1955 Greenie in 3D
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:48 pm
Howdy!
I've been lurking in this forum for a while, and have received a lot of assistance from the various threads on keeping my 1955 Greenie up and running. I decided to join the forum to formally say THANK YOU to everyone. There is an incredible amount of knowledge and experience expressed every day on this site, to which I am grateful.
I thought some of you might get a kick out of a recent project I started last winter that, like many projects, started small and got a bit out of hand: a 3D scale model of my Mark 5 using AutoCAD. At first I was just going to rough it out with basic geometric shapes, but as time went on and I figured out how to do more things with the software I started going more and more overkill, to a point that when I got all finished I didn't like the first parts I drew, so I re-did many of them.
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Since it was too cold in my unheated garage to take the laptop out there to work on the drawing, I would remove the smaller pieces and bring them into the house, where I could measure them and look at them as I was drawing.
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For the larger items, such as the headstock, legs, etc., I would measure the parts, make rough sketches on paper, and sometimes take digital photos as a guide.
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Since this is my first post I hope I the pictures show up!
I've been lurking in this forum for a while, and have received a lot of assistance from the various threads on keeping my 1955 Greenie up and running. I decided to join the forum to formally say THANK YOU to everyone. There is an incredible amount of knowledge and experience expressed every day on this site, to which I am grateful.
I thought some of you might get a kick out of a recent project I started last winter that, like many projects, started small and got a bit out of hand: a 3D scale model of my Mark 5 using AutoCAD. At first I was just going to rough it out with basic geometric shapes, but as time went on and I figured out how to do more things with the software I started going more and more overkill, to a point that when I got all finished I didn't like the first parts I drew, so I re-did many of them.
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Since it was too cold in my unheated garage to take the laptop out there to work on the drawing, I would remove the smaller pieces and bring them into the house, where I could measure them and look at them as I was drawing.
[ATTACH]23872[/ATTACH]
For the larger items, such as the headstock, legs, etc., I would measure the parts, make rough sketches on paper, and sometimes take digital photos as a guide.
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Since this is my first post I hope I the pictures show up!