16 September 2024
Well . . . My skill keeps growing. I designed a printed a "Remote Box" and it is a little clunky. Now to work on version 2. It was designed in the for of a 4 bottle carton holder. <Remote box link> Version 2 is planned to have rounded corners. Something I wanted to do when I engineered it. I set up basic design in Adobe Illustrator, and used the Asset Export panel to make an OBJ file. The slicing software said it would open an obj file, but did it? Noooooooooooooo, as least not from issustrator. I had the basket and the base designed, the handle for the carton was tricky. I noticed that the slicing software would import png files, well it did but it didn't. The cut out for the handle wasn't in the import. Back to obj files, the method I used to get the handle piece was to make it seperately from the basket. In order to get everthing to export as a single object, I had to orient all the pieces with a top down view and group them. The base was on the bottom of the stacking order, then the basket. It didn't really matter where the handle would go, since it was taller than the other pieces.
That was it, the handle was created from a bar, the width of the basket dividers and extruded to 300 mm. WRONG! It had to be put down as a 300 x 125 mm block and extruded to the width of the basket dividers. That way, I could cut out the carring handle. The basket/base combo, and the handle (exported separate from the basket) were imported into Adobe Dimension. I have not used Dimension a lot, and I was unable to get the two pieces to line up to the object centers. OH, I should mention here, that when I create obj files from Illustrator, they are always 10% of the intended size. So in Dimension, I had to scale them up 10 times. I exported each part separately as newer and improved stl files. Why newer and improved? Because newer and improved could be opened by the slicing software. <smirk> I then imported both parts into said slicing software, and lined them up. Even though I tried to merge both pieces, both pieces were clearly separate from each other. (Think, think, think, idea) I should export project from slicing software and see if it is a combined single object when brought back into said slicing software. (shock, knock me over with a feather and pick me up off the floor) It worked, here's the link again for convenience. <Remote box link> I am totally pleased with the results, though the red pen is coming out to plan some revisions.
12 September 2024
I'm getting excited, less than 16 weeks left to the big event. I'm having very creative thoughts. Here's to being a maker for the rest of my life.
9 September 2024
I found a 3D model for a dip pen by "EagleEyeGuy" and had to print it. It doesn't seem to work well with fountain pen ink, runs all over the place. It does work better with acrylic ink. I need more time to work with it.
7 September 2024
trying to finish up another coloring book. i have some greeting card ideas to work on also.
4 September 2024
Shoulder hurts less, and creative thoughts are flowing.
19 August 2024
It's the 19th of August and 19 weeks left. It's amazing how numbers line up sometimes.
8 August 2024
Hurt my shoulder, I shall get through this.
3 August 2024
Getting there, working on Christmas cards, needs some tweaking.
27 July 2024
Need to relearn html. It's easy enough to learn, I just get rusty after a while.
24 July 2024
Life is still good. But politics is a bigger mess. (prayer) Dear God, I still know that you're in control, but what a bigger mess. Please straighten it out.(/prayer)
3 June 2024
Life is good. But politics is a mess. (prayer) Dear God, I know you're in control, but what a mess. Please straighten it out.(/prayer)
Well, it's been so long since I worked on this site, I'm out of what little practice I had with code. Give it 30 weeks, and I'll have plenty of time to fix that. I have decided to retire at the end of this year, the end of December. There will be plenety of time to re-learn coding, get more involved with church, make more artwork, and 65+ free education.
12 February 2024
Well, today I don't know what to say.
6 January 2024
I lost my parents in 2023, don't be sad, they are no longer suffering. Dad was 92, and had 184 birthdays. ( His actual birthdate was in dispute, my grandmother said it was on one side of midnight, the doctor said the other side. By the time the family figured out it was filed for the other side of midnight, the question became fix it and deal with the hassle of correcting or let it stand. It was allowed to stand. Mom was 84, but because of dementia, she had left us long ago. She had trouble remembering who we were, and didn't recognize us most of the time.
This year, I have some decisions to make. Hopefully, the rules don't change. There are indications that while all rules may not change, some are on the table.
5 October 2023
Today is strange. I've been working on a novelty font.