Router Boss WIP
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Dave,
This is just great! Do you use any CAD before? And when you put the text on the machine, do you use an image or is that SU text drawn directly? What is the style like that you use here?
Peter
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Hi Peter,
Thank you. The only CAD experience before SketchUp was with an ancient program called Anvil 1000. I still have it once in a great while. I've been drawing with SketchUp since Version 3 though and there's rarely a day I don't draw something with it.
Regarding the scales on the machine, the white scales on black background in the first images were done by drawing the scales in a separate SketchUp file. I used 3D text and actual narrow rectangles for the tick marks. I painted the rectangles and the numbers black. I exported 2D views of the scales and in Paint.NET I made reversed images. These were then imported into SketchUp and applied as materials to the blank scales. There's three different scales there. The angle scale in the most recent image was just done with 3D text right on the component and simple line segments for the scale. I thought about doing the same thing I did for the others but at this point, I don't know how these parts are made. I'm waiting for some information on that before I proceed. If I was only drawing the part with the scale on it, I probably wouldn't bother with the extra steps but the material is much lighter than the component with the geometry and in the scheme of things, it's worth it to lighten the file where I can.
I'm not sure how to answer your question regarding style. Could you clarify?
Dave
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I see.
These are all straight out of SU. Some of them--the inverted router with the laser lines anyway, were done using some sketchy sorts of line styles. Otherwise they are just JPGs or PNGs. A little cropping in Picasa probably.
The fellow who owns the company sent me CAD files for the parts. He also sent me PDFs of those files. It was easier in every case to use the PDF and draw from scratch than to import the DXFs and clean them up.
I did draw everything to the dimensions given. I find it easier to draw that way.
Thank you for asking about that.
Dave
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Thanks,
I was wondering how the images you uploaded were made, are they just .png (or whatever) directly from SU without profiles, Or did you use a style with a light line?
I thought perhaps you had laid out some of the work with CAD. It is so clean and obviously accurate.
Regards,
Peter
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Fantastic and inspring modeling, Dave.
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Fantastic work with a great attention to detail. This is a great representation of native SU output.
Scott
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