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Trying to come up with a way to rip tayda drill templates to illustrator and the closer I get the more frustrating it is, I figured it was a much longer shot than this. The tool renders previews out as SVGs, and these can be saved and imported to illustrator easy enough. But these SVGs don’t scale to a UV print canvas in a way that makes any sense to me.

The tool loads the coordinates from a JSON payload, which is also easy enough to rip. I could automate creating a new, correctly sized, SVG from these, but its been too long since I’ve used SVGs and the coordinate system is annoyingly from top left to bottom right. If I’m remembering highschool algebra right this could just be a few matrix manipulations away from being right.

But of course, I was expecting to find out within 5 minutes that it was way too much work to be reasonable instead of going “oh, that actually might not be so difficult!”
 
finebyfine said:
Trying to come up with a way to rip tayda drill templates to illustrator and the closer I get the more frustrating it is, I figured it was a much longer shot than this. The tool renders previews out as SVGs, and these can be saved and imported to illustrator easy enough. But these SVGs don’t scale to a UV print canvas in a way that makes any sense to me.

The tool loads the coordinates from a JSON payload, which is also easy enough to rip. I could automate creating a new, correctly sized, SVG from these, but its been too long since I’ve used SVGs and the coordinate system is annoyingly from top left to bottom right. If I’m remembering highschool algebra right this could just be a few matrix manipulations away from being right.

But of course, I was expecting to find out within 5 minutes that it was way too much work to be reasonable instead of going “oh, that actually might not be so difficult!”
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finebyfine said:
I don’t even code for a job and this still describes like 50% of the time I spend on a computer. I wish I knew 10% less about computers, maybe then I’d be happy
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I feel the same way and I work as a programmer! Damn Bill Gates and his lies back in the 90s! Actually 90s and early 2000 internet was the best. I wish we could go back to it. Yes even MySpace.
 
giovanni said:
I feel the same way and I work as a programmer! Damn Bill Gates and his lies back in the 90s! Actually 90s and early 2000 internet was the best. I wish we could go back to it. Yes even MySpace.
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same, I'm not a programmer but it used to be so much more benevolent and free. Now it has bent to the will of capitalist tech bros and is insidious as hell.
 
giovanni said:
I feel the same way and I work as a programmer! Damn Bill Gates and his lies back in the 90s! Actually 90s and early 2000 internet was the best. I wish we could go back to it. Yes even MySpace.
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You’re talking to someone who had a geocities page! I got online I think when I was 5? and was writing html and php by 10. Early 2000s was the best internet I’ve lived through.
 
finebyfine said:
Trying to come up with a way to rip tayda drill templates to illustrator and the closer I get the more frustrating it is, I figured it was a much longer shot than this. The tool renders previews out as SVGs, and these can be saved and imported to illustrator easy enough. But these SVGs don’t scale to a UV print canvas in a way that makes any sense to me.

The tool loads the coordinates from a JSON payload, which is also easy enough to rip. I could automate creating a new, correctly sized, SVG from these, but its been too long since I’ve used SVGs and the coordinate system is annoyingly from top left to bottom right. If I’m remembering highschool algebra right this could just be a few matrix manipulations away from being right.

But of course, I was expecting to find out within 5 minutes that it was way too much work to be reasonable instead of going “oh, that actually might not be so difficult!”
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What I really want is the opposite, I want to be able to upload a dxf/dwg to Tayda's drill tool. All my drill templates start as CorelDraw files, and I have to input the features to the website tool one at a time by hand like a neanderthal.
 
vigilante398 said:
What I really want is the opposite, I want to be able to upload a dxf/dwg to Tayda's drill tool. All my drill templates start as CorelDraw files, and I have to input the features to the website tool one at a time by hand like a neanderthal.
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This might be possible by spoofing the json it loads depending when and where it gets loaded. Not sure how any non-binary export options handle coordinates but there’s probably one that wouldn’t be work to translate to tayda’s from-center spec. No clue how the lines/shapes would work like you use though
 
Rebuild my Simms-Watts amp completely with fresh components, changed coupling caps smaller, reflowed everything etc.

For couple days it had terrible 100Hz hum on idle i couldn’t figure out topping more filtering, moving heater wires and taking measurements incase of incorrectly placed AC/DC voltages.

But today I had success with finally debugging it with cleaning and tightening preamp socket pins. Duh.

Played the amp for two hours on rehersals and you know what? FFS the hum came back. It came back. Came back. The HUM. The 100Hz. On phone recording just in front of speakers I got -35dB @ 50Hz and -18dB @ 100Hz.

I’m out of motivation at the moment and left amp to rehearsal room. Still I’m scratching my head with what next. Tube swapping? Other rectifier diodes? New tube sockets? Dc ref for htr? Disconnect NFB? Start playing just with Vypyr? :D
 
JohnnyCreepy said:
Rebuild my Simms-Watts amp completely with fresh components, changed coupling caps smaller, reflowed everything etc.

For couple days it had terrible 100Hz hum on idle i couldn’t figure out topping more filtering, moving heater wires and taking measurements incase of incorrectly placed AC/DC voltages.

But today I had success with finally debugging it with cleaning and tightening preamp socket pins. Duh.

Played the amp for two hours on rehersals and you know what? FFS the hum came back. It came back. Came back. The HUM. The 100Hz. On phone recording just in front of speakers I got -35dB @ 50Hz and -18dB @ 100Hz.

I’m out of motivation at the moment and left amp to rehearsal room. Still I’m scratching my head with what next. Tube swapping? Other rectifier diodes? New tube sockets? Dc ref for htr? Disconnect NFB? Start playing just with Vypyr? :D
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Swapping V1 made it quieter and cured completely with swapping V2 too. Guess worn tubes had leaky heaters?

All good for now. Just wait till my next headache when adding toggle switches for disabling power amp NFB and choosable values for preamp cathode bybass caps… :ROFLMAO:
 
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