Post AzF4HJU86SpwLXo64G by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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(DIR) Post #AzF3y29EL14T4fq25I by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-15T18:46:04Z
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@petrillic re: Send Cut Send... FYI... This was gonna be private mention, but maybe helpful to others...Thanks for the hints!Sigh, Inkscape is buggy as shit. Half my time working this out was battling it. I was assuming (...) that EXPORT would support all it's file types. Nope, it's only for exporting images. SAVE AS does EPS, which SCS accepts.You can SAVE AS formats that Inkscape later can't read! Oh fun!Inkscape can't actually save .DXF files, weird error reported. Web search reveals to be common. I sidestepped with EPS.SCS seems to be a great company. Their AI works! Of course this is a good application for one; a very narrow set of constraints. This is the first time I did not want to swear it one. It was succinct, minimal marketspeak and actually provided answers. Now, my errors were newbie basic, but still. Passed to a human, took 3 - 4 minutes, excellent service. Thanked profusely.The SCS interface is fairly easy, took a dozen upload-error-modify cycles to get right, markings around inserted hardware, etc, and it requires some attention to detail but all in all, pretty damn nice.I'll later post photos, but I'm making a two-piece chassis for my CP/M MP/M computer. First pass is to make the base, one copy, I'm sure to have clearance issues. Chassis is 5 x 8 inches, inch and a half tall, with slots and holes on front, swaged-in standoffs, and nuts on the side for screws to hold the lid on.Under 40 bucks!! For quantity one including shipping! Shit howdy.Thanks for mentioning them and the hints along the way. Should be here early next week too.
(DIR) Post #AzF4HJU86SpwLXo64G by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-15T18:49:31Z
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@petrillic Bummer about Inkscape! The feature set is fine, it just needs cleanup attention and it would be pretty great. Oh well.I will look at FreeCAD. Anything will be better than what I had to do to make this work.
(DIR) Post #AzFKuzYhCsmLObsvc8 by davebauerart@mastodon.social
2025-10-15T21:55:56Z
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@tomjennings @petrillic Last weekend at Catskill Mountain Maker Camp I was chatting with the guy at SCS that fixes the customer files noone else can figure out!
(DIR) Post #AzFi7bmrCLcWNcUfuy by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-16T02:15:59Z
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@davebauerart @petrillic Oh wow. That must be.... Interesting work! Trauma, even!
(DIR) Post #AzFiBZ4NFACt6tZcjg by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-16T02:16:41Z
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@davebauerart @petrillic That person must know more about the subject than anyone alive.
(DIR) Post #AzHRmwswLoOMmbNyb2 by davebauerart@mastodon.social
2025-10-16T22:22:21Z
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@tomjennings @petrillic Quite possibly! Definitely a curious and interesting individual.