Time for a test of GT if your up for it.

[John T]

Hi Art,

No luck Gearotic Thoughts won't open for me.  I can find the .exe file but it won't open.

John

[ArtF]

Hi John:

  Sorry for that, but then thats why I ran this test, to see if that woudl happen.
The message indicates its something fairly simple, Im looking into it and we'll see
if the next release will work for you.

Thx
Art

[ArtF]

>>No luck Gearotic Thoughts won't open for me.  I can find the .exe file but it won't open.

  Hi John:

  Weirdly, your system seems to be saying it doesnt have the redistributables for VC.
Can you try a google for "vc runtime download 2008" , and see if installing those from microsoft
helps?  Im not sure why your missing those, seems to me GM woudlnt work if that was true..

  Im sure we'll get this straightened out though, we had similar issues with GM. :)



Art

[ArtF]

John:

  Secondary question... the version of GM in that download works fine for you , right?

Art

[ArtF]

Hi Guys:

  For those having trouble running GT, Bob was crashing as well and we found it was related to a texture load routine, Ive killed it temporarily and uploaded a version without that texture. Seems to run for Bob now, as well as on all my machines.

Thx
Art

[John S]

Running OK here on two machines, desktop and laptop on W7

Not quite certain what I'm looking at though  ;D

[ArtF]

Good. :)


( If you select the tools tab and press circular youll find it all starting to look familiar.... ) :)


Art

[John T]

Hi Art,

That "vc runtime download 2008" worked.  As you know I work on a Mac so I downloaded the "vc runtime download 2008" and the Mac side and then transferred it over to the Windows side and installed it.  I re-ran the Gearotic SETIP and now GT opens. 

Now to have some fun.

Thanks Art

[John T]

Hi Art,
I've "poked" away at most of the buttons I could find and everything seems to work for me (clock gears).  I'm assuming that we can't build a project just yet, but so far so good.

John

[ArtF]

John:

  You can, but only with pulleys, sprockets and round gears. You can save and reload a project and put out papaer printouts or STL modeals as saved files. 2d DXF will very shortly be ready s I decided to get that running as I ponder the best way to do the toolpaths we'll need. 

Art

[John T]

Hi Art,
I failed the intuition test - I can't figure out how to the get the gear from the "tools" screen to the "project" screen.  I can change parameters on the tools screen and I can name and save the project but of course there is nothing on the project screen.

I'm missing something obvious in how to put things on the project screen.

John

[ArtF]

John:

  My fault really..I use a large monitor. Drag the gear tool screen upwards..buttons will
appear to place wheel or pinion... from there youll be fine I suspect. :)

Art

[John T]

Hi Art,
Thanks - that solved the project screen problem.  Naturally I play with spokes and they don't always regenerate for me and I may have to change from epicycloid to involute and back again to get the spokes to generate.

Another thing is that I managed to put a pinion gear on the wrong gear.  In GM a right click would allow a delete - now that doesn't seem to work or is it just too soon in the development.

All sorts on new neat stuff on the screens - its fun exploring.

Thanks
John

[ArtF]

Hi John;

  Delete will show up soon, probably by next test .. There are few safeties at the moment, so you CAN place almost anything on anything.
Its all still "roughed-in" pretty much as yet, its taking shape, and personally I like the new interface much better than the old, but we'll see how it holds up in testing. :)

Art

[ozzie34231]

Played with timing pulleys; can't move once placed; can't delete, (I see above).
Looks like you can't make a flying change between metric and imperial; must restart prog?
Looking Good
Ozzie