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trying to learn catia. its pain
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8 hours ago, richfiles said:
I just got an Anycubic Photon Mono SE. It looks like a pretty cool 3D printer. Now if only I could make heads or tails of ANY piece of 3D modeling software! I'm giving Blender a shot, since it's open source, but honestly, it feels like overkill. There are so many features that are just not needed for a static 3D model, and it's hard to see through the clutter to the basic tools I need. I've yet to figure out how to even manipulate the starter cube, much less generate new shapes! Good Lord, I am so lost!
I don't know if there's a more suited tool for creating 3D models on Mac, but I'm bound to eventually learn... I hope!
uhh for solid modeling dont use blender. Its not really meant for solid modelling, its more for I think for mesh based stuff. Fusion 360 is free (ish, there's like paid tiers for additional features, but the core modelling should still be there), and might work on mac? Its what I'd personally use to make just quick home project 3d models for printing.
General usage of fusion is make a sketch extrude, make new sketches.
There's also a funky program called OpenSCAD which is script based and open source, but I would not use that personally.
Edit: Gonna leave a link since the autodesk site is terrible to navigate - https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal
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oh boy its another exam week done very remotely. time to wake-up tomorrow at 3 am (again) and try not to fail things.
Corona has its benefits. Uni from home is one of them kinda, but not very helpful if your uni is 6 hours ahead. -
Uni student, not aerospace engineering or engineering.
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EVE online is a very notable space combat sim sort of. Also Elite Dangerous IIRC. Its not a really super big space but its large enough.
Also yes you can for flying (after setting some stuff up in the settings). I dont think building with a HOTAS is very nice. -
Why not mk-2 to 1.25 m and then a 1.25m nose cone? Not quite the same but would work.
edit: I should read better - not quite right. Anyways whoops.
Uhhhh my other suggestion is maybe trying to do custom body working using other parts (fairings, radiators, etc).
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Is there not a way to like "purchase as gift" so that you could hold on to them in the steam sales or sth?
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7 hours ago, snkiz said:
As of now there is no game mechanic that requires you to do resupply missions. This gives you a reason, and opens the door to more possibilities
I dont disagree with either of those statements, but for myself personally I play almost exclusively sandbox (never really fell in love with career). So for my purposes I dont really care to do resupply missions and its more of an annoyance if I have to remember to bring some random consumable for my rover as a "backup" instead of bringing along just an extra kerbal.
Sure leave the mechanic in, but I'd personally try to turn it off asap.
13 hours ago, Boyster said:Extensive repairs should cost you something, which game mechanic you would use?
I am guessing/hoping we will be able to repair more stuff in the future, how would you balance that?
These feel a bit like loaded questions but whatever. I dont disagree extensive repairs should cost something and that this mechanic of consumables is a good way of both somewhat balancing and "accounting for that". In the current game thats from the engineer level which I think is fine as it is. But again, for my playstyle ehhh I'd rather not worry or be limited by constraints like "needing a consumable to fix my stuff that broke because I was dumb 10 years into a mission"
I think there is a point to be made about similarity to life support, you shouldn't be able to leave a kerbal in a chair for 30 years, which game mechanic would you use? I dont think you can get a valuable discussion since the mechanics dont exist as it wasn't a consideration within the base game (kerbal is only somewhat realistic).
That was a bit rambly but anyways maybe that made some sense.
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Meh not so much a fan of having to carry repair kits to fix stuff. I mean inventory system and stuff sure cool. Also fixing solar panels super cool. But having to have consumables to repair Is a little less so IMO.
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21 hours ago, Pds314 said:
Opinion: it's a hybrid aircraft if it's propelled by forward jets/props. Real helos are full rotor-propelled.
while in principle I dont disagree, with the KSP aero model being the way it is I dont mind being somewhat more lenient with defining helicopter as "thing that uses rotors for lift" since you know, proper swashplates and cyclic control are hard.
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Huh this'll be interesting to follow. Although done with ye olde turbo prop tech, I have managed to do 40 minutes of sustained ~70 m/s flight (which itself was a challenge). Doing the math thats about 200 km That was also using afterburning panthers for speed, (at some points) though and also using (mostly aesthetic?) stubby wings so how useful of a comparison it is is questionable..
If you do use more efficient tech, it might not be totally insane.....
I think water hugging or not depends on the inter-fuel drop range of your craft. Let's first see though if it is possible.
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hmmmm those tiny rcs place anywhere ports if they still would have a spherical collider might be very useful in stock joints..... (not that you really arguably need those cause of BG but hey its nice to have the option).
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yaaay i finished with exams
now to repeat this in one month.
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22 hours ago, Yakez said:
Ok I was chilling, relaxing and just constructing new beauty shuttle full of lessons learned from my STS challenges.
oooh thats pretty. 4 jets seem a little overkill though? Maybe its just me.
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1 hour ago, computercat04 said:
PS: I also want an efficient landing technique. I one tried landing and failed
Well there's efficient and effective. The most efficient is a suicide burn where you basically after deorbiting freefall and wait till the last possible second to burn at full power retrograde. Efficient, but hard to perfectly pull off. If you fail you end up smacking into the ground. Easier is to first just cancel most of your horizontal velocity then do a vertical burn. Still better to wait till almost too late for those for more efficiency. I hope that made sense.
And yeah echoing DeadJohn, you can probably just land the entire base in one piece.
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3am exam time....
again. yaaay me.
at least 1/3 exams done (not necessarily well but thats over)
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5 minutes ago, ffx said:
69 + 1
Should be negative. Invalid therefore.
Last valid is AlamoVampire at -70
Now at -71 (-1)
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7 hours ago, Kernel Kraken said:
I've been having drive issues since I got it. I replaced the hard disk with a WD Black drive but it still had all sorts of problems. I've finally decided to just put it down.
Welp... RIP computer. Hopefully the next one works more reliably
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13 hours ago, Kernel Kraken said:
My computer just got a BSOD and died for the 3rd time this week, so that's pretty fun. Thankfully I'll be building a new one as soon as the RTX 3070 drops.
dude I've gotten it like 3 times in one day here. Mildly concerning buuuuuut its fine.....
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On 9/26/2020 at 2:31 PM, sturmhauke said:
We've secretly replaced Mars with Dres. Let's see if anyone notices!
What is this 'Dres' you speak of? I dont think it exists.....
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oh boy is it ever super fun to run on 3 hours of sleep cause you have an exam thats at 4:30 am where you are because your uni is across the ocean and 6 hours ahead of where you live
at least theres caffeine to keep you going
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On 9/18/2020 at 7:23 AM, richfiles said:
Motor issues that suck and are very annoying
Umm possibly dumb question - would it not be possible to make/get an adapter between the 5 and 6 mm shafts to make finding a temporary (or temporaryish depending on how things go...) motor easier?
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Ok sure it looks cool I guess.
But there's no good reason for gameplay purposes to introduce these (IMO). We have the small solar panels for small amounts of power and the super large panels for more station or base sized stuff. If you need more power ona small scale, add a couple more panels. Adding these circular panels dont add anything gameplay wise other than this neat form factor.
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Microsoft, Apple or Linux?
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I use windows mostly cause its the thing I know best. Doesn't mean I particularly like it. Has good compatibility for what I need though.
Have tried using Linux before. Though its fine and nice I guess, I wouldn't use it probably for personal home use... Also hassle to convert my current systems over, as nice as itd be probably.