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Bonjour Je desirerais pouvoir ecrire un texte dont le contour soit une decoupe a travers toute l'epaisseur du PCB. Est-ce possible? Dans quelle couche faut-il definir ce texte? Question auxilliaire: Y a-t-il un moyen de generer un fichier dxf decrivant le contour d'un texte? Merci

I need to design a part that attaches to another part with two screws. One screw goes through a pivot hole, while the other screw must go through a curved slot to allow adjustment of the angle between the parts. I want the curved slot to be an arc centered on the first hole. How can I do this? I have drawn two arcs using the Sweep Arc tool, and connected their ends using the Tangent Arc tool. But if I then try to select the enclosed space to pull into a slot, the entire object is selected. What am I missing? How can I make a slot that is an arc? Thanks for all advice. --- Mike   x (x)  

Hi This error screen keeps showing up for me. It happens randomly, but has happened 4 or 5 times in a half an hour working on a relatively simple design. Thank you  

Is it possible to download older versions of DesignSpark PCB? If yes, where?

Investigating to what extend the air quality is affected in the home when a 3D printer is being used. Given the fact the printer will be on for hours sometimes up to 20 hours throughout the day and is using plastic, boiling it at 200 degrees. I wanted to investigate how this affected the air quality in the room where the printer is located.  The printer had been in use two days before and windows opened since, however, on initial measurement the air quality was 2000 rpm. Hence, I opened windows to lower this. Hence, when in actual use I predict the air quality will be even worst perhaps as high as 3000 rpm.  Will be taking measurements without the printer being used firstly to set a baseline for the room.

Hi, If I make my manifacturing plots than I get " None of the plots include the board outline " message. Did I do something wrong?  In some designs I don't have that message, but I don't know what I did different. Many thanks for your help.

Hello, I keep running into this crash all the time. No matter if I'm in sketch mode, solid mode, or move or anything, it will crash. I was running this on a prehistoric potato of a laptop, now I have a new one. No issue with crashing before. But now, on the better machine, it's crash city. Any ideas? I attached scrrenshots of the crash, the laptop specs, and the video. Thanks for any info.

ich habe DesignSpark Mechanical V4.0 installiert und dann V5.0 ausprobiert. Jetzt habe ich V5.0 wieder deinstalliert. Und habe mich für V4.0 entschieden. Kann aber meine Daten aus V4.0 nicht mehr hochladen. Wie kann ich die Dateien aus V4.0 wieder lesen? Mit freundlichen Grüße             Lang

Hi, How can I change the program internal browser ?  I have already tried everything possible but it does not work. What am I doing wrong ? I look forward to help ;)   Best regards

Hi, I am trying to switch off the screen. I am able to enable the screen blanking but the light remains on. Any tips? Thank you. Cheers, Iker.

Just to show that the 'STEP' translation process does retain colour information. DSM step out > CAD Assistant ( free viewer, multi platform, multi devices) step in, step save out. DSM step in. Using the above, colours are transferring accurately. It is unknown whom the DSM STEP authors are.  

If you are having problems getting your ESDK to display sensor readings on its screen, no mqtt data or issues with DesignSpark Cloud the chances are that there is a problem with your configuation file. The file can be found in the Linux filesystem at: /boot/aq/aq.toml It is written in a special format called TOML. You can edit the file by putting the SD card into a Windows / Mac / Linux PC and edit it there but make sure to use a plain text editor that doesn't introduce any hidden formatting characters. The safest way to edit it, is to ssh into the ESDK, make a backup copy and use vi or nano editors: ssh pi@airquality.local   sudo cp /boot/aq/aq.toml /boot/aq/aq.toml.bak   sudo vi /boot/aq/aq.toml Or sudo nano /boot/aq/aq.toml You can validate the file to check for syntax errors etc by installing a TOML validator at the command prompt: pip3 install toml-validator You can then check the file with the following command: toml-validator /boot/aq/aq.toml Here is the output from my working aq.toml If there is a problem it screams - open the editor again and fix the problem, then re-validate until there are no errors. Detailed documentation about configuring the ESDK can be found here: https://docs.designspark.io/projects/aq-device/en/latest/  

My board with 13 of 17 components made by me, and 40 pins, has most air wires wrongly connected after Translate.  Is this a component pin numbering problem?  Should I erase the air wires and route by hand?  How do you erase the air wires?

  I have copied the bevel gear from the start page and would like to scale it with the pull tool but am finding it difficult to do.

  Hello! I am developing a prototype 12V system comprising a solenoid activated by a PIR sensor. I am looking for a timer device so that the power to the solenoid cuts 1 or 2 seconds after activation. This is as a safety back-up. The PIR sensor should cut out after a minute but it's a bit long and sometimes the power to the solenoid is getting stuck on. Would this timer be suitable :RS Stock No.: 178-5026  (https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/timer-relays/1785026?cm_mmc=UK-PLA-DS3A-_-google-_-PLA_UK_EN_Relays_Whoop-_-Timer+Relays_Whoop-_-1785026&matchtype=&pla-419938658867&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI5PCB_rSE9wIVyOvtCh3mPQkXEAQYASABEgLCN_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds be suitable) . Thanks