I decided to under cut my fireplace to install laminate flooring. It turned out okay all things considered.

I only broke out one brick on the corner to make room for other big pieces. It should be easy to grout back in with a squeeze tube.

Holy fuck….run floor up to brick, leave1/4 gap<br>Silicone base shoe to flooring ….jesus dude

If you don’t want to use adhesive angle your trim nailer and shoot the base shoe to the floor thru the gap.Not happening now…It still needs base shoe anyway. Sheeez …you could have also used a door way transition as trim….nope you chose the hardest most fucked up way possible.

Not picking on you op it looks good<br>But damn brother talk about an easy deal made hard and messy.

I like seeing people make the effort to make things look nice, instead of just slapping on some quarter round.

>>2790023
Youre a fucking idiot it needs trimmed even after that shit show. Never in 40+ years have I EVER seen anyone under cut brick EVER

Prez/o/

>>2789975
Smart move bud. Allowing an 1/8” gap for movement and finishing with a quarter round makes far too much sense, you did the right thing.

Anonymous

It's never going to look quite right unless you add a little trim over the top. Mainly because the brain sees 'brick above wood' and knows that shit doesn't make any sense structurally. You need to re-introduce the impression that the brick continues downwards to ground, and adding trim at this edge is the only good way to achieve this now.

>>2790042
>>2790023
>>2789975
Samefagging cringefest leave diy now never to return.

Prez/o/

>>2790052
Stupid newfag, each time your shitty laminate floor creaks due to improper expansion gap think of my fat cock sliding in your mothers anus

Anonymous

That looks like shit and no hearth is probably not to code

>>2790064
Being this stupid….is there an adult there with you Lester ?

Had to show this one around the shop this morning <br>Great laughs to start the week off

Hey OP cant wait to see you undercut the bath tub

OP would respond but hes still cleaning the dust from the whole fucking house

>>2790118
Derp derp

>>2789975

if that's a working fireplace, it needs min 16 inches of tile in front of it for the occasional flying ember

>>2789975
how do you even have the skills to do this and still come up with this shit?

>>2789975
>OP doesn't ask how do I laminate
>OP doesn't ask how do I brick
>OP doesn't ask what is that wood that goes around edges
>OP uses tools
>OP does a project
>project looks nice
>/diy/ loses it's fucking mind

>>2790158
My guess is a diamond blade on a side cutting grinder…the dust had to be off the chart

>>2790118
It seems to be an american thing
I saw someone on /out/ put a wood burner on top of beige fucking carpet

>>2790186
Yeah fuck you its an idiot thing nigger

>>2790192
An idiot thing only americans seem to do

Ok here. Not same fagging like some retard hopes. I'm doing the whole upstairs in one piece floating floor, no transitions. I'm not going to use trim on brick, then I'd have to grout/caulk that to the brick and it would never look good. Maybe I'll do something different on my basement fireplace.

>>2789976
>>2789977
Caulk that hole boy. You won't want to regret having fleas under the floor.

>>2790157
That must come from some sissy code book. You ever actually ran a hot fireplace before? If a spark is flying, you best believe it'll kobe bryant past 16 inches

>>2789976
>>2789977
looks good
fuck them haters

>>2790302
>whole upstairs in one piece floating floor,
anything other than carpet upstairs is woeful lol.
>americans wear shoes indoors
i love sitting in my house hearing cunts stomp and clatter around upstairs lol

>>2789975
you know what fair play for doing it, no idea what cunts are on about dust or whatever clearly you are going manual mode making a reasonable job of it.
>>2790047
this is my only concern, personally i would look at it and think hold on...
>>2790157
looks like ops brick is what the hearth sits on. there is already some tile up there and then an odd looking trim (odd looking because theres only breaks for the corners lol is it plastic?)
i would have just tried to mirror the top edging on the bottom.

>>2790322
>anything other than carpet upstairs is woeful lol
Fuck that the house has carpet upstairs when we bought it. Dog piss soaked carpets. The corner trim on the brick is foam, presumably for "safety". We have 2 small kids so I'll keep it on for now.

>>2789975
Why do you want to make it look like firebrick is bearing on wood?

>>2789975
thats some good meth, nice job!

