Archives for the Month of March, 2007

Lost in translation

CAD file formats are a mess. I’m trying to get a part made in Autodesk Inventor into Mastercam. IGES is borked. Half the surfaces don’t come in. SAT has a version mismatch or something, and it refuses to import. I don’t have a license for STEP import, apparently, and STL (even if it isn’t NURBS) […]

How to get around Safe Chat

Today, my friend told me about this amazing new Internet filter. He went to a meeting at the city hall, where it was being demonstrated to the government. Apparently, the police gave it the thumbs up and recommended it for the schools. On a news story, it said that it was made by a Purdue […]