Now, I did say half a dozen...but I am not sure that gets me off the hook for impulsiveness! I bought a Creality Ender 3 last spring because it was on sale for $100, and I figured I could risk that much if I didn't like it. I immediately became obsessed and bought another Ender 3 with some upgrades used for $100. Then, I bought the new (at the time) Ender 3 V3 KE because I wanted to experiment with Klipper. I jailbroke it and added boards to the Enders I already had so they could run Klipper. Then I bought a used Bambu with the AMS lite and then a new Bambu. I had big plans for selling 3d printed items of all sorts, but it turns out I am better at making money with code and computer services so far! They seem to have improved with Foxpro, but I still get a lot of mashups of Foxpro and C# ish code. It's like it can't tell the difference. I did use them recently to help document a Visual Foxpro app I inherited, and that saved me a lot of time. I am also very green in the world of CAD. I'm no expert by any means!
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM Kurt Wendt kwendt@pakoinc.com wrote:
OMG Mr. Roberts - It's not only surprising that you own One 3DP - but, utterly shocking that you own a Dozen of them!
Do you run a printer farm, and do print productions for money??
Gotta say - I am VERY Pleasantly surprised to see someone in this forum who is also familiar with OpenSCAD. Myself, I have really only dabbled in it. Just being honest.
But, I will say - I'm kinda shocked by your comment of "They are much better at OpenSCAD than Foxpro." - as that has not been my experience at all. I've had AI generate OpenSCAD - but, the script did NOT produce what I wanted. And, yet - my recent experience with AI generating FoxPro code is much better! And, even have AI reading in FoxPro code - and quite successfully generate C# code.
So, yeah - definitely more luck with FoxPro based stuff with AI.
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I also use OpenSCAD and have played around with getting claude.ai and ChatGPT to generate code. They are much better at OpenSCAD than Foxpro. I also found myself trying to size and align some things that OpenSCAD didn't seem good at, so I started experimenting with Cadquery and cq-editor. There were a lot of things to like about them. Still, unfortunately, with my lack of knowledge and ability for Python tooling and dependencies, I could never get them both working together. Then, I discovered that you can programmatically create objects in Blender using Python. So many choices! I still prefer OpenSCAD, but I am also more familiar with it. I went down this rabbit hole because I bought a 3d printer, which then turned into half a dozen 3d printers because I've heard you can't have just one...
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM Kurt Wendt kwendt@pakoinc.com wrote:
There you go! IT seems our Man Stephen has decided to learn some New Tricks using AI.
Right On Dude!!!
Yeah, over time - I've also been trying to dabble into the AI world - and am hoping to eventually harness the power of AI in more serious ways. I
was
even contemplating spinning up an AI server, and doing specific training
of
it - in regards to 3D Designs for 3D Printing. More specifically - train
a
server to properly generate OpenSCAD scripts.
I wonder if anyone here is familiar with OpenSCAD.
For those who are NOT - it's basically a CAD tool that's not based upon a UI to Create 3D Designs (which is the normal case) - instead - it's basically a programming language to create 3D Designs.
I figured that since the language is essentially Text - that AI could generate OpenSCAD. And, I played in ChatGPT - and it DOES actually
generate
OpenSCAD scripts. However, it essentially generated Garbage. Yeah - the code would run, and it's "valid" scripts - but, it simply won't generate the Actual 3D Model that I asked for.
And that my biggest dip into the world of AI as it relates to 3D CG.
-K
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AI, what we think you want.
Different engines do different things with the same prompt.
I'll take my speech notes to help guide it and ask it for a speech on
something new. This is what I do for our Brown Bag training meeting.
Once it gets the facts for you, you can then ask it to pound out speech.
I did this on better queries of the SQL DB, then asked it to base itself
off of Mongo DB. I then went and installed Mongo and did what it told me
to do.
On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Me as an "Old Dog" err.. Fox, I'm still a bit overwhelmed by that AI
stuff...
Billion dollar autocomplete ;)
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