>>2790026
Quarter round in any house is shit tier nigger work it's fucking ugly brother

>>2789975
Diamond blade on a jamb saw

t. Hardwood floor guy

>>2791407
Used a diamond blade on my angle grinder. Almost finished the room now, just wrapped the otherwise of the fire place. I have 4.87 rows to go, feels good not having a tiny piece at the end.

t. OP

>>2791407
is this as sketchy to use as a toe kick saw?

>>2789975
>Posting on /Diy/
>Not poorly rebuilding your entire fireplace to fix an easily fixed, often encountered problem
You're doing it wrong, OP

>>2789976
>That gap
You should have lowered the whole fireplace, anon

>>2790448
this 100% quarter round anywhere looks like absolute dogshit. OPs work looks clean and nearly seamless. fuck all you autistic collars who think "bUt BrIcK sHoUlDnT bE oN wOoD" fuck you it looks way nicer than transition and caulk.

>>2791525
Thanks some of these retards don't even own tools let alone a house. Ive been doing it piecemeal after working my full time job. Wrapped the otherwise of the fireplace yesterday, I chipped the board a bit but plan on building a book shelf there anyway. Just 1 full row and a partial left to do.

>>2790157
Just get a steel mesh ember guard . Problem solved

>>2792566
He shouldn't have tried a project this scale for his first diy. Obviously.
>>2792559
There's always next time OP! Bonus marks for the dedication without a pussy assed question uttered. You f'ed up all by yourself and I'm proud of you.

>>2790026
As flooring installer with over 20 years of experience, I always undercut the hearth. It looks better and is fairly simple to do with anyone of 3 methods.
1. An undercut saw
2. A grinder
3. An oscillating saw

>>2789975
Nice job anon. Looks very professional. That is the proper way. I usually use my oscillating saw with a shop vac attachment. They make a special saw for undercutting brick and stone, but the price is absurd, and I have yet to find one at any tool rental places.

>>2792566
>>2792570
Are you that same faggot from earlier samefagging about the quarter round? Upset because any retard can do your job and better than you at that? Sorry nigger turns out installing laminate floors and baseboard isn't actually a skilled trade and you are equivalent to a Mexican roofer in respectability and skill

Shloppy work….only retards would do this

>>2792942
>>2792903
>>2792570
Not involved in any of this shit. truthfully I have seen laminate fuck ups cause huge gaping holes down the line, but I cant fathom why anyone would be this tilted over something like this. Plenty of houses built the normal way have weird shit like this anyway.

>>2792559
looks good to me op even if i think you are kind of crazy. better than 90% of the threads on here

>>2789975
Good job OP, quarter round is for lazy people

Still samefagging
Narcissist cannot handle any form of criticism
>>2793234
Its called base shoe idiot. Quarter round is an entirely different thing

>>2792940
Oh no no no no! He'll sit down in front of the warm fire, ready to catch any flying ember and all the time being reminded of how he permanently f'd up with making his fireplace look like it stands on laminate by that creeping saw cut.

One of the guys at our union hall posted this picture on the bulletin board.

Its been the talk of the shop for days. It really is hard to believe. Especially to also brag about it.

>>2793889
which union, the guys who lay bricks or the guys who install floors?
also were you the one who posted it?

>>2793898
Go back to fagbook boy this isnt a chat room

>>2789975
Looks good OP, Much tidier than scotia beading.

>>2790302
> I'm doing the whole upstairs in one piece floating floor, no transitions.
I'm a bit concerned about this.
I work in flooring in the UK and see builders and DIYers do this all the time, I also see the failures as different areas have different temperatures and humidity, so the laminate lifts at the ends and fails.

>>2792940
anytime I walked by and saw that gap I would feel shame for what I'd done, good on OP for overcoming that

>>2793889
>Its been the talk of the shop for days
More than likely the union guys are amazed that someone actually did some work rather than just standing around at the union hall patting each other on the back.

>>2789976
>>2789977
genuinely looks decent bud

>>2792559
Ok job but personally I feel like the 'weight' of the brick fireplace is gone now that you can tell the brick is floating. So it feels fake to me. I'd have gone for some subtle baseboard. But god speed anon

>>2797036
OP here. Can you find even 1 picture of someone who did this? I couldn't, not on brick or stone at least.

>>2797104
>Can you find even 1 picture of someone who did this?

>>2797113
None of those show base board on stone.

>>2797116
because that would look like shit. when he said "subtle" I assumed that was his way of saying shoe or quarter round. go ahead and USE THE EXACT SAME METHOD to slap bigassed base around your bricks.

and have your eyes checked.

