Now THAT'S one I should have tried. Probably slots in right between the big guys and the "B Team" I listed above." I think I left it off because I had a couple of other natively parametric commercial options that were a bit cheaper. I didn't factor in student editions for anything, as the angle I'm considering is a growth curve that includes the potential for small scale commercialization. They're a realistic option for many.
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To date, I've still got more prints that came from TinkerCAD than anything else, but once you decide you want more functionality, it's just not there. I do think the grouping (which can be quasi parametric in the way they preserve earlier steps until and unless you want to edit them) and alignment tools are more robust solutions than people think.
I noted OpenSCAD and its cousins in passing. I think they're a different beast altogether, with a whole universe of "this one can't natively do 'X'," and "that one doesn't play nice with my IDE." The main thing though, is that while I know enough about coding to follow an OpenSCAD or CADQuery "program," I don't really work that way in anything like an efficient manner. They're undoubtedly powerful and flexible in the right hands, though. Somebody else should write them all up. :-)
I tried it once, months ago, and it didn't click, really, but I could try it again. The main thing with Blender is the way it models. It doesn't do Boundary or Solid modeling, but instead models meshes that approximate solids. Some people will say that makes it "not CAD," and maybe they're right in a narrow sense, but specifically for 3d printing, every single solid you model will eventually be turned into a mesh before slicing, so if you are working with a mesh that's a higher resolution than you can print, you won't see the issues. I understand there are well-supported add-ons that add many of the tools necessary to make blender act like a direct-modeler for solids. I don't know if there are any that add the equivalent of a parametric tree or constraints, so I'll defer to others.
Knowing full well how much time I've spent on dead ends out of sheer morbid curiosity, I would say I don't think think it's a great idea to LEARN Blender to do mechanical style modeling, but if you also want to do 3D sculpting or you already know Blender, it could be a perfectly adequate tool for 3D printing. A rectangle, after all, is simply two triangles. :-)
Sounds like they specifically lingered on it a couple of times. This one looks like it's going to just kind of be a compressed version of the cartoon, which could be a lot worse, as we all know. Hopefully it's respectful and mostly consistent, and people who find they just need to know more can go back and watch the Nick series. Even if that leaves it sort of "slight" for those already invested, it will have value. Fingers crossed.
If you're not opposed to looking in on a Reddit thread, askhistorians hsa it pop up now and again. They have "flaired users," who, with few exceptions tend to be credentialed academics, typically younger Masters degree holders and/or PhD candidates (best I can tell), and with no love for the American right. Their general consensus is that the book is not "wrong," but it lacks context and is not very useful as history, and particularly not as someone's introduction to American history.
Discovery is almost more interesting as a meta-text at this point, though I think it takes more guff than it deserves. The tonal (and temporal) whiplash is a window into the creative process and audience feedback the churn of writers and shifting directives from Paramount.
Only one thing is constant: MICHAEL BURNHAM'S DRAMAWHISPERS!
The books are really good, but TBH it's not the end of the world if you don't catch them right away. For its milieu, the show is even better than the books are for theirs. There is the usual extra detail, deeper insight, and unlimited budget of the books, but the casting and performances really elevate the show, and a few characters (Drummer, Ashford, and Errinwright come to mind) come out of the adaptation process really well. People go on about how great it was that the authors were involved in the show, and that's true, but critically, they understood that a different medium needs slightly different things.
I'm not an audiobook person, but if you are, I understand the ones for The Expanse are absolutely top-notch.
Much of it, yes, but the real reason Qui-Gon died at the end is because he was exhausted from carrying the entire film on his back.
Liam Neeson had the gravitas and experience to do his own thing, and almost everything good about that movie involves him. McDiarmid too. The younger actors, including Ewan, and the bit players were almost universally meh to dreadful, and frankly Portman was probably the worst; her line readings in or out of the makeup were stilted and straight up amateurish. While he was given garbage to work with and wasn't some sort of prodigy who could elevate it, Jake Lloyd at least brought energy and authenticity. Lucas should have at least gone the ROTJ route and shadow-directed, but with a no-name "official" director who was good with actors. The story for Ep 6 is very iffy, but the performances themselves are fine, even with Ford sort of mailing it in; Marquand was able to turn that apathy into a certain bemused ennui.
A few stores, in my area it’s particularly clothing discounters, seem to have moved to that model, and as long as you plan your checkout areas even sort of halfway well, it’s a million times better.
And god what a sad death Fry’s had. It went from the bona fide nerd store to a disaster. Eventually the ones in Dallas-Fort Worth were just zombie husks riding out the leases and selling leftovers on consignment from the few manufacturers who couldn’t be bothered to come repossess the inventory after the store failed to pay their invoices.
From what I hear, applying the concepts in RT's fix is the biggest project for the FreeCAD dev team right now, so I'm hoping we're finally getting close to a version that's a little more robust. What other advantages does the RT fork have over the main branch for someone who's working with single parts or tiny assemblies?