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@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2026-09-06 22:25:37

Got my digitizer setup on my 486 and it's working in Microstation. Lot of nostalgia for this particular config.
#retrocomputing
#microstation
#cad

picture of an LCD with a black screen and the handmade words "Hi, Mastodon". below that is a 1990's gateway 2000 keyboard and a large Summagraphics II digitizer board. a hand is holding the 4-button pointer. some other retro systems are visible to each side.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2026-06-23 16:22:59

#SolveSpace is supremely suited to quickly do some technical drawings. Handed this to our institute's machinist and they were very happy to make me the part 😊
#CAD #3dDesign

Solvespace PDF export of a three-part design, two gray tubes with holes for two screws each, and a cyan connector cylinder in the center, with dimensions and notes everywhere
photo of the assembled finished part. A pole from the left has the part stuck into it and fixed with two screws, on the right-hand side there's a Hukseflux NR01 net radiometer (to measure incoming and outgoing short-wave and long-wave radiation) attached