SnoCad

[sammer]

Java is up to date on both my machines. It's grafs web site that's down as far as I can tell.

CouldNotLoadArgumentException[ Could not load file/URL specified: http://www.grafsnowboards.com/bits/snoCAD-X.jnlp]
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.access$000(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

If you guys can run it... good for you, but must be just from cache.
Definitely not working here.

sam

[vinman]

That looks like the error I get too Sam

[vinman]

Does anyone know Dan Graf? I wonder if he'd let someone else host Snocad so that it stays available, stable and continues to benefit the community?

[sammer]

I know Dan used to post here once in a while but hasn't for a few years.
I'm pretty sure his user name was dg, you could try pm-ing him.
I re-downloaded boardcrafter trial version but it's pretty basic as far as shapes go but if worse comes to worst I may have to give Dante the $15. so I can print sidecut patterns.
I definitely prefer snocad.
It's nice to be able to drag tip shapes around and be able to zoom in. Boardcrafter doesn't do that.

sam

[vinman]

Yeah, I already Pm'd him. Not confident I will get a response.

[tufty]

I tried uninstalling and re-installing, updating the JRE and tried time machine to before I re-installed the OS, no luck.

The first issue appears to be that graf's site is down, so you can't even et to the web start file. If / when it comes back up, the thing to do would be to grab the following files:

http://www.grafsnowboards.com/bits/snoCAD-X.jar
http://www.grafsnowboards.com/bits/lib/jlgr-1_0.jar
http://www.grafsnowboards.com/bits/lib/ ... ut-1.0.jar
http://www.grafsnowboards.com/bits/lib/DXFExporter.jar
http://www.grafsnowboards.com/bits/lib/iText-2.1.4.jar

store them locally, and then modify the web start file to point to them locally using a file:// url in the "codebase" attribute of the jnlp tag (see below)

That *should* work, it might also be possible to wrap the jar files above into a standalone application.


The web strt file looks like this, and should be named "snoCAD-X.jnlp"

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- JNLP File for snoCAD-X -->
<jnlp
  spec="1.0+"
  codebase="http&#58;//www.grafsnowboards.com/bits"
  href="snoCAD-X.jnlp">
  <componen-desc></componen-desc>
  <information>
    <title>snoCAD-X</title>
    <association mime-type="application-x/snoCAD-X-file" extensions="snx"><description>snoCAD-X File</description><icon href="icons/board.png"/></association>
    <vendor>www.grafsnowboards.com</vendor>
    <homepage href="http&#58;//www.grafsnowboards.com"/>
    <description>snoCAD-X</description>
    <icon kind="default" href="icons/sno2.gif"/>
    <icon kind="splash" href="icons/xxxyyxxx.png"/>
    <offline-allowed/> 
    <shortcut online="false">
      <desktop/>
      <menu submenu="snoCAD-X"/>
    </shortcut>
  </information>
  <security>
      <all-permissions/>
  </security>
  <resources>
    <j2se version="1.6+" java-vm-args="-esa -Xnoclassgc -Xms10m -Xmx1024m"/>
    <jar href="snoCAD-X.jar"/>
    <jar href="lib/jlfgr-1_0.jar"/>
    <jar href="lib/swing-layout-1.0.jar"/>
    <jar href="lib/DXFExporter.jar"/>
    <jar href="lib/iText-2.1.4.jar"/>
  </resources>
  <application-desc main-class="snocadx.Main"/>
</jnlp>

[vinman]

Is it possible to use those files from someone else's computer?

Ie copy them and then install them manually?

[vinman]

Am I correct that boardercraft software is for PC only? I think I remember this but I can't find anything on the site that indicates this.

[ProbsMagobs]

for any pc guys having trouble launching it, I tried running as an administrator and it worked fine

[cainguy]

I just tried again and it's working fine

[tufty]

Is it possible to use those files from someone else's computer?

Ie copy them and then install them manually?

I would imagine so. I'm not sure if Dan would be happy about that, though, which is why I didn't suggest it. Obviously, if someone with a working copy could find the cached files and accidentally drop them onto the web...

[vinman]

I'm waiting to hear back from Dan about hosting snocad on a stable server....hopefully I get an answer back....

[Dtrain]

I have snowcad on a flash drive. dont even need an internet connection to open it. no install or anything. just copy paste it to your desktop and open it.

Dont remember how I did it, but it works.

[vinman]

No response did Dan yet

I might try a new install on a new profile. Not confident that will work.