>>2797120
That's very clearly brick cut to allow the baseboard to slide under, which is no different than what I did

Still defending your ignorant fuckup I see.<br>No you dont use base on brick, the proper way to run into brick is either buy or make a transition you turtle herder.


DIY House, really that expensive?

So housing is too expensive as it is and I've been feeling ambitious as of late. So more and more I've been interested in taking a task like this. I have the know how and I have family that have built homes before that have taught me the ropes as well as would be willing to help, but I'm not sure about having the time at least right now, so it's more of a future project. People are saying 5000 sq ft would cost anywhere between 400k to 1 mil, so 10,000 sq ft they would estimate as more. 10467 sq ft total living space, fireplace, and basement are in the plans. Planning to build on the west coast, Anchorage Alaska, or in a few options in Russia. Foundations are the most expensive thing to build, so I could take care of that to cover labor costs. Does anybody have estimates for this being viable below 1 mil? Or would you say this is pointless dreaming?

Plan in question:
https://www.dreamhomesource (dot)
 com/plan/10467-square-feet-6-bedroo<wbr>m-6-50-bathroom-2-garage-sp115954

>>2790674
You sound like you're at the stage where it's pointless dreaming but you can get to where it's doable it just won't be quick or easy. My uncle did something like this (did much of the labor himself, used contractors where it was necessary) but he'd been in real estate/construction for most of his life. You also need to consider things like property taxes and the cost of upkeep. But first you need to figure out what it would cost you, which you can if you do the research.

>>2790674
>wants to diy a 5,000sqft mansion in russia

lol. lmao, even.

>>2790793
>10000 sq ft
>Russia
If I'll have citizenship then what's the issue?

>>2790674
>or in a few options in Russia
this is how you do it
just get some local drunkards to help you dig a shallow hole and shovel some concrete in it
then start laying aerated concrete blocks around the foundations
easy as shit. unless you're gonna build in a seismically active area then you are completely fucked because building out of any masnory there increases effort tremendously, it is very much possible but you need to pour loads of reinforced concrete now
>10000sqft
forget it lmao

>>2790674
These days, the house isn't what's expensive, it's the land.

>>2790816
Have fun losing all your money

>>2790687
>I don't know anything about it but my uncle might know something about it but yeah you'd need to learn more about it
Great post, thanks.

>>2790674
Steel barn houses are 1/3 the price. NEXT

>>2791778
Stone is superior to steel, both in appearance and function

>>2790674

Positives:
>complete customisation, you will be able to build the house for what you need instead of a housebuilder doing what's quick & easy and will sell
>It will likely be cheaper than than buying one.
>you pick the location

Why everyone doesn't do it:
>It is high risk, even if you do everything perfectly something catastrophic could happen.
>land is expensive and can be hard to get correctly zoned land.
>depending on where you live, planning permission is hell. It's slow, costs a lot and your entire project can get fucked over because of some 60 year old NIMBY or a single mature tree
>the process can take multiple years

>>2790816
> doesn't know how he is going to get robbed and gulag'd, unironically naive
Look forward to reading about you in the news

>>2790674
this already sounded overly ambitious if not straight retarded but
>in Russia
convinced me you are trolling

>>2790674
The amount of labor you personally put in for building yourself a 10k square foot house is going to be a drop in the bucket of the overall cost, unless you're legitimately doing it solo which would take you like half a decade plus. Even at $200 per sqft which is at the impossibly low end for custom new home construction, with 10k sqft you're looking at 2 million dollars.

I'm in a really lucky financial situation where I don't have to work and plan the same.
>I earn around 2k€ passive net income per month with my wife an additional 2k€
>I have an old house that I will probably be able to sell for around 200k, and around 100k in liquid money.
>additionally, I can get a subsidy financial loan from the government, will probably total around 300k with around 1.1k eur payment per month for 30y

any other europoors that actually build their own house?

I plan to do the following, 150sqm EG - 100sqm OG, no cellar:

>Foundation by contractor - 150sqm - around 60k €
>Outer walls with ICF/Neoporbetonschalungssteine - myself - around 50k€
>concrete for filling ICF + pump - contractor - 25k€
>Pitched roof by contractor - 40k€
>Filigrandecke by contractor - 20k€
>Sewage/Water system - contractor - 30k €
>heatpump - contractor - 20k€
>floorheating - myself - 10k€
>electricity - from an uncle - 2k€
>drywalling, plaster, paint - myself - 10k€
>windows - myself - 10k€
>doors - myself - 5k€
>miscellaneous - 50k€

around 340k for the raw construction.
I would use around 60k to get the house completely done with myself once again, my buffer would be around 200k€ which I plan to buy down the loan depending on circumstances.

