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A number of folks have reached out expressing interest in buying training hurdles and I'm trying to gauge the interest overall. I designed these primarily for my wife, but if I can help make training safer for the sport she loves so much, it's worth looking into. Please help me out by commenting below so I can better understand the interest and needs: 1) How many folk are actually interested in buying these training hurdles? 2) What's most important to you, convenience or cost? What I mean by that is I can imagine three different ways of selling this product to a coach or athlete, listed from most expensive to least expensive: 2a) Ready to go. You order it and it is shipped with all the parts pre-cut, glued, etc. All you have to do is set them up 2b) Parts kit. All the 3D printed parts are complete and the magnets are already embedded. You just need to make a trip to the hardware store to pick up a few things which are included in a detailed parts list with instructions 2c) Plans only. You already have a 3d printer and I send you the printer files as well as a detailed parts list and instructions. You print and build everything. 3) Is adjustable height an important feature? The vertical bars can be cut to any height you desire, and you can swap vertical bars to change the height. But is it needed to include some sort of extension mechanism to quickly and easily adjust the bar height? Please let me know what you think, and share with any coaches or athletes you think might benefit from this. NOTE: I don't believe that Nia Ali or Keni Harrison sustained any serious injuries in the videos I showed as examples. Thankfully they were both able to get up and walk it off. I picked these examples because I was able to find good clear video and they aren't graphic. I didn't include any of the high school hurdle fails because I wanted to show that even the best of the best hit hurdles, it's an occupational hazard. Cindy has several scars from hurdle strikes and I've seen her come home bleeding more than once.
@@EinGamer22 my understanding is that's a great solution for backing up your data, but doesn't do the "bare metal boot drive backup" am I incorrect? As I mentioned, I firmly believe in AND when it comes to backups. I know that they have an automated process for backing up your NAS to an offsite NAS which is really cool. Just need to make a friend who has a NAS. Synology makes a great product, thank you for bringing it up.
I don't know. All I know about it is that it makes a drive image backup or something along those lines. I haven't deeply researched it yet. However when I changed a HDD to a smaller SSD, I was successful at restoring the previous state of the HDD on the SSD. Oh and before I forget: this active backup software is for Windows, Mac and some flavors of Linux. And yes you can make backups to an off site NAS and also to a USB HDD which you then unplug after the backup (my recommendation).
- To simplify via CONSOLIDATING COPLANAR TRIANGLES... --- Method 01: 'Split Body', then 'Combine(join)': automagically consolidates many triangles (sometimes, and to some degree). --- Method 02: With Timeline/history off, in 'SURFACE' context tab, do 'Merge' (w/ 'Select Chain' active), select single face... accept w/ 'OK'. Repeat, if necessary. *Remember to turn Timeline back on.
This is great. I hope you patent your work! This could help a lot of athletes and provide extra income for your family! Bless God for your skills being used for your wife .
@@nerolpeterson884I'm working on that, it seems there is some interest. I'm going to put out a hurdle specific video soon and if there is enough interest I'd like to offer them to promote hurdle training. I hope to continue the discussion in that video!
When I insert the mesh, then "Generate Face Groups" select the whole part and run it, then I "Combine Face Groups" and select the whole part, it doesn't seem to change the number of resultant polygons, at least not on this part. What am I missing? Are there other steps you use when importing a part?
@@buildtestbuild Never mind what I said about combining face groups. You need the prismatic method feature to convert meshes and merge groups of faces into singular faces.
Just curious, but what's the benefit of creating a mesh of the part before exporting? I've been able to successfully print parts by just exporting the part as a .stl
Thank you for the question, and that actually opens another point. First, to address you question, I personally like using the mesh output method because you have some adjustments and you can preview it before you save it out which can effect file size. But, as you point out, you can select the body and use the File>Export tool to save it to STL just as well. That said, with a lot of the new slicers being able to use STEP files. If your goal is to 3D print the object, you may be better off using the File>Export tool and save it as a STEP file. Generally they are considered to be better detail.
@@gregorysember2164 it's just a difference in architecture, nothing wrong with it, but you need to know that if you are going to use tool batteries as a power source. And they make an excellent power source for this kind of project, after a week of use I'm only seeing one bar of power used.
Yes, bambu slicer handles sequential copies actually pretty intelligently. Not only does it arrange them in a triangular order but it takes into account the height of the part when determining how close to place them together. All you have to do is set it to print sequential, select the number of part copies you want, click "arrange", and then print. The slicer does all the mundane work
One of my most used features of RU-vid is adjusting the speed and scrubbing to a point in a tutorial. On a computer you can use the shortcuts Shift + > to increase the speed, Shift + < to decrease the speed and the left and right arrow keys to scrub to a timestamp to review or skip forward. On mobile the speed is in Settings and you can use the slider to move around the timeline.
