This page will show you two different plugins that can be used to export STL files from Google Sketchup. Once exported, you may then open them in a CAM program for generating 3D G-code for your CNC machine. Two cheap examples of 3D capable CAM programs would be CamBam Plus and MeshCam.
permission of a specific ‘owner’ who has to defend the integrity of his module.
different assumptions and effects.
The free-form model connotes more of a sense that all users are on the “same level," and that expertise will be universally recognized and deferred to
the creator of an entry is spared the trouble of reviewing every change before it is integrated, as well as the need to perform the integration
the owner-centric authority model assumes the owner is the de facto expert in the topic at hand,
and all others must defer to them.
the owner must review all modification proposals, and take the time to integrate the good ones.
The owner-centric model is better for quality, but takes more time, while the free-form model increases scope of coverage and is very fast.
'equipotentiality'
rules are generated within the community itself, though mostly in the early phases. After a while, they tend to consolidate and they are a given for the new participants who come later
a process of socialization is crucial to eventual acceptance . The process is akin to the tradition of artisanship, which has been used in the three-degree system of original freemasonry as well: apprentice, companion (fellow craft), master. But it is implied rather than formalized.
Crucial to the success of many collaborative projects is their implementation of the reputation schemes.