A quick trick: get a clear Sterilite tote with a flat bottom from Wally World, turn it upside down, put an LED or light under it, and place your plans with tracing paper (with a grid?) over it, and...
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A quick trick: get a clear Sterilite tote with a flat bottom from Wally World, turn it upside down, put an LED or light under it, and place your plans with tracing paper (with a grid?) over it, and...
My thought was basically the same. What we do, is use 6061-O (soft) and shear off a hunk about 1" wide and bend as tight as possible; putting some narrow 90 degree bends along the length allows the...
fine point Sharpie.
Jeffrey-
I understand what you are saying. But, for the homebuilder, since we are not industrial designers for our home projects, I find it useful to be able to scribe a line at the theoretical bend...
Floyd-
The triangle was created by a flat extrude, then add Bends (there were none), then add flanges, create drawing (2013), and used flat pattern view. The tangent lines were projected and...
Not sure why selecting the edge and the bend line using the SmartDim tool won't work: Just tested it and it works fine for me.
Some setting set wrong? BTW, I projected the tangent lines and set...
You have the mount T's, use a 3-D sketch in space for use in creating extrudes.
Roll back the feature tree, show the planes and sketches and 3-D sketch to understand the process. Hope that helps;...
Thank you guys for 'taking one for the team'.
Sounds 'cluster-ful', but I appreciate hearing your experiences.
Luckily I have access to desktop at work, but I would like to have the EAA
desktop at...
Yak-
Most CNC units use a DXF (Drawing Exchange Format) which is a 2-D 'view' of the part. In SolidWorks, I place a modeled part into a drawing view, save (native slddrw), and then again as a DXF...
Dan-
If it is a SW Assembly, right-click on the Part in the feature tree on the left and do 'open part' icon. The part will open as a stand-alone file. Then do new Drawing; in the blank drawing, do...
Dear fellow EAA CAD'ers,
I just want to say how badly this SUCKS. Having run SolidWorks since 2007, and in professional environments, it is classic Dassault Systems corporate greed.
The first place...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VhuQJV3BvtMBvcpp6
-Christian
I think posting actual photos of the attach points would be useful; the lower cad image IS what it should be.
-Christian von Delius
CNC: I do this all the time.
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My 6040 (~18"x24") was about $1000 and is a brilliant tool for SO many things.
-Christian von Delius
Jeremy:
Here is the Trig TY91 (based on dimensions furnished by Trig)
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The link for the solid model will be available for 1 month:...
RCS (do you have a name?)-
I won't teach you how to do this, but this is what I do. We waterjet panels from my SW part, with instruments accurately located and drawn for the customer's approval....
Also, if the line continues past the 'upper' circle for instance, you can put a point coincident in the circle sketch, which will 'fix' the contact location on the circle, and then make the line...
Ron-
To expand on what Jeffrey Meyer said:
If you click on the 'Configuration Manager' tab above the feature tree,
you can right click on the top-most item and 'add configuration'.
There is the...
Nameless WJH:
Here is an example I randomly created using data from this webpage:
in section III A....
To print it full scale, create a drawing with the view of the part normal to the rib.
Under 'Sheet Properties' make sure the scale is 1:1
Un-tick Display Sheet Format, and tick Custom Sheet Size: I...
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rkirk:
If you review the my post from 06/25, using an 'x' scale of 1 for LE to TE will generate an airfoil 1" long; then you scale it up by a factor of 63 which will make it 63" long LE to TE....
Drake-
Thank you for the thoughts. As a CAM novice, I wish more people would offer their opinions like this.
I have been importing SW models into Fusion 360, which is pretty straight forward to me,...
North_roll(real name would be nice)-
Normally airfoil data is in terms of 0 to 1 from nose to tail, with the Yu(pper) and Yl(ower) either given as shown,
or with Y +/-.
SolidWorks' convention in...
Here is half the 30' span wing with 15 degree sweep, 3 degrees dihedral, and 1.5 degrees washout, 66" root & 22.25" tip.
If you study the assembly, you will see how I did it; tip: study the...
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rkirk77-
Very simple: Use Excel and arrange the X coords along Z in SW and the Y coords along Y and set 0 for all the X coords.
You can find most airfoils in this DB:...