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Quick note on how I design these #NES controller breakout PCBs. I've not made a "footprint" that is natively understood by #Fritzing or other software as a part, what I'm doing is exporting the vector drawings from my 3D model to SVG (for other users of old versions of #Rhino3D, you will want to install SaveAsSVG: https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/save-scalable-vector-graphics), adding that as an image within Fritzing, and carefully aligning headers and other holes to that image.

A screenshot from 3D modelling program Rhino 3D, where the model of a Nintendo controller socket is shown on screen. Next to that model is a box with a flattened view of the socket, showing just the outline and where the pins go. Accompanying it is the text "19mm pitch", indicating that there is a 19mm distance from the centre of one socket to the centre of the next, for alignment purposes.

A screenshot from circuit board design program Fritzing, showing the dual socket design from the first image on this post imported and placed next to a circuit board.

That feeling when you import a DWG and the text looks like this 😑
#CAD #rhino3D

A screenshot showing text in a DWG file that’s actually just made up of hundreds of polygons instead of text objects

🌘 草蜢程式設計入門 – Brendan Harmon
➤ 利用演算法建模幾何圖形
✤ https://baharmon.github.io/basics
本文介紹了視覺程式設計介面「草蜢」（Grasshopper），它用於Rhino 3D建模軟體中。草蜢允許設計師透過演算法生成複雜幾何圖形，並快速創建替代設計方案。文章涵蓋了點、線、多段線、曲線和曲面的建模基礎，並說明如何利用滑桿、面板、以及Rhino中繪製的幾何圖形來定義這些基本元素。此外，也介紹瞭如何使用各種組件來建構更複雜的幾何形狀，例如通過插值曲線和曲面。
+ 這篇文章對初學者來說非常友善，清楚地解釋了草蜢的基本概念和操作流程。
+ 我一直想學草蜢，這篇文章讓我對它更有興趣了，迫不及待想開始嘗試！
#數位設計 #程式設計 #Rhino3D #草蜢

Huh, I think #Rhino3D's "Display modes" will do what I want: https://www.rhino3d.com/features/display/display-modes/

Looks like they're even (almost) all in my super old version of Rhino, so all I'll have to do is model the plugs and sockets to a reasonable degree of accuracy, SetDisplayMode to something pretty, then save as an image and label the pins separately.

I'm also liking Ghosted mode for showing the internal structure of a complex shape rather than getting it from multiple angles, too.

A screenshot from 3D modelling program Rhino, showing a small but complex socket for an electrical plug. It has seven pins in two rows of four and three, with an angled wall around where an eighth pin might fit. The model is semi transparent and shows some of the internal structure, including a hidden internal column where a screw might fit to secure it. There's a text label next to the model that starts "15 - has".

Design Labor is Work. Workers Need Unions.

I'm glad to see conversations about design and labor multiply in design spaces and social media circles. Design professionals are often taught to see themselves as artists and not workers, which helps to keep designers from advocating collectively for better working conditions - a concept Marisa Cortright names "The Myth of the Calling". Read Cortright's essay "Death to the Calling: A Job in Architecture Is Still a Job" in Failed Architecture for more on this idea. https://failedarchitecture.com/author/marisa-cortright/

#architectsneedunions #jointhemovement #union #solidarity #architecture #architectureunion #1u #labormovement #uwcbe #uwcollegeofbuiltenvironments #gouldhall #gouldhalluw #uwlandscapearchitecture #uwarchitecture #rhino3d #rhinoceros3d #3dmodeling #digitaldrawing #illustrationartists #illustration

An isometric drawing of staircases in UW's Gould Hall building with text surrounding that reads "Design Labor is Work. Workers need unions." The design is black and white with a noise texture added.

I'm quite happy with this Synthwave #matcap I made. It's quite soothing when I have to do troublesome surfacing at work. 😎 I made it for #Rhino3D but it also works in #Blender3D so feel free to use it! 💙💜

Screenshot from Rhino with the matcap in use. An old concept for Playsam which never went into production.

just discovered the most helpful new component – "content cache" – in gh https://www.rhino3d.com/features/grasshopper/content-cache/ omg!

#grasshopper #rhino3d

Breakdown in alt text for those interested. #Rhino3D #Procreate #Blender3D

Everything was modeled in nurbs in Rhino. Overkill, but this is the software I’m the most comfortable with. Line art was extracted from photo references and tweaked to project nicely onto the sphere. Eyes and beak was also modeled here.

To figure out the rear, the model was imported into Procreate which also has a pretty good texture painting feature. This allowed for fast iteration and figuring out which designs worked and would fit.

