Which software did you remove/was on there?
The Core 2 Duo has been around for ten years now, which is the age that Tom said that the previous laser PC is, so the HPs might not be any newer. I used to have an extremely similar Core 2 Duo HP machine at work (the cases are identical, so may have been the exact model), running Windows XP, and it was as slow as anything. The laser PC was a dedicated CAD workstation, which the HP machines are not. Adam installed Windows XP on the HP machines, what other work did he do to them? I also recall that he specifically warned that they should not be connected to the internet with XP as their operating system, which complicates file transfer and the remote software update mentioned by David.
Blender. Rhino5 or something (3d modelling software)
And one thing I forget to mention is that LaserBot was disconnected. Is this intentional?
Yes. However Rhino is being used by one member for its 2d design capability.
So the lasercutter PC is now workstation? When did that happen?
Is LaserBot broken?
It’s not but you need the software to print from
What happened to saving it in a format that can be used in CorelDraw, Inkscape or PDF?
A nice idea, but in practice this breaks designs more than is okay, I for one have found that my beautifully thought out illustrator files turn to crap via Inkscape. Thus it makes a lot of sense to install the software wot you designed it in.
Also, if I could chuck a brazier at the ‘let’s get illustrator’ gate I would be happy. Thankyouplease.
We’ve been talking about this gate for a while and my view is the original software is needed because you always need to make minor changes as you are cutting.
Also importing files makes a mess of it often.
I’m with Tom and Pete on this one. You’ve got to be able to go back and forth with the source software to correct for the situation “on the ground”
+1.
Totally makes sense to have a good range of the kinds of software people actually use. IMO, this discourages the ‘use this as a workhorse’ mentality for those that use the cutter.
I’d much rather use illustrator on my own Mac, where its customised to my own workflow, than that which is on the cutter. I just want to be sure that whatever I do at home is faithfully recreated on the laser cutter.
I’m not using it as a workstation!! Rhino is just useful to have there to print to JC as from inkscape or anything else, and the PC had exactly the same problems last week before I installed it
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Not to worry. These problems have been going on for ages. NO problem with having Rhino installed for all the above reasons.
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Having used this PC/laser cutter in anger now, I get the frustration. Printing from PDF seems beyond it. That foxit thing somehow doesn’t translate the PDF into print correctly, going into Inkscape is a clusterfuck, CorelDraw worked for me but really why do I need to bother, the PDF is correct.
At Queen Mary, there’s Acrobat, which prints to the Universal driver fine. Have we tried Acrobat? I didn’t see it in the list of programs to open the PDF in, when I right-clicked.
Feel free to install it!
The point is that printing aside it’s still annoying to have to go home or bring a laptop to make a small change during a job.
Sure, but let’s not bring that up here! The gist was has anybody ever successfully printed from a PDF directly? It seems not. That I didn’t realise.
I’ve been going via Corel with my PDFs
I’ll install proper acrobat later on.
I know it’s for everyone’s benefit but I really appreciate you guys trying to sort this; I’m useless with computers.
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