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		<title>DXF Kiss Cut challenges/ using a vibro-etcher to cut card stock.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I have been thinking about doing is setting up a parametric equations using heekscad for a generic pop-up shape export it out to DXF for direct import into my sisters pazzle inspiration software. The idea was to have a model layout and then automatically re-generated the shape wider or flatter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=315</link>
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		<title>Doing a little pop-up card research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister had suggested that I go to boards to take a look at the pop-up cards that they had at Borders.  My daughter and I went for a trip. My plan was initially to look for a book on pop-up while my daughter was looking at the toy section.  It turns out the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Road trip results on the heekscad dxf to pazzle inspiration experiment.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The road trip out to my sister&#8217;s was interesting and fruitful. I got to test out my Heekscad generated DXF file to import to the Pazzles software it exposed some issues I need to work through. These are necessarily problems with anyone&#8217;s software just as I said thinks I got to work out. Need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=292</link>
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		<title>Trying out heekscad for my pop-up card project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across some links on reprap blogs about tutorials regarding heekscad. I&#8217;ve had my eye on this application for a while, and have been wanting to contribute to the development, but life has sort of getting in the way of that. Anyway.. Here&#8217;s the link to the reprap site that has some links to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=284</link>
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		<title>More foundation work on the Pop-up project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the paper cutter that I have access too is a Pazzles Inspiration.  Interesting machine.  I&#8217;m looking forward to playing with it a bit. The Inspiration uses a WPC file format.  I downloaded a file off the net to peek into it. I was hoping that it might something like G-code or DXF but unfortunately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=276</link>
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		<title>More on my pop up card project.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across an interesting free e-book called the Fundamentals of Paper Engineering Design by Angel David Guzman of PixelOz Designs A link can be found here: http://pixeloz.deviantart.com/ Going through the book around page 21  the author talks about Blender which is something I&#8217;ve played with. Let&#8217;s there at least a couple of ways to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=273</link>
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		<title>Playing Around with Paper Engineering Pop ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife is in the middle of starting up a business and I&#8217;m interested in make a promotional pop-up ad for her. This is sort of cool for me because in my college days my area of focus with kinematic design&#8230; I found a bunch of interesting resources&#8230; On line this was sort of cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=267</link>
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		<title>Trying to figure out where this Scooba 5900 part goes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently bought a broken scooba off of craigslist.  The person I bought it from tried fixing it and had a couple of part left over. I&#8217;m trying to get this thing put back together to figure out what&#8217;s going wrong.. Any help would be appreciated.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=258</link>
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		<title>Playing around with heekscad again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;t been a while since I&#8217;ve been messing around with heekscad. I was in 8.04 still and now I&#8217;m on ubuntu 10.04 I fired up rapidsvn and download the source no problem. I opened up the project file with code:blocks to see what happens. Seems like I&#8217;m missing something. &#124;&#124;=== HeeksCAD, Debug ===&#124; /usr/lib/wx/include/gtk2-unicode-release-2.8/wx/setup.h&#124;1079&#124;warning: &#8220;HAVE_IOSTREAM&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=251</link>
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		<title>Trying to get the codelite debugger to work in Ubuntu linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok&#8230; I&#8217;m trying to get the codelite debugger to work in Ubuntu Linux.  It seems to be having some issues at the moment. So&#8230; I&#8217;m at the code lite website:http://codelite.org/LiteEditor/Debugging I have my project open and active&#8230;. I press the F5 key.. Hmm.. does it work &#8230; Nope&#8230; A couple of things seems to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metalshaperman.com/?p=248</link>
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