tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post5503372597992673415..comments2009-03-05T12:20:29.054-05:00Nick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742551843387605596noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-21547407130782054402009-03-05T12:20:00.000-05:002009-03-05T12:20:00.000-05:00Tony,<BR/><BR/>That sounds really cool. I'd love to see it when it's done.<BR/><BR/>Are you starting with an old bike frame and making it stationary, or are you starting from scratch?<BR/><BR/>NickNick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742551843387605596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-19273924590312371522009-02-25T19:23:00.000-05:002009-02-25T19:23:00.000-05:00Pretty great. One issue that came up for me was trying to create a perpendicular miter. At first I used 90 degrees, thinking you were measuring angle with respect to the axis of the full tube and got some garbage output. I figured out you were measuring the angle with respect to a normal to that axis and went for a 0 degree angle and got a "no parallel tubes" error. I just put .000001 for the angle and got what I wanted. Just wanted to let you know of that little hitch.<BR/><BR/>The application is making a stationary bike for a human powered generator.Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13071088223760999311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-25298506629728993402009-02-02T22:25:00.000-05:002009-02-02T22:25:00.000-05:00@ Flemming -- Cool. Great minds think alike ;)Nick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742551843387605596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-19463646196202278402009-02-02T13:25:00.000-05:002009-02-02T13:25:00.000-05:00I while ago I find this site, for connection tubes.<BR/>Maybe you can use this for joining template<BR/>http://www.harderwoods.com/pipetemplate.php<BR/><BR/>Kind regardsFlemminghttp://kimundo.dknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-71727160919096400772009-02-01T13:15:00.000-05:002009-02-01T13:15:00.000-05:00Okay, the update has been posted, check it out!Nick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742551843387605596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-77176134821507289072009-01-31T20:57:00.000-05:002009-01-31T20:57:00.000-05:00Awesome! Looking forward to new version!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-6960179131465018282009-01-24T16:32:00.000-05:002009-01-24T16:32:00.000-05:00Sweet! Isn't Ruby just a joy for writing little scripts like this? Someone ought to make a Firefox plugin that lets the script execute in the browser if you click on a download link for a file ending in ".rb".<BR/><BR/>If you want to get really crazy, you could make the program accept coordinates of all the joints in X,Y,Z space, and print out the lengths and angles for all the pieces!Dennis Ferronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03601234553344631838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-28742673683128452022009-01-23T12:00:00.000-05:002009-01-23T12:00:00.000-05:00Ken,<BR/><BR/>Stay tuned -- I've made some pretty massive improvements to the script. You could practically lay out all of the mitering for a bicycle frame now.<BR/><BR/>More soon.<BR/>NickNick Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09742551843387605596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6181310435977891397.post-57752727693457516582009-01-23T09:34:00.000-05:002009-01-23T09:34:00.000-05:00Nice work. I will definately keep this tool available for when I do PVC tube joining. I often use PVC tubing in my set designs. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>KenKen Junkinsnoreply@blogger.com