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Firs trim installed
The new house is coming along great! The roof sheeting is a couple of days from completion. While the carpenters were busy on the roof we were busy on the ground floor welding up the framework for the trees and then attaching the lath for the plasterwork to follow. At long last we are now ready to begin icing the cake
Final house trim at last
The house is coming together quickly. The carpenters are busy sheeting the roof
SAE Battle At The Lincoln Airpark!
Congratulations to the University of Kansas "Jayhawks" SAE team on their very first SAE competition win. Coastal Enterprises was proud to assist in the construction of two top-of-the-line cars with our Precision Board Plus HDU donations. You may remember the two cars...
All plugged up
Today I finally found the time to do the last work on the C & S Electric sign prior to painting. I was working from an existing logo designed by someone else.
T-Splines Webinar: Transitioning from NURBS to T-Splines
Well let’s get some of the dust off this blog, it’s been far too long. I’ve been busy with a variety of projects and distractions, unfortunately very little of which can be shared here. I did however do a nice one hour webinar hosted by Autodesk on the very basics of T-Splines. Especially for those who are coming from a NURBS surface modeling background (as I did), T-Splines can be a fairly daunting piece of software to wrap your head around. The way you work in T-Splines is often very different from your standard workflow where you start with your big macro shapes, and then trim them and blend them together. So, with that in mind, we created what will be the first in a series of webinars aimed at helping people make the conceptual leap. At the end of the webinar there is a preview of T-Splines running on an Autodesk platform, which is very exciting to see, since there has not been a ton of information forthcoming about how T-Splines will be integrated into Autodesk products. The folks at Autodesk took the “Egg Man” demo I did at the end of the presentation and put it to some music, which I thought was really cool. So, dim the lights, crank the speakers, and enjoy!
Ten Tips For Working With Precision Board Plus HDU
1. Carbide cutters are not mandatory when cutting Precision Board Plus. Because it is non-abrasive, Precision Board Plus can be cut with anything that cuts wood, but much easier. 2. To maximize CNC efficiency and cutting time, and to minimize dust and increase...
Assembling all those pieces
The contractor and his team of carpenters are making great progress on the new house.
Designing and Building a Race Car – What Does It Take?
Just what goes into the design of a race car? For the many people who have had the pleasure of driving or watching a sports car or professional race car, its quite apparent that some talented minds were involved in the engineering of such a masterpiece. Nick Roberts...
creating woodgrain form liners
I received an email this morning from Jim in Minnesota.