As we clean up wood stain from brushes and equipment it contaminates the paint thinner used in the parts washer. The good news is that most of the stain settles to the bottom.
Here is a “funnel” that we designed and had fabricated by Anything Metal in Altoona. It will allow the solids to flow to the bottom overnight, and then we can draw them off and properly dispose of, while dramatically reducing the amount of paint thinner we need to dispose of.
I’m a SolidWorks user and have spent considerable time with it over the past several years. Recently I heard about Onshape. It looks pretty fascinating – a fresh look at CAD – with full collaboration, versioning, and sharing.
Here is what they say about themselves:
Onshape is the first and only full-cloud 3D CAD system that lets everyone on a design team simultaneously work together using a web browser, phone or tablet.
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The modern web browsers are becoming a truly powerful development platform as illustrated below. The graphics are (about) as smooth as Solidworks – perhaps not quite so fancy. But being able to have your CAD anywhere is kind of exciting. They have a free plan with up to 10 drawings which would be great for schools and students and hobbyists to use.
Update From OnShape:
Jason – thank you for the blog post. We here at Onshape are very excited to make professional grade 3D CAD available to everyone for free. Just to clarify, a free user can have UNLIMITED FREE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AND 5GB OF FREE ONLINE STORAGE. Thats a lot of whatever you’re into :)In addition – free users ALSO get 10 free private documents (not to exceed 100MB) to test Onshape against a proprietary design need.Bottom line – if you are a hobbyist or amateur, you can use Onshape for free forever.Thank you again.Philip …
While data backups at AppCove are taken very seriously, my personal computer at home has, well, been put off for a bit too long…
A recent bite by the Vundo virus lit a fire under me to better be able to recover from a catastrophic loss of a personal computer. I did some research on online backup providers, and found what has turned out to be a great one:
SugarSync is a slick little program that you install on your computer. You tell it what folders to backup, and away it goes. It constantly watches the folders to see when new or changed files need picked up. They also provide a great web based interface to access your files online.
What got me really interested in Sugar Sync was the fact that it can synchronize folders across multiple PC’s. Wow, to have all of your important files on your HDD at all times? That’s really cool.
Under one account, you can add multiple PC’s. You pay for disk space allocations, starting at $2.49/month. 60GB is currently $10 per month.
Security? Anything that you can login on the web with a simple username and password, including a “forgot password” link, in my opinion, has limited security. In other words, there are half a dozen ways to circumvent it. But for the purposes of storing our documents and pictures in a safe place, I believe it is quite suitable.
Here is some info from the About Us page — this was very important in making my decision:
Sharpcast is pioneering innovative solutions that combine fast offline applications with rich online services for protecting, sharing, accessing and enjoying digital files from anywhere on a broad range of devices — personal computers, mobile phones and more. People shouldn’t have to worry about where their files, photos and music are located to be able to enjoy them from anywhere. We make this dream a reality.
A team of wireless and consumer Internet industry veterans with a proven track record for building large-scale wireless data systems and successful Internet businesses founded Sharpcast in 2004 with a mission to make digital life simple. Sharpcast is backed by top Silicon Valley venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Sigma Partners and Selby Venture Partners.
Our flagship service, SugarSync, launched in March of 2008 to rave reviews and is available direct to consumer. SugarSync is built on our proprietary Sharpcast Universal Sync Platform which is also available for license by Wireless Carriers, Internet Service Providers, and Device Manufacturers.
Highly recommended.
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