I searched the website, but could not find if the moder posted any CAD files for this. Has anyone found any inventor/solidworks/autocad/step/iges/ or anything type CAD files for this?
I work at Trumpf, one of the worlds largest manufacturing companies. So I could easily get access to a laser/punch/sheet metal bender and cut the parts for it. Even if I did not plan on making it, it would be cool to just see how the moder did it in cad form. No need to CNC any or that from what I can tell from the pictures, a laser, sheet metal bender, and welder would do the trick.
Of course I would not take the credit, or make them for profit. But it would be an awesome case mod of the moder made the directions available.
@ jethro "I don't know if you even looked at the site, but it's plastic."
So you are saying because he used plastic, that means I would not be able to use sheet metal and he would not have any CAD files?
Material in this case does not matter at all, at long as you know how to use them. And anyone making any project should use CAD, just to make sure you don't do anything wrong. It is a very very common thing for someone to CAD a plastic part.. like a mold for example, to make sure it is made correctly. ( there are programs in most cad programs that deal with only plastic.
And as for the first part of your assumption on materials.. lets take a look at the first 4 words in my post.. "I searched the website". By reading that, it is pretty obvious that I looked the website.
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TedB @ Mar 13th 2008 9:45PM
I searched the website, but could not find if the moder posted any CAD files for this. Has anyone found any inventor/solidworks/autocad/step/iges/ or anything type CAD files for this?
StrangeBum @ Mar 13th 2008 10:12PM
I have not, but I'm curious why you would want them.
Plan on starting up a CNC or waterjet and cutting out your own case and implementing the mod yourself?
TedB @ Mar 13th 2008 10:34PM
I work at Trumpf, one of the worlds largest manufacturing companies. So I could easily get access to a laser/punch/sheet metal bender and cut the parts for it. Even if I did not plan on making it, it would be cool to just see how the moder did it in cad form. No need to CNC any or that from what I can tell from the pictures, a laser, sheet metal bender, and welder would do the trick.
Of course I would not take the credit, or make them for profit. But it would be an awesome case mod of the moder made the directions available.
jethro @ Mar 14th 2008 4:26AM
I don't know if you even looked at the site, but it's plastic.
TedB @ Mar 14th 2008 7:03AM
@ jethro "I don't know if you even looked at the site, but it's plastic."
So you are saying because he used plastic, that means I would not be able to use sheet metal and he would not have any CAD files?
Material in this case does not matter at all, at long as you know how to use them.
And anyone making any project should use CAD, just to make sure you don't do anything wrong. It is a very very common thing for someone to CAD a plastic part.. like a mold for example, to make sure it is made correctly. ( there are programs in most cad programs that deal with only plastic.
And as for the first part of your assumption on materials.. lets take a look at the first 4 words in my post.. "I searched the website". By reading that, it is pretty obvious that I looked the website.