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Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 10:31:18

I'm going to be away from the Internet for a while.
So any suggestions to what might amuse one, and are freely download-able?


Everything goes :)

Title: What to download?
Post by: Chemistry4me on 09/12/2010 11:10:39

Are you going to find polar bears?

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 11:41:31

Nice to have a pet :)

They are very white with me..

Title: What to download?
Post by: Geezer on 09/12/2010 18:17:10

Here you go. You can do some really fancy simulations with this. It graphs velocity, acceleration, momentum, angular momentum etc etc.

http://www.askoh.com/freecad/index.html

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 19:16:08

Thnx Geezer, it seems real nice.
Xmas comes early  :)

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Quite advanced in fact..
Take me a year to understand :)

And you do that one for fun?

Hmmm.

won't have any problem with free time anymore.

Title: What to download?
Post by: Geezer on 09/12/2010 19:26:46

It's very nicely put together too. It just occurred to me that it might be nice if we could post the annimations it produces into threads.

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 19:36:37

Yeah it seems cool, looking at a video

Seems like you could have done a simulation of that 'middle of the earth' problem with it too?
Impressive.

Title: What to download?
Post by: Geezer on 09/12/2010 19:50:18

It might be possible to use it to simulate the "journey through the center of the Earth" problem. JP's point is that the force exerted on the body is the same as the force exerted by a spring.

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 19:54:40

two minds one thought :)

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 19:55:07

Maybe I should have expressed that differently?

   ::))

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 19:57:28

You know how to use it?
If you do then  :)
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You can also simulate the Coriolis force in it, it seems.

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 20:10:03

But I don't get where the patch should be installed?
It says that it will overwrite directories but there's no such directories??

I mean freecad9.pcl??
Do you know?

ahhh :)

Not directories.. a file.

Title: What to download?
Post by: Geezer on 09/12/2010 20:25:24

Quote from: yor_on on 09/12/2010 20:10:03

But I don't get where the patch should be installed?
It says that it will overwrite directories but there's no such directories??

I mean freecad9.pcl??
Do you know?

ahhh :)

Not directories.. a file.

It's been a long time since I installed it, so I can't remember. Yes, I have used it quite a bit, mainly for kinematic simulations. Some of the more advanced stuff is a bit beyond me, but I think it will let you do just about anything.

I have to take the dogs out now or they'll have me for lunch, but I'll poke around with the installation thing when I get back.

Title: What to download?
Post by: yor_on on 09/12/2010 20:34:22

 No it's ok, it was a file that got overwritten. This thing about overwriting directories fooled me for a moment. I'll try it later too :)