POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[ChazzC]

Gosh is that still around? I was fooling around with that on a little SE thirty years ago!

Microspot MacDraft

 

[rwdenney]

I would be lying if I claimed I never screwed up because of not seeing something in the third dimension. But working on sheets of paper was how I was taught, and drafting supports the hobby for me--it is not the hobby itself. I just want to get it done as quickly as possible. Often, I work from a quickie sketch.

But I'm generally designing replacements or single pieces, and not assemblies that have to fit and work as a machine. Like I said, I reserve the right to change my mind.

Rick "makes stuff up as he goes" Denney

 

[dkemppai]

I find that I can avoid more traps and pitfalls by CAD drawing things first...

3D cad is a tool, like any other tool. It helps me make things I need to make. If you don't need 3D cad, it might be a tool you just don't need. I don't shoe horses, so don't need a farriers anvil and forge...and they probably don't need 3D cad.

The problem is what cad has become. Compare what cad is now to a #2 bastard file. In one month my file will still be where I left it, it will be the same size, shape, color, and the handle will be in the same place. And in a decade when it's worn out, I can buy an exact replacement. Next month the whole cad system will look, feel, and operate differently. In 10 years I won't even be allowed to touch it without paying for it again.
And it's not necessarily the cost of CAD. If it's making me money or saving me time that's worth something. It's the time lost relearning something I already knew how to do. The irritating part is these companies want me to pay for the privilege of relearning something that they changed.

 

[Eyerelief]

3D cad is a tool, like any other tool. It helps me make things I need to make. If you don't need 3D cad, it might be a tool you just don't need. I don't shoe horses, so don't need a farriers anvil and forge...and they probably don't need 3D cad.

The problem is what cad has become. Compare what cad is now to a #2 bastard file. In one month my file will still be where I left it, it will be the same size, shape, color, and the handle will be in the same place. And in a decade when it's worn out, I can buy an exact replacement. Next month the whole cad system will look, feel, and operate differently. In 10 years I won't even be allowed to touch it without paying for it again.
And it's not necessarily the cost of CAD. If it's making me money or saving me time that's worth something. It's the time lost relearning something I already knew how to do. The irritating part is these companies want me to pay for the privilege of relearning something that they changed.

I live in fear of the "upgrade". The version of cad I have now I made sure and purchased on CD's so I could ring every second of longevity out of it. I have been using for almost 10+ years. I loath the day that I need to replace the PC or the operating software and the version I have is no longer compatible and my history of becoming comfortable with it disappears.

 

[extropic]

3D cad is a tool, like any other tool. It helps me make things I need to make. If you don't need 3D cad, it might be a tool you just don't need. I don't shoe horses, so don't need a farriers anvil and forge...and they probably don't need 3D cad.

The problem is what cad has become. Compare what cad is now to a #2 bastard file. In one month my file will still be where I left it, it will be the same size, shape, color, and the handle will be in the same place. And in a decade when it's worn out, I can buy an exact replacement. Next month the whole cad system will look, feel, and operate differently. In 10 years I won't even be allowed to touch it without paying for it again.
And it's not necessarily the cost of CAD. If it's making me money or saving me time that's worth something. It's the time lost relearning something I already knew how to do. The irritating part is these companies want me to pay for the privilege of relearning something that they changed.

Well said.
I was a Pro/E user until 2004 (pre Wildfire). PTC had already changed the user interface enough to be aggravating.
Imagine if every typewriter manufacturer had a proprietary character key arrangement, and each new model altered the character placement. The QWERTY key arrangement has persisted since 1874, but people born 100 years later think it's OK to vastly alter the user interface of their product at will. Amazing.

 

[Just for fun]

Great idea for the light mount.

Now about that Bronco... A little more info and pictures please. Looks like a C4

It's a 69 Bronco that I have been working on for three years now. I was hot heavy when I first started but other things got in the way, and it got side lined for a while. Anyway, back on it now. I built a custom 4-link rear suspension, the transmission is a 4R70W out of a 2000 Mountaineer. The engine is a custom built 351W based 427 using a Dart block. I had a friend repair the body and paint it.

 

[Gnpenning]

Very nice!! Are you on CB?

Who's front radius arms did you use?

 

[Just for fun]

I am a member of CB but not active, I buy a calendar every year that's about it. I take it you must also be into Bronco's also. The front radius arms are from James Duff.

 

[snoopdog]

Needed a handle for my atlas vise, courtesy of Mcsnoopy software, lol. Try not to abuse me too much, all dissimilar metal, didn't weld too good. Me or the metal.

 

[Eyerelief]

Needed a handle for my atlas vise, courtesy of Mcsnoopy software, lol. Try not to abuse me too much, all dissimilar metal, didn't weld too good. Me or the metal.

Im missing a crapsman metric socket, looks kinda like that one.................