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This topic is now a banner. It will appear at the top of every page until it is dismissed by the user.

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What topic?

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i dont understand. im just trying to get an answer. not real good with computers so i dont know what you mean by select a topic. i also dont know where the topics are.

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@GregoryMWallace - Hi there! I just sent you a direct message that should show up in your inbox in the upper right hand corner of the forum thatā€™ll show you how to create a topic!

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Hi Jessie, Iā€™m also an older maker, 25 years in production design, not a digital native, and I am new here to Inventables.

I have exciting maker projects to share from our YouTube Channel here at Hohman Design, but they were not created using Inventables tools. Is there an FAQ about what can be posted here and the right place to post things? I am building a flying model rocket of the Saturn V along with a 3D printed launch gantry and an elaborate mission control panel in a briefcase, all for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 coming up next month. Six or Seven videos will be released on my channel between now and then. Iā€™m friends with a lot of the makers here like Wicked Makers and Jimmy Diresta and I know Evan and Katelyn from Spring Make and Workbench Con, the projects they all make that are posted here seem as if they might all use the Inventables toolsā€¦ Am I in the right place? What are oneā€™s first steps in the community?

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Hi Tom! Thanks for reaching out.

Most of the projects on this forum are made with Inventables products like the X-Carve and/or Easel. Iā€™d say youā€™re more than welcome to start a thread in the Projects category if youā€™d like and see if it gains any traction.

Thanks!
Jessie

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How can you keep the router from moving so much during carve. I have tightenend wheels down. But it still moves around a lot and makes carve not so perfect

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I would like to know how to post a question on this forum. I see nothing that helps me. The very first question I have is how do I find drawings on my computer and open them in heisel? Another question is where is the program on my computer? Am I forced to stay with something that connects online and when Iā€™m not connected I cannot do anything? I hate being new at new things.

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Iā€™m trying to get started with this. Would you please send me that same instruction about how to start a topic? I can find nothing that indicates how to do that. Thank you

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Hi,
new topic button is on forum page below the blue box on right side :grinning:

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Thank you, Mark! Nice to have such a quick reply. I am at discuss.inventables.com. across the top are shop, easel, projects, forum, support.
The category Iā€™m seeing is inventables community forum. And then there are categories topics listed. I see no blue box

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This is where I start new topics.

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Thanks, Mark, for following up. That button wasnā€™t there until I got a notification that I could in fact be trusted. Apparently you cannot post, etc until you read something of several somethings. After that notice, I saw that New Topic button, right where you described it. :slight_smile:
Still cannot get the install EaselLocal process to complete. I get a screen that hangs up on the ā€œconfiguring firewall rulesā€ step. Unless I can get past that, Iā€™m dead in the water.

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I had the same problem (on Windows 10 laptop). I typed ā€˜Firewallā€™ into the Windows Start box and it comes up with a window that allows other applications to be included. There is a browse button and I navigated to where the driver download file was an selected that and then ā€˜openā€™. The driver name then appears in the firewall app window. Select ā€˜addā€™ and it put the driver in the list of applications. I then ticked the private and public permissions boxes for the driver (I donā€™t know if I should have done both). I did a re-install of the driver and it completed ok. Hope this helps.

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Hello!! super excited and ready to get started!!! I ordered my machine today, any idea about how long it takes for delivery??