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Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

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Randomly wondering why they went for 3d steel printing for something that looks like it can be carved much more easily by a very simple 2-axis CNC, since it has no overhangs or anything.

We are using Shapeways.com to turn them into metal for us and it was the option they had. Haven't tried getting it CNC'd but thinking we might need to change the model up a bit to allow the tool to get into some of the gaps that are possible. If anyone wants to try with a CNC machine then love to know what the results are like

Why is it so hard to find companies that you give an STL file, choose material, tweak some settings, pay and give address? First thing I see on shapeways is get a quote, which means I have to go into a sales funnel by signing up and waste time instead of actually printing a 3d model.

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

#26

Doesn't work on Firefox? Any user I look up ends up with a "We did not find any @... on Github, try again." even when the call returns data correctly.

Hmm, interesting. Working on Firefox some folks (heard about GPU perf issues on Firefox when running on a M1 processor that we are looking at as well). Will take a look and see if we can replicate your issue. Do the individual links work for you? (https://skyline.github.com/martinwoodward/2020)

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

#27

Doesn't work on Firefox? Any user I look up ends up with a "We did not find any @... on Github, try again." even when the call returns data correctly.

Hmm, interesting. Working on Firefox some folks (heard about GPU perf issues on Firefox when running on a M1 processor that we are looking at as well). Will take a look and see if we can replicate your issue. Do the individual links work for you? ( https://skyline.github.com/martinwoodward/2020 )

Yes, that works fine.

The problem seems to be (my guess, I haven't looked at it much) when processing the response from https://skyline.github.com/api/contributions

I can see a correct response on the Network tab with apparently good data. But then it shows the error without even trying to do anything else.

Add: Just for info: Firefox 85.0.2 (64-bit). No add-ons. Win10. No problems at all regarding WebGL.

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are using Shapeways.com to turn them into metal for us and it was the option they had. Haven't tried getting it CNC'd but thinking we might need to change the model up a bit to allow the tool to get into some of the gaps that are possible. If anyone wants to try with a CNC machine then love to know what the results are like

Why is it so hard to find companies that you give an STL file, choose material, tweak some settings, pay and give address? First thing I see on shapeways is get a quote, which means I have to go into a sales funnel by signing up and waste time instead of actually printing a 3d model.

I was able to create an account with Shapeways, upload a model and print out a single copy paying on my credit card without talking to a person.

Re: Skyline – Your GitHub story in 3D

#29

Doesn't work on Firefox? Any user I look up ends up with a "We did not find any @... on Github, try again." even when the call returns data correctly.

WFM on firefox 85.0.1 on ubuntu 18.04. No problems looking up a user and getting the 3D model. (well, it's slow because it's in virtualbox on an ancient Macbook Pro because my new one died and is away for service but's that's tangential... unless the slowness is a factor in it working -- I've seen stranger!)
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