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Re: What is the 3MF File Format for 3D Printing?

burhop — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:30:24 -0000

3MF is a great format but I would have liked you to have looked into some of the problems (maybe a future article?) For example, if you export a 3MF file with beam lattices from your favorite serious design tool, there is a good chance the slicer (e.g. CURA, Simplify3D) won't load them. You have to go back and turn off 3MF options that your slicer doesn't support or just use STL. Other 3MF extensions are having the same adoption issues despite being available for years.

Re: A better way to describe technical roles

burhop — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:42:15 -0000

Haha! I hadn't read that article. Thanks for a laugh! Titles are silly little things.

Seriously, I do like your differentiation between activities and professions.

Mark - Officially a "research scientist", technically a "mechanical engineer", really a software developer, and artistically a total loser... but I manage.

Re: Q&A: Does Water Really Speed Up Weight Loss?

burhop — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 17:53:19 -0000

Your body is at 98.6 and so is the water so there is no net heat exchange. There is no (significant) additional energy spent maintaining the water at that temperature.

Re: The 100 Day Project. It's All About the Process.

burhop — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 20:17:15 -0000

With 100 days, I'm pretty sure I could do something cool enough that someone would pay me to do it again for 100 days :-)

and so on and so on and so on!

Re: Q&A: Does Water Really Speed Up Weight Loss?

burhop — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:43:14 -0000

While this is technically correct, 1 food Calorie is the energy to raise 1Kg of water 1 degree C. In US terms, 1KG is water is 4.23 cups of water. If you raise that water by 10 degrees, it is only takes 10 calories.

Re: Onshape Comes Out Swinging, Changes MCAD Pricing Forever

burhop — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:45:15 -0000

Oh, I see what you did there:

http://t.co/SajNmJMnne

Re: Onshape Comes Out Swinging, Changes MCAD Pricing Forever

burhop — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 18:22:02 -0000

Adam, put in a word for me! Tell them I'll start my blog up again (i'm still in contact with my 3 readers). I'll do a demo project. Just get them to approve my email for access! I want to play!

Re: The role of product lifecycle in open source hardware

burhop — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:50:45 -0000

You are right, controlling of IP (or not) is the key point.

I just bet that in the future, it won't be so much a choice but a requirement to work with non-controlled IP. Its pretty hard to build serious software without some opensource component under the cover. Will product development follow the same path?

Re: The role of product lifecycle in open source hardware

burhop — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:23:05 -0000

Yep. Something to watch. Software benefits from being very cheap to implement - you just need a computer and a compiler to make it.

Hardware has been more costly. Maybe you can do some woodworking but metal and electronics would cost you a lot. Its fun to see the makers pushing down the cost barrier to low cost manufacturing. Could PLM (much like its software cousin, source code management) be far behind?

Re: Voxel8 Announces Jaw-Dropping Electronics 3D Printer

burhop — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:47:05 -0000

I had a chance to see the printer and talk to the people at CES. I was pretty impressed by what you could do and the Autodesk software looks like a nice addition. The people seemed sharp so I'm looking forward to watching what they do going forward.

Re: We Got Up Close and Personal With Local Motors' 3D Printed Car

burhop — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:58:45 -0000

I'm curious about that too. It looks pretty thick and I bet it was over engineered to be sure it didn't break :-)

Re: We Got Up Close and Personal With Local Motors' 3D Printed Car

burhop — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:58:57 -0000

Glad you got some pics, Simon. While I think we all know this is just a prototype and a bit of marketing, its cool to see it actually be done with additive manufacturing in the automotive space.
What is kind of interesting is that there were about 200 initial entries for the design. Assuming these were all set up correctly for 3D printing, you could print 200 different cars for the same manufacturing cost of printing 200 Strati.
That takes automotive customization to a whole new level.

Re: Will future PLM order parts for makers?

burhop — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:38:08 -0000

My first reaction here was that you know PLM pretty well but you have gone too far. You have a hammer so every problem now looks like a nail.

Then I realized the fault was mine. I see "PLM" and think of the business domain, not the words... "Product Lifecycle Management". Maker me that works 2 days a week and 7-10 at night is generating a lot of product data. I have CAD files and their resulting STL files for my 3D printer, Arduno sketches for THREE different types of arduinos and a Pi, C++ and C# source code for mobile devices apps. I've even helping a friend with his Kickstarter project. There are bins of resistors, wires and bread boards all of which I need to manage and order if supplies get low. Collaboration exists but is poor going though github, Microsoft forums, vendor forums, and Facebook chat.

I definitely need some product lifecycle management in my life.

Re: Scott Wertel – PE

burhop — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:20:14 -0000

What? You didn't ask him about how he can kill a man one finger while playing the drums with the other nine? I think you are going to have to do a part 2.

Re: Fish3d: A New Touch-sensitive, Interactive Modeling Environment

burhop — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:22:08 -0000

Like you noted...amazing material.

Re: Fish3d: A New Touch-sensitive, Interactive Modeling Environment

burhop — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:32:41 -0000

Innovation often comes form strange ideas like this. I have a friend that is working on a 3DPrinter using this technology. It turns out this material becomes extremely strong when under the right laser based heating. He used an electrical current to stimulate Hag fish slime production along the X, Y, and Z axis. His only problem has been that the laser strapped to the head of the Z hag fish keeps sliding off.

Re: Airless and Bulletproof Tires Being Introduced in New Polaris ATV Design

burhop — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:57:12 -0000

The Michelin video is pretty cool too. I'm guessing the problem with stuff getting in the wheels just doesn't happen with all the flexing and bouncing.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: 3D Printed Gravity Screw

burhop — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:15:52 -0000

Ha! Just found this :-)

Re: 3DSync

burhop — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 12:48:28 -0000

Nice post Jeff. Glad you took some time to dig into it.

Re: TransMagic: A Secret to Enabling Direct Modeling?

burhop — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:45:20 -0000

I think one point of confusion here is that analytics can be represented as NURBs .That is, in the VENN diagram of geometry, analytics is a circle inside the NURBS circle.

Re: 3D Printing Enthusiasm — A Day at The TCT Show

burhop — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:37:59 -0000

Kevin it at least looks like you are having a good time :-)

What did you see there? Anything look interesting?

Re: 3D Printing Enthusiasm — A Day at The TCT Show

burhop — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:40:41 -0000

I usually don't comment but all the writing at least deserves a shout out! Thanks for all the great information, Rachel.

Re: Maker Faire New York: A Visual Journal (Part I: Today’s Maker Scene)

burhop — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 14:27:36 -0000

Simon, thanks for the pics! I got to the ardunio ones and thought, where is the pi... then I saw the "pi was around back" :-)

For my designer friends with kids, I don't think there is a better place to take them to get them excited about what they might be able to do with there future.

Re: The MakerBot Experience: MakerBot Expands to Open Mini-Stores in Microsoft Retail Locations

burhop — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:40:35 -0000

I don't think the maintenance is quite "easy", at least compared to other office equipment. Sometimes you get clogs, the machine needs to be lubricated, you have to diagnose warping/sticking problems etc.

Anyone good with tools can handle this but do you want your high paid engineer to be worrying about this? I'd be curious how people in these shops you mentioned deal with these day to day issues.

Re: The MakerBot Experience: MakerBot Expands to Open Mini-Stores in Microsoft Retail Locations

burhop — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 12:23:19 -0000

The Makerbot rules for makers and hobbyists but I keep seeing stories about it popping into all kinds of new places.

Are any engineers and designers here using it for real work? How did you justify getting it? How do you handle maintenance?