I plan to build in a small nice village near a capital city and the only thing thats making me queazy is the local gov fucking me over

>>2790674
Keep in mind you're gonna have to live there for the rest of your live because you're never gonna be able to sell it

>>2791778
Even better, steel construction with stone siding for material savings

>>2795731
good, keeps faggot descendants from selling your property and land and forces them to live in it

>>2796175
Or they'll just sell it for someone to tear down and set up their own thing. If OP already put in water, electricity and sewage it's prime real estate

>>2790674
If you knew anything about home building, you would never take on a build over 2000sqft solo

I do large renovations solo and just a good remodel without major structural changes takes a year. Imagine what having to do everything would take

That doesn't even mention that a small house is $100k+ in materials before foundation

I find it's around $80-$100 per square foot of materials for a house no matter how you slice it. Due to:
- Roof
- Insulation
- Exterior Cladding
- Structural Members
- Flooring
- Interior Finish Work
- Windows
- Doors
- Plumbing Materials
- Electrical Materials

The raw cost ends up being higher than you'd expect. Picking pennies can really keep costs down to 1/3rd of "a modern nice finished home". For example, a hardwood floor can cost you $25k, or a similar laminar floor like those cheap apartments can cost you $3k. That's the kind of stuff that will add up if you buy the expensive option time after time.

You could always have no insulation, and no floors, and save like $30/sq ft. But is that really worth it? Only you can decide.

Good luck op.

>>2790674
A home like that doesn't make your life better because instead of you owning it, it owns you and not so many years from now you'll be too old and damaged to care for it.

You want it to show off. What makes that an intelligent use of money?

Building anything in Russia is stupid and tells 4chan you're wisdom-averse and make silly therefore poor choices. Do you own your current home? What is your income? What makes grandiose cost center displays the best use of that income?

How many years will you even use it? Do you have other life interests or will you be like that autspergtarded audiophile who blew megabucks on his sound system which went for couch money when he croaked?

>>2790674
>10467 sqft
anon for that money you could move to france and buy a literal castle
https://www.my-french-house.com/pro<wbr>perty-in-france/ayen-corr%C3%A8ze-n<wbr>ouvelle-aquitaine/chateau/83997

>>2790674
assuming it's not a troll, if you're planning on building in Russia, buy a smaller plot of land and build a dacha first, made using the same materials and building techniques. this will give you some experience to use toward the main build, and after completing the smaller project, you'll get a better idea as to the feasibility.

>>2790674
>5000 sq ft would cost anywhere between 400k to 1 mil,
Is the cost to build or to buy? I am sure you can find 5000k hoses under 1 mil in many cheaper states.

>>2790674
>russia or alaska
Have fun losing all your money on heating bills each month so the house doesn't fall apart or explode.

>>2790793
>>2791738
>>2793768
These 12 year olds watched CNN and it shows.

>>2798553
True. Imagine a child coming into a diy house thread ready to give input.


Is there anyway how to get Solidworks for free? Solid Edge has free license for hobbyists but I would like Solidworks since its more popular. <br>I dont want to pirate it unless its only option.

Have you tried onShape? It is surprisingly good for being web-based CAD software. Been using it for free for years.

>>2785898
I have but I dont like web-based apps.

>>2785912
then mail me a fucking letter and I'll tell you how to do it without using the web.

>>2785897
pirate it or get it through your institution
so probably pirate it

You can sketch on freecad too. You can even simulate with add ons and do the complex shapes instead of sketching them like screw threads.

>>2785897
Just pirate it like 99% of people do
>muh torrents aren't safe
Skill issue.
Or just purchase a license with a cloned cc, they're pretty cheap anyway.

Sieg

>>2785898
Not intuitive imo I really ducking locked fusion man but they got greedy with it

Fusion worked well with people coming from solidworks and inventor

Anonymous

>>2785897
>I dont want to pirate it unless its only option.

Learn to use a computer. There's no excuse for not getting comfy on the high seas. If you can learn CAD you can learn piracy. I've pir8ed since 1999 and many here much longer.

