A Traditional Workbench

Dave R

WB lines.png
This is from the model I made of Chris Gochnour's traditional workbench which is featured in the current Tools and Shops issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine. You can see a photo of it at this link: http://www.finewoodworking.com/2017/10/25/how-to-build-a-heavy-duty-workbench I used the model to create two sets of plans for building it.

These are the vises used on the bench.
Vises in place.png

faust07

Looks like your "Sketchy Shadow Experiments" were successful.
Otherwise a clean and clear presentation!

boofredlay

Love it.

tuna1957

Great stuff

Charlie__V

Very nicely done Dave!

Can we please see a wireframe of the vise(s)

Charlie

Dave R

Thanks all.

Charlie, will this do?
Vises wire.png

I simplified the vise on the right by deleting some of the details in the castings that wouldn't show. The front plate is just a shell because the rest of it wouldn't show anyway.

Charlie__V

@dave r said:

Thanks all.

Charlie, will this do?

I simplified the vise on the right by deleting some of the details in the castings that wouldn't show. The front plate is just a shell because the rest of it wouldn't show anyway.

Yes that will do..........very detailed from my perspective, I am always amazed how you and others model these shapes in SU. (Specifically the cast parts in this case)

Great stuff....thanks for sharing.
Charlie

Dave R

Thanks Charlie. I'm glad I don't have to do a lot of the kind of modeling I did on that front plate. There are over 262,000 edges in just the front plate component. Ugh!

Charlie__V

@dave r said:

Thanks Charlie. I'm glad I don't have to do a lot of the kind of modeling I did on that front plate. There are over 262,000 edges in just the front plate component. Ugh!

And I almost used the word “dense” in place of “detailed”........in my above reply......LOL

Dave R

Well dense would be appropriate. It's more edges than I would have chosen to use but from the file I started with, it would have been a whole lot of work to do more cleaning than I did and I decided it wasn't worth the time to reduce the entity count.