from Gigabyte. I can't run the newest ones from AMD because I get trails, scrambled screen and black screens. For a machine that has so few hours on it I have to say AMD is junk. They let companies do their own thing with drivers and not always compatible with the ones from AMD!!! Maybe your just lucky on your machine but this is certainly the last AMD rig I will ever get.

Cool, looks like the headlamp has inverted normals making it transparent.

I would recommend an NVidia over AMD. AMD has horrid drivers. I have an RX 480 that has been rma'd twice. I find the AMD machine I have for a desktop to be too unstable for work. It is fine for gaming but I had issues with the motherboard and external drives on usb bus writing garbage and creating gobs of corrupted data. It could the drivers and the fact the machine has Win7 but in any case, last AMD product I'll own. I know Fuchur swears by AMD, no offense.

I ran AM with a few Quadros and AM found a desktop card or good gaming card does just as well. Workstation cards typically offer double precision which is not necessary for AM so you will never realize any difference. Get a half descent gaming card that runs cool and has good drivers like a 1070 or so, even a 1060 will do just fine. Would be nice if AM takes advantage of the real time ray trace down the road. That would be cool

Does your Macbook use Intel video? My laptop has Intel video, though I can access everything fine, when I try to move or dock menus their outline is not inline where they should be. Though Intel is getting much much better their older gpu's had always had quirks in some program.