>>2786128
I don't know if it's a wives tale but I basically never pirated solidworks because apparently it phones home. If they find out you made any money using the program they sic a lawyer on you for like $3k and say pay us and we will give us a license; don't and we will ruin your ass.

I'd probably only use it with advanced fire walls and an airgapped pc.

>>2786243
>install with wifi turned off
>block it via firewall
>cut your balls off so you can't spread your retard genes
>???
>profit
You have no business being nowhere near a computer.

>>2785897
you will need a seperate computer without a modem to effectively use high dollar pirated software. you will never prevent it from phoning home if it wants to.

>>2786243
> If they find out you made any money using the program

Lot of heavy lifting being done by the word "if" here.

That being said a license isn't very expensive if actually you're making money via solidworks.

>>2785897
>>2785978
>>2786078
dassault systems releases cracks and keygens for their own products on many torrent sites and then the telemetry in their software will let them pull enough information from your computer to determine if you are a business or employee or not. If you are or ever do work for someone, they will note down every file you touch and just wait until you rack up about a million bucks in damages before they reach out to you with a lawsuit.
Depending on the situation, they just force you to buy a real license, but its always at their discretion.

this happened to me at my work btw.
employee was running windows 7 and it was eol and time to upgrade, they were not paying the $1000 a year grift so their license key was useless unless they paid $5000 in back fees for all the license maintenance they didnt pay.
I decided fuck it and cracked it and 3 years later they made us buy a new license or they were going to sue us.

>>2787299
I meant to add
if you do crack their software, either run it in a vm or run it on a dedicated laptop and keep it offline or on a vpn.
you are generally safe as a hobbyist, but their telemetry is invasive and really you should not be okay with that.

>>2785913
Shut up faggot. Web based cloudshit is bottom of the barrel and HTML5 and javascript have been forced to do so much shit (poorly) and so much of your information is scraped you should avoid it like the plague.

>>2787301
Are all torrented solidworks with telemetry? I downloaded a cracked version a while ago and the installation wasn't straightforward, it asked me to disable the internet connection and use local license that was generated on my pc

>>2785897
FreeCAD, openSCAD, Solvespace, or whatnot should do pretty fine. They're open source and free as well.

>>2787299
I had this happen to me.
Never used 3d cad but had to design a rd shield for a pcb I was making.
Downloaded solidworks from a torrent, installed it, found it too complicated for a beginner so closed it and did what I needed with some freeware shit.

Few weeks later the owner of the company got an email from siemens saying a computer in the company was running a pirated version of their software. They wanted like €2000 or something for a licence but the owner decided to argue with them and they came down on him.
Of course the torrent I downloaded was the full version with every add on you can think of so they came back to him looking for like 30k.
Week or two later I got a new job and left

>>2785897
Im getting stressed just looking at that thing trying to think how am i supposed to machine that thing on 3 axis cnc and what to say and how to complain on time

Sieg

>>2787712
1 op, 2 rotations,

First top, profile circle, drill holes , profile lower shelf, hog out with an insert em in steps, finish with a finish em p decent stick out

Rotate towards solid jaw, new origin , profile rounded corner and support fin, rotate towards solid jaw again profile other round side and fin or just pop her in a fixture where you cut out a relief for the part

>>2787501
Why is it machine shop owners are always cheap pieces of shit,

Last week the owner of my shop, bitched about how I did a crappy job programming a part . I just hit page up twice so that he could see his own name under the setup notes denoting that he wrote that shit not me

Then he just went “oh, we’ll do better when making parts think about how you can make them better” and walked off

Then bitched that I was watching the machine while proofing it rather than sweeeping or wiping random
Shit down

Anonymous

>>2787262
>you will need a seperate computer without a modem to effectively use high dollar pirated software. you will never prevent it from phoning home if it wants to.
exactly, I only run unpirated software or linux on most machines.

You want to pirate, not only run on separate machine for muh "no phone home" there is also an aspect of "no phone to trojan HQ". Not saying that all pirated software is trojan'ed, but if say 0.5% of it is and you got a lot of stuff, probably you're gonna get trojaned. Heck even vanilla linux some guy tried to trojan with the .xz exploit recently

>>2785986
>freecad
did they ever fix the fatal flaw? I used it for some simple stuff for 3D printing, but was hoping they would fix it.

