Can’t see a way of moving/deleting the nose and tail control points… am I missing something?
Making a fish tail seems to involve adding a control point aft of the tail… but then the board dimensions do not reflect the (new) true length.
For more advanced tail shapes you have to edit the nurbs-surfaces directly in the 3D-view. Unfortunately I noticed that some funcionality is missing in the released version. I will try to add that and write a short tutorial in a couple of weeks. Here is what it should look like:
Can you make it easier to DL and/or unzip and/or install too? I don’t know what the hangup is for me, but I gave up on it when Java3D or the new version killed my iteration from 2 or 3 iterations ago, which was working well enough, and I have downloaded the files and tried unzipping them but can’t get the thing to open and run.
For the time being boardCAD exports to dxf, stl and step. Most CAM packages will be able to read atleast one of these formats and produce g-code from it. Or save as brd and cut with Shape3D or APS3000 based machines. For the hobbyist it’s still useful for creating templates at the very least.
It’s a pretty cool concept. There’s a lot of work to be done and I don’t think it is very useful without seeing a cutting path in G-code.
A lot of work is being done ;-). Here you can see the actual cutting paths for the board above, with G-code generated directly in BoardCAD (future release)… Currently I visualize the cutting paths in the machine software and not in BoardCAD, but I agree that visualization would be a nice addition.
thanks Haavard, finally able to smooth out my rail, rocker and deck bezier curves. Compatible with other apps and open source too, very cool. You guys seem to have it wired.
For the hobbyist it's still useful for creating templates at the very least.
Exact reason I’m digging your program! Thanks for your work and the excellent price
I thought about going to an office depot/office max/kinkos store with my brd file on a memory disk, find the inhouse techno geek and see if he’d open it using java boardcad.org and print my template on continuous paper. Does anyone think/know whether they’d do this?
I’ve just (re) installed Boardcad on a couple of computers. I installed the new version (6) of Java SE http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp (since this is the version of Java Sun is supporting) and the online version of Boardcad starts up no problems. I still have some problems with the 3D function freezing on the one computer, but I guess this is either Java 3D or the computer graphics. The function works fine on the other computer.
Haarvard also helped me identify why my S3D files wouldn’t open (thanks!). An extra space in the <Ref.Point> and </Ref.Point> tags. I opened the S3D file in Notepad, edited out the spaces and saved it - the file opened fine in BoardCad.
there are no big name company developers on the program (so far). If anyone want to contribute, it’s much appreciated.
If there are any glitches, please PM me or Johan with details. Bug reports are encouraged. How else are we going to fix it if noone tells us what’s wrong? Same with ideas for improvements and extensions, we love to hear your ideas.
On my computers the scroll functions works for zooming in both in 2D and 3D. Driver issues?
