u/eirenii

I've wanted to try emulating lithographic printing for a poster design, but that's a little out of reach for me, so I'm trying with stuff more readily available to me. I'm experimenting with laser cutting/engraving, as my local community workshop has a laser cutter I've used before, and I can get large pieces of ply and cork. I'm really chuffed with how this first attempt with cork has come out! The cork texture really isn't bad, and the standard thickness of line you get just from the laser cutter is wide enough to be pretty clear. It's a pretty slow process because there's a couple of little bits that broke off and i keep forgetting which colours I've already covered each time lol. Right now reach print is taking ~13min to cover the ink, assemble the pieces and press, so it needs improving...

The design of the wheels of a 1950s British Rail tank wagon, because I think the old style suspension (the bendy layers of metal) is so elegant.

Hi everyone,

I'm new to freecad but I have used other software before, and this is baffling me.

I have a "pad" shape based on one sketch that I want to "common" boolean with a "loft", based on two other sketches. The shape it makes is correct, but for some reason it throws up an error about duplicate children, which I'm sure is going to mess with later operations. I've added some screenshots of what happens. Anyone got any ideas on why it's making a duplicate pad and two duplicates of the loft? I've tried just deleting one but it ends up deleting all of them.

Cheers!

For a long while, I had a keyring that looked a little like these drawings I just did. It had a flat solid black ring, and at the gap it had two hooks: an open one and a closed one, which held a small brass ring. You'd pinch it to close it and open it/ hook and unhook the small ring. I lost it the other week and have no idea where it originally came from (either UK or Greece but don't know any more specific than that) or where to look for another; keywords into search engines haven't got me anywhere. I'm wondering if it came from a tool or some other very specific purpose. It was a fantastic keyring, really solid and reliable and easy to use. If anyone knows where it might have come from or could direct me to where one might be found I'd be very thankful!

I got married in July and thought I'd share my wedding outfit with you! I'm nonbinary and was really worried about how I'd get something I could feel myself in, as everything formal almost always leans overtly masculine or feminine. I ended up loosely designing what I wanted myself and went to a local dressmaker, who was an absolute gem, to have it made!

• We had orange and purple as a general colour theme
• I based the jacket design on some traditional Greek mens' jackets (cause that's part of my life + heritage), which feature these huge cape-like sleeves.
• We experimented with getting my embroidery designs onto it as the traditional stuff is covered in embroidery (but I don't have the budget to get anywhere near that amount of embroidery done), managed to do it using InkStitch
• I had a circles&squares motif throughout the wedding (circles for him as a railway engineer, so wheels and gears, squares for me as an artist/architect, so windows and picture frames) which I used for the big embroidery pattern and then next to the little monogram embroidery (E+R)
• The material is a "wine" deadstock wool
• The buttons are vintage British Rail buttons (the gold means inspector grade, he tells me)
• The orange shirt I found in a vintage shop in Cologne for €12, didn't have time at the time to even try it but knew I'd regret it if I left it, miraculously it did fit when I got back to the UK and I got it altered. It's a shot fabric of gold-coloured metal and red silk and gives the most amazing iridescent orange effect
• The boots were Insanely expensive but honestly fully worth it, from a German shop called Trippen (click the 3rd photo to see). For someone who p much only shops in charity (thrift?) shops and therefore £20 is usually a big haul, I'm still reeling...
• The earrings I made out of scrap leather pieces in 20minutes the morning of the wedding (none of the earrings I had were quite cutting it, and I'd had a brainwave overnight), painted white using posca pens and the edges painted with a copper signwriting paint we'd used elsewhere for the wedding We had our wedding at a museum near us based in a factory built in 1720 and it was amazing.