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Dominoes posted:Current and former military get the $20 deal too. Probably other groups as well. (Students?) Thank you very much for this info. I rarely pursue veteran discounts for stuff, but this was super easy to do and now I'm just waiting for them to email the download link and my key.
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mattfl posted:Hey CAD people, help me out here. Have a look at this and see if it'll do the trick. I can make adjustments pretty quickly if something doesn't seem quite right. It's kind of a kludge, but it's a kludge that should print just fine.  https://www.farscapeprops.com/3M_thing_for_mattfl.stl
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The much smarter version of me just realized exactly what you were doing this for. I'm running a short piece of the mounting plate right now to check the hole spacing against the E10 itself. Should have a yea/nay for you in about 20 minutes. e: Yeah, don't bother printing that one yet, sorry. I did a thing wrong. Fixed version to follow shortly. e again: Those drat fan screws are 2 13/16 inches apart. This one ought to fit right. https://farscapeprops.com/3M_thing_for_mattfl_fixed.stl Acid Reflux fucked around with this message at 22:09 on May 10, 2021 |
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Happy to be able to help! Worst case, you might have to hog the screw holes out just a bit, but I think it'll be OK.
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May 10, 2021 23:26
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The educational/personal/maker/etc. versions of lots of really expensive programs are usually not cross-compatible with the commercial versions in some way or another. A big reason is to keep companies from using those versions as free seats for their entire engineering department, and then just transferring the files to their one paid license for the final output.
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NomNomNom posted:From what research I've done it seems to be a known issue with Fusion, it just expects that the units for any svg are 96 dpi. Which I guess means your scale factor is related to your display resolution? If it saves SVG files at 72ppi like Adobe Illustrator does, it'll have to be scaled up in Fusion by 1.333333 (basically as many threes as you can give it). If it's doing its own unique thing, I got nuthin'.
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STL files don't actually contain any measurement unit information. If it's importing into Fusion way out of whack like that, unfortunately you're just going to have to scale it manually. (e) ^^ drat you!! LOL
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honda whisperer posted:You can also override units anytime. Working in inches? Type 6mm in the box and it'll convert automatically.
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Sagebrush posted:Wait until you're working on a part where you have to mix units and you realize you can enter stuff like (2mm + 3/4")/2 directly into a dimension field I have so much to learn. On a somewhat cool note, I'm now the proud owner of an educational Solidworks license. It's only $20 a year if you're a US military veteran, not sure if the same program is available in other countries too, but it seemed like a fair enough amount to gamble as far as trying to learn some Big Boy CAD stuff. Acid Reflux fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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NewFatMike posted:Hell yeah! It's the desktop version of 2023 which appears to also include Electrical, Composer, and Visualize. I've had it installed for a few days but just haven't really had time to look at it... but finally have nothing I need do today, no actual adult responsibilities whatsoever, so it's at least partially going to be Coffee and Tutorial Day. 
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Almost all of my 3D modeling experience is in stuff like Lightwave and Max, so exactly nothing in a proper CAD program works the way I think it should LOL... but it's never to late to start learning something new, right? I'm not completely unfamiliar with Fusion 360, but very far from proficient, and then I ran across the deal for Solidworks (sorry NFM, I can't bring myself to properly shout that) which seemed like the right opportunity to start putting some more focused effort into learning. And here we are! I actually went through the first basic modeling tutorial today, and aside from being all elbows and assholes with an unfamiliar interface it went just fine. I'll probably run through it again tomorrow to build up a little more familiarity and then move on to the next one. I've got nothing but time, really just doing this for me, so not in a rush to become a self-proclaimed expert by the end of the month or anything like that.
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Blondihacks has a tutorial video on using/reading calipers and micrometers. It's a little long, so feel free to skip ahead to the good parts if you don't feel like you need the beginner-y stuff, but the whole thing really is a good watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8U_gg6Qz6c
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