Adjusting for X/Y Skew in your Slicer

I have had a minor annoyance with my 3D printer that it skews the print in the X/Y place and will print a cube as a bit of a parallelogram instead. This is not that the X or Y are misaligned, the sizing is consistent, there is just a skew. After some research I found a solution in the slicer instead of manual tweaking the frame or flashing the firmware.

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Monoprice Select V2 3D Printer Customizations

I have a Monoprice Select V2 3D printer. This is just a few notes and recommendations for the modifications and part's I have customized it with to get improved print speed, reliability, and quality.

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Creating FreeBSD images in Google Compute

I found various instructions to create a FreeBSD image in Google Compute but non of those instructions where complete of functional.  Here are the correct instructions.

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Shrink PDF Files in OS X and Control Image Quality

This guide is using information from here and providing clearer instructions and a Automator script to compress many at once.

• Go here and click the green Clone or download button, then select Download ZIP.
• Go to Downloads on your computer and rename the downloaded folder to Filters.
• Make a new Finder window (Command+n) and then hold Option while clicking Go -> Library in the menu.
• Drag the Filters folder with he files you downloaded into this new Library folder.
• Download this program to your Applications folder or Desktop.
• Now you can just all your PDF's files at once and drop them onto the application and it will compress them and save the compressed versions to your desktop.

Connecting to MySQL Server from a Microsoft SQL Server

This seams to me that connecting MySQL and Microsoft SQL databases is something that should be simple to do. Unfortunately looking around online there was no real clear directions or even indications that this was possible without buying some additional drivers.  While fear not because this does work out of the box without needing to buy any additional software on pretty much any versions of the two databases.

In short what we will do is add a MySQL ODBC driver, configure a System DSN using that driver, Link MsSQL to that DSN connection, and to do a few test queries and updates.  This will allow full insert, update, and delete commands.

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