Pattern CD Poll

[dbfletcher]

I think we are starting to see that even if this endevour is worthwhile, it probably wont be a simple matter.

With that being said, let start a poll to help determin if we should just let the previous threads die, or if there is enought interest to continue to try and work thru any/all issues.

[juergen]

yes to pattern CD

[cestout]

I vote no because it would be impractical and soon be obsolete because new free patterns and projects keep showing up. What we need to do is keep the pattern sharing thread for sharing patterns and projects and limit comments. A better idea, I have posted this previously, would be to add a pattern and project area so each shared pattern or project would be a new thread. That would make searches easier and allow comments on each item to be related to that item.
Clint

[Ike]

I too voted no, I make a comment more of a joke, better yet we can make a CD and give it away for free! But thinking it over and reading other member's post I agree with ever changing patterns everyday it would become a daily job to keep up! Plus from my understanding of GNU it seems to be more of a honor bound agreement without and real legal binding. So I agree with Pratyeka it will not stop guys like the e-bay guy from making and selling a CD.

I can only seeing this hurting us in the long run as we continue to try to involve LHR. If we continue to push it and make it a legal issue I see losing the ability of sharing patterns and possibly the forum. This is my opinion, so I suggest as mentioned to continue sharing patterns in the pattern sharing thread without conversation......(LOL!) Anyway I am sorry some have dial up, but they still can download a pattern!

Anyway that is my 2 cents worth! PS, Doug I think the ideal was great and the intent is genuine, but the application impractical.

Ike

[jpaluck]

Doug...probably right..LOL but I know from your other posts I beleive you are quite knowledgble on programming....it would be fairly easy on their part right? and not super time consuming?...I might be wrong but that would be my guess based on the way as a pattern vendor you upload things to CW to sell. wouldn't prevent a guy like on e-bay..actually would make it easier for him to download and cherry pick the good ones with ease...but would make it easy for all who use the forum and it would actually be a nice selling feature for LHR to promote to help sell machines..their are some really nice patterns there and some that are so so but it would sure make it easy to look at and search for. I actually see it as an oppurtunity for LHR...no other site I have been on cnc wise shares as much as this forum..why not capitalize on it. All the things loaded to the zbrush site are free and made by members..they even have quality control as far as weather the texture whatever is good enough an meets the paremeter here is the link for an example http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/downloadcenter/ and all free. would be a nice selling feature for LHR and a nice user's feature

[oldjoe]

I voted yes but not sure what you are talking about.

[atauer]

I'm not going to actively participate in this thread, but would like to share some insight that may not have been thought of before...

A pattern sharingcd/dvd would be a great idea, but there are numerous things that you must consider.

1. Who would be in charge of obtaining all patterns, storing said patterns, and creating the discs?

2. With the amount of new patterns being added, you would have to have a way of distinguishing which patterns were newly added and which ones were old, and then create new discs with said patterns.

3. The costs of creating said discs could get expensive.

All in all, I personally like the idea. Unfortunately though, there are numerous obstacles that you would have to tackle to achieve something like this, and unless you are truly motivated, you will more than likely encounter numerous issues.

Again, not trying to shoot down the idea, just wanted to make sure you guys are aware of the obstacles you would have to deal with, and those obstacles are just the tip of the iceberg.

[Digitalwoodshop]

I replied don't care... I am not interested in having 6 thousand patterns in memory. I am interested in being able to look for a new pattern that I need QUICK and give the customer a chance to pick.

I needed a Lion pattern the other day. Went to the Pattern Depot and found 26 choices and sent it to the customer. I got a reply for the Lion 2 and purchased it. Had the download in a few minutes. The the part where I activate the license ran into the usual error cycle. An hour later still no License... Gave up and will try it again today....

I am doing something wrong with the user id or password... Do it 40 times the same way and finally it takes.... Makes me wonder if it is something between servers at LHR.

Made a dozen attempts today still no luck... Will resort to calling LHR...

AL

Update: Called LHR and had it done in 30 seconds... Thanks LHR... Old Dog... Need to be smarter than the computer...

[fwharris]

My concern/thoughts on this is that it will take a lot of time to put this together if one is going to sort out all of the bad patterns that are really not good for carving. There are a lot of patterns in the share section with a lot of good ones to be had. If the bad are not sorted out the I think the CD would not be a good thing. When I first got started with the forum I would down load and save the pattern or mpc with out looking at it first. Found that I had a boat load of stuff that was not the best and spent a lot of time going back to get rid of them. Now when one is posted I open it first to see and if good then save.. if not it goes away...

I do understand why this idea was started do to the guy on ebay!!

[jpaluck]

Agree with pratyeka...not gonna stop the e-bay guy...I e-mailed e-bay from my sellers account they said they would look into it...I agree the disk would become dated fast...website and downloads all organized would be the way to go, like doug said with thumbnails...even that would be a large undertaking...sites are fairly cheap...I pay like 100 bucks a year I think for hosting or a little cheaper...it's the maintence that would be a nightmare..or a lot of work for no pay. Honestly, the reason I don't add the patterns I share here on my site also is the laziness factor of uploading the files the pictures and adding them to the page.

My vote was doesn't care.

As far as dial-up-service..or what Ike called it..LOL Hillbilly connection ( love it Ike)...I would be curious how many people are still using that.