Sieg

>>2787860
>just hit page up twice so that he could see his own name under the setup notes denoting that he wrote that shit
Kek

Anonymous

>>2786243
If you're making money with pirated software, pay for a license or to get sued eventually. If you're just using it to learn you'll probably be ok

>>2787381
i just use simplewall to stop any of it from using the network
been using cracked sw since 2014

>>2785897
>>2786243
>>2787299
>>2787501
>>2788889
Damn, I've been using cracked Solidworks and have never even thought about this stuff. Guess I'm fucked lads.
Sadly I'm not an engineer so my stuff is only hobbyist grade.
As a side note does anyone have good learning resources for Solidworks? Always looking to improve.

>>2785897
Do people really shit on the streets that often in India?

>>2790460
does the tin man have a sheet metal cock?

Isn't like $50 a year for hobbyists or something? Just buy the subscription you broke bitch.

>>2789666
Solidworks Phones Home only if it's ever been online. As long as you're not a complete retard that operated SW on an internet capable PC then you're fine.

I have an offline computer just for running solidworks

>>2785897
I love these fake, overly complicated part examples that can be made from a single block with 3 holes drilled in it.

Even if you die cast it, you still have to drill the same 3 holes most likely.

>>2785897
I use freecad. Together with a 3d printer is a very powerful combination

I've used many CAD packages but in the end I just bought Rhino. It's not parametric, but I'd rather pay 1k once rather than pay 1k a year forever. Fuck SaaS.

>>2785897
the only way to get it for free is if you're a student and your university has an agreement with dassualt systems to hand out free installs to students
otherwise just pirate it
idk about this "phoning home" shit people are talking about, maybe if you have a domain-joined computer and install a pirated version they'd be able to tell and would try suing your work. I've been pirating it for years for making simple parts to 3d print and have never gotten a letter or anything
although I do run it on linux so maybe they're just impressed I got it to run inside wine

>>2787299
A guy I knew in college was using a pirated version of Solidworks and one day he got an email from them listing every single time he used the software. They know, and they will do something about it eventually.

Someone suggested running sw on a vm, I tried installing our legit sw copy on a vm at the office but it didn't let me.

>>2791193
I use it in a vm (as linux is my main os) and it works fine. It doesn't take much to configure a vm to make it not look like a vm to things like sw

>>2790515
Oh I absolutely have, oh well lads guess it's over.

A legit installation of SW can know if a file was made with a cracked copy. That's why we have to seats at my job now.

>>2787299
Bullshit, i use SW 2022 that i downloaded on piratebay, made over 150k on upwork as my main job, if they charged something reasonable for an independent engineer like me, I'd be ok with buying, but the prices they ask for to get some simulation modules? Fuck you, I'll grab for free and you wont even make a cent from me

>>2790971
My CAD/Additive Manufacturing instructor loved having us make these parts, and even have fusion generate designs like these.

>>2791759
Can other software open their file formats and save them without watermark?

>>2791070
>I've used many CAD packages but in the end I just bought ...
What's about Designspark? Simply the best 3D Sw i ever used, free base version and very affordable.

>>2787480
>FreeCAD, openSCAD, Solvespace
gtfo

Sieg heil

>>2790971
Pro tip, almost all parts on earth are just blocks with holes in it cut to fancy shapes to help sell them

Anonymous

it is incredibly easy to find free version of SW without doing any pirating. I am a student and get it for free, but I remember some Indian on youtube had this tutorial. You just put in the code on the SW website.

>>2786250
Is there a way to force a program to use a custom hosts file?

>>2786250
>>2796458
I mean, a hosts file separate from your main one.

>>2787867
I remember those threads. That was a fun time. I like to think Linus was spasming at his keyboard every time he saw or typed the letters x and z

>>2785897
Holy shit what a garbage model tbqh

>>2788734
>>2787860
some riveting posts from the tripfag

I'm a little bit lay with all this sfotware sorcery and o after reading the thread and some more on the internet I got some questions. The only unavoidable problem seems, as if you make you sure you pirated SD dont get internet conection you are clear, to open a file saved in a pirated software on a legal one, that aparently the file carry info that would trigger a phone home in the legal. So if you make a file in a pirated SD, open in a Opensorce software, and saves it would it still phone home if the file saved in the open sorce was open in legal software? Some what like libre Office changes .txt (word) to .odt or this extensions doesnt really mean much.<br>There is a way to be caught or how to prevent if I take my file made in a pirated software to print, machine, or 3d print in a third party busnisses?

