AutoCADD is an extremely powerful drafting tool. It has enabled accuracy in drawing barely imaginable thirty years ago. AutoCADD has taken a lot of the guesswork out of locating routes for roads, locations for underwater foundations, and even space research. It is so accurate that it can give commands to an electronically controlled saw to cut wood to the thousandth of an inch. That’s what we use it for in MIL; to cut out robot parts and copper circuit boards. The machine is called a t-tech machine, and presents specific problems that must be addressed in AutoCADD. Specifically, we have to leave little holes in the outlines of the things to be cut in order to anchor the object in place, and account for the width of the blade in cutting. First we’ll learn about AutoCADD, then come back to learn the specific applications for the MIL Lab.
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Easy Icyicles tutorial at photoshop, Step 1 Create a new documents, make the background black and white and use the elliptical marquee tool to draw a circle and fill it with white. Step 2 Use Filter –> Stylize –> Extrude You might want to play with the values to create different shapes of icicles. Step 3 Now go to Filter –> Distort –> Polar Coordinates.. Choose Polar to Rectangular Step 4 Hit CTRL-U and pick a nice blue for your icicles (c) 2006 Photoshop Tutorials by Photoshop Jungle.
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