Equipment/Computer CAD Workstation
Class Green equipment: Negligible risk. No formal training is required or offered. If you need help just grab the nearest member and ask.
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Introduction
The big Dell computer with the 30 inch monitor is our CAD workstation.
Owners
Important stuff
The workstation is protected by Deep Freeze. This means that any changes you make will not be retained over a reboot. This includes any files that are not stored in the J: drive (on the desktop as *ThawSpace*). Any files not in this specific place will disappear whenever the machine is restarted. This also means that while you're welcome to use the admin account (the password is 'admin') to make changes to the configuration, add software, delete the windows partition etc, any such changes will *also* not be retained.
Software
We have a limited selection of CAD software installed already, the easiest way to check is to click on the windows icon and see what pops up in the shortcut menu. As of 21/12/2015 we appear to have:
- Cura 15.04.3
- Inkscape 0.91
- Eagle (community edition) 7.4.0
- SketchUp
- OpenSCAD
- Rhino 5
- Autodesk Fusion 360
In addition to these we have Chrome installed, and can confirm that Onshape (web based parametric CAD) works with the SpaceMouse.
To request more software, or to report issues, please either use the mailing list (preferable) or email the owners on computers@makespace.org
Connecting your laptop / pi / etc
There should be a free USB and DisplayPort cable just to the right of the monitor, connect your laptop here and use the USB switcher to connect the mouse etc to it. Please don't unplug anything!
Specification
- Dell Precision T7400 with 2 x 3.0Ghz X5472 Xeon processors
- 4GB RAM
- Mechanical disk of some kind (we plan to upgrade this to an SSD)
- GeForce GTX 460 GPU
- Dell U3014 monitor
- 3DConnexion SpaceMouse Pro
- 3DConnexion CADMouse
- Keyboard (Thermaltake eSports MEGA G1)
