Router Boss WIP

Dave R

Thought I'd show a project I've been working on for awhile. This is a new woodworking machine that was first shown at a large woodworking show in Atlanta in August. I've drawn all of the parts for this thing so that I can illustrate anything that needs to be shown.

boofredlay

Bravo!

Dave R

Thank you sir.

You need one of these things in your shop.

boofredlay

I'll take 3

Dave R

One of each size? I can get you set up.

Teezer

Too rich for my budget, I'm sure, but very nicely done model, sir.

remus

Very nice, the attention to detail is quite superb

tinanne

Yowzers! That looks like a lot of work! Good job.

mirjman

good work managing the curves and circle sections needed to model that - it can get inaccurate very quickly with those

Ross Macintosh

Sharp! I enjoyed seeing the images.

Regards, Ross

urgen

....good work Dave,very good !

Dave R

Thank you all for the nice words.

FWIW, I'm finding Layout 2 to be incredibly helpful with this project. The improvements over the beta version are great. The exploded view you see above is one of six or seven different drawings for the appendix of the manual to show the locations the screws and other hardware contained in various bags packed with the machine. There are many other illustrations being set up as well. One thing that I can do with the SketchUp model that would be difficult if not impossible to do with photos is showing the router bit cutting through the wood without having a router or other stuff in the way.

Also, to whomever it was that turned me on to a method of combining line styles. I used that for the last image up there with the inverted router.

The red laser lines were drawn in and put on a separate layer from the rest. then I made two scenes one with the lines, with a heavier sort of line style applied and the lines colored red. The second scene was the rest of the geometry without the red lines using the different style. The two images were exported and combined in Paint.NET in a few seconds.