Sieg heil

>>2796559
Solid works doesn’t sign your files unless you have a student version then it marks the file student version forever

You export as an X_T for machining before you start programming for CAD

You export it as an STL for 3D printing or 3mf if newer 3d printing

Printer sliders don’t give a shit where you get your files as long as there aren’t any errors in the import , if there are it will auto repair but it smfucks up a lot

Anonymous

>>2796577
>Solid works doesn’t sign your files unless you have a student version then it marks the file student version forever
oh, from what I was reading online people were saying SD files can have your IP, key code etc saved on it and that when in original or in a pirated SD that has internet conection it, the software, can phone-home sending this infos.

Good to know. So it doesnt seems to to be that much of problem if one gets sure it doesnt get internet acess. I just graduated in eng and I was very against learning softwares as I had a professor that everthing I asked he replied "a software takes care of that" and it annoyed me so much cause in my eyes that isnt engeneering, but as now I'm trying get in the job narket I dont have where to run. maybe being so stubborn was a mistake.

>>2791070

> Rhino
> Not parametric
> It literally comes with a built-in parametric powerful tool that allows you to do anything you want

Retard

>>2785897
>>2785898
onshape is more than adequate for almost all hobbyists - i actually prefer the methods they use to make assemblies and referenced parts to traditional SW for assemblies of less than 30 parts
if you think you're going to properly use SW add-ons like finite element analysis and flow simulation, you are either deluded or already work for someone who can afford to pay for it
SW CAM software is mid at best, avoid unless you're being forced to use it for legacy reasons. same goes for its rendering engine
if onshape isn't good enough, then whatever youre doing is either so complex or so retarded that yes, you will need to pay or pirate SW
>t.SW2012 gigachad

>>2794152
Dassault isn't going to raise your pay.

Sieg heil

>>2796601
The IP address thing smells like bullshit, like I said I’m just a retarded tradie, not a full stack developer or someone that can exploit code

I just cut metal for a living like a low iq fuck wit

Anonymous

>>2791937
Ok and? You pirated 2022, it's 2024. You have one more year or so.

>>2785897
gonna shill a little for solid edge here,
been using it side-by-side with solidworks for a number of years (work has SW, I have solid edge at home). They're practically equivalent if you use the "ordered" environment in solid edge. Theres been a couple of things that are inconvenient on either one vs the other, but anything Ive made in one I can replicate on the other, and the skills transfer.

>>2797238
isn't onshape cloud-slop though?

>>2786243
>never make any money
>never get sued
as a bonus you don't have to pay taxes on what you don't earn

>>2797454
it's browser-trash. also buried in the EULA is the fact that you're not allowed to make any money or use it professionally without a license so it's no better than pirated or Fusion360 for "free" software because the minute you make money you need to buy a license.

>>2785897
what was the last version that did not require the software to connect to the internet (i.e. spied on you)
get this version
???
deal with it

>>2797238
i use fea just a little bit, like for things such as "will this bend with 50kg on it, or does it need to be a bit thicker?" you might only consider fancy usage since smaller people aren't supposed to have it

send them email. hobbyists seems to be their big source of income.

>>2786243
>apparently it phones home
Negro, it's $50/year. If you make money on it just deduct it from your taxes.

>>2787480
Open scad is not normal cad.

It's a bit different but very powerful, most people who want cad should probably not use it.

>>2785897
rutracker.org. Although like others on here have said, FreeCAD is better.

>>2802042
FreeCAD is unintuitive crap. And I tell it to you as design engineer who works in SW, Inventor, NX and ProEngineer.

>>2802066
It's not that it's unintuitive it's bad when you start doing anything else but mushing primitives together

>>2802066
You've surface level skill if thats what you think.

What do people think of Inventor? It's basically the same as Solidworks, and its spyware is only marginally less invasive.

Sieg

>>2802529
They were fucking useless for about 15 years

People that went with autodesk were generally like civil and electrical engineers

Most mechanical dudes went with dassault systems or whatever they call themselves now “sell your information and designs to china systems”

Anonymous

>>2790971
it not a good design to be cast
or really good at all
which they would know if they used the stress modeling features solid works has

>>2787299
>dassault systems releases cracks and keygens for their own products
Fucking based. All you need to do to circumvent this is to lock it in a VM. No more russian vm-escaping ransomware, thanks dassault systemes!