Finally everything ended up in Blender. Only procedural textures were used save for the displacement of the blue graphics, which had to be unwrapped and exported into a photo editing software to add blur, which was then fed back into a displacement modifier.

INTRODUCTORY POST
My meatworld nickname is Ace. I am a #disabled individual living in #Austin, #Texas. Aside from #TTRPG games, I also do #design for #3DPrinting as a hobby using #Rhino3D and #FormZ. I am also a do #programming in #python and #PHP.

My sunday yak shave instead of doing other things was figuring out how #ipywidgets work and making a small one to load #rhino3d models into a @threejs renderer in @ProjectJupyter notebooks

Has anyone done #rhinoinside #jupyter yet?😅

This was a lot harder than I expected for really dumb reasons (webpack, mostly 😤).

#threejs #python #jupyter

Some WIP #icons I’m working on for #Rhino3D in my spare time. #CAD #design

Some minimalistic but hopefully still friendly and readable dark mode icons for Rhino from McNeel.

Continued #penPlotter font antics.
I’m modifying the ‘txt’ font to be open path, which works in #rhino3d but only using the ‘textObject’ command which makes polylines. That plots OK using autoDesk TrueView.
I’ve been trying #inkscape as well, but I think it’s HPGL implementation is lacking. I can use its ‘Hershey text’ plug-in to turn regular text into open path SVGs, but all the prints fail after some number of segments. Sometimes the pen will just go off into space, and other times it’ll just stall. Tried slower baud rates just in case, to no avail.

Plot tests using an HP 7475A pen plotter, text and circles

Me: Damn #Rhino3D kinda sucks on Mac, ima boot into my PC.
My PC:

This is the least bad I’ve been able to get my HP #penPlotter to print text without running it through full blown AutoCAD to swap out to a proper plotter friendly font.
In #Rhino3D the font is called ‘txt’, and I’m using the textObject command which makes line work from the entered text and font.
The downside is it’s rendered as an outline, so every line is gone over twice.
On the plus-side, it’s not doing that dumb, stabby pen motion that was happening with text as actual font text.

Getting closer by dialing in the export settings in #DWG export settings in #Rhino3D which are comprehensive. Max angle & chord height work together, and I need to dial it in a little more, but it's getting there. What was throwing me is the 'Chord Height' parameter units don't seem to relate to anything I can figure out.

my workflow is definitely in it's infancy.
I started by tracing a PDF of the schematic in #rhino3d making symbols as I went. I used text styles for the various sized fonts, thinking I could just change them to plotter-friendly fonts once I brought them into AutoCAD, but for whatever reason, they came in as text objects with their fonts over-ridden, so I had to use a script to make them all follow their style (otherwise I would have had to manually change the fonts for every text object).
Circles and arcs from Rhino also presented an issue - they would get drawn as multiple segments (which is what it does in AutoCAD too - they can't make 'real' curves), but there'd be a pen up/down command for every segment, which was slow, and violent, and put down way too much ink.
I may be better off doing this natively in AutoCAD, but Rhino is my day-to-day driver; I just need AutoCAD because it has the plotter driver.

@timixretroplays Couple of things to think about...

For #Rhino3D you could install a VM on Mint and snarf the directory structure onto your Linux host - and then experiment with Wine/Proton/Bottles/etc. There's GPU pass-thru options but I'm not a fan.

#Blender is great but is not parametric native although CAD Sketcher has done a lot.

On the #FreeCAD / #Ondsel side I think great things are coming. Dev work has seemed to accelerate and the topology thing is "fixed". I'm putting my focus here.

@timixretroplays I created a set of grasshopper components that allow to create gcode that eliminates travel movements completely (if posible). #3DPrinting
#rhino3dhttps://daniel-westhof.de/code/Ouroboros/

I designed this piece in Rhinoceros and laser cut it out of 1/8" plywood. It measures about 36" x 24". It's called Reef #1 (I expect there will be more reef designs).

#lasercut #lasercutting #woodart #rhino3d

Laser cut wood abstract coral reef artwork

I shouldn't start a new project while having dozens unfinished ones, but here I am. Doing #StarTrek #TNG NCC-1701-D in #Rhino3D (because sitting in front of #CAD in my day job apparently isn't enough). 🖖

But just discovered that there's two sets of "original" blueprints. One by Ed Whitefire and one by Rick Sternbach, and they differ a bit. So now I'm doing a deep dive on #Trekker forums reading up on who changed what and why... 🤓😅

#Rhino3D

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