Todays Project - What did you do today?

[Highpower]

(01-13-2016, 12:18 PM)rleete Wrote:

(01-12-2016, 03:23 PM)Highpower Wrote: These were supposed to be a couple of "Turners Cubes" by now, but it's taken me a week already trying to figure out the math and then trying to figure out how to draw 3 simple squares and a handful of circles using CAD software. (DraftSite)  

Now you know how I feel when I see someone whip out a project looking like it was made by a robot in a single day (I'm looking at you, Rob W).  For me, that CAD work is about 2 hours in 3D, tops.

I know exactly how you feel. Me too! It took me several hours to just drill and ream a dozen holes today!  
I hate doing repetitive work like that - unless I can do it all in one shot (set-up). It drives me nuts to drill a hole, clean up the chips and oil, remove the part from the vice and de-burr it, clean up the vice, re-install the part into a new position, drill another hole, clean up the chips and oil..... ad nauseam, then rinse and repeat with the reamer. I don't know how the model builders keep their sanity making the same parts over and over and over. (Multi cylinder engines and such.)

   

And yes, I'm sure that some one on one time with someone that knew what they are doing would make things go a lot quicker in learning to do CAD for the first time. Reading about it works (eventually) if you have the time to put into it. But just trying to cherry pick the info you need to know in order to do a quick "simple" drawing is frustrating because you don't know what it is you are looking for. Trying to do everything with the mouse alone was getting me nowhere. THEN I discovered the command line...

Makes me wish I had a drafting machine and table again. THAT I could work with!
Then again, trying to measure out to 4 decimals on paper.....