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FMAAID

Thanks for the links, I read thru them and they had great info.

This seat was about 8 hours. I am looking to reduce my modeling time and increase my detail.
I hope I can demo this over the holiday break.

FMAAID

https://novedge.com/collections/xnurbs/ ... ne-license

Has anyone tried this out?

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I just saw a bunch of people protesting outside of boeing right next to where I work. They have a bunch of signs saying " boeing not my dr" lol

They did not want to get the vac so they quit and opened a ton of jobs for vaccinated people.

Just wanted to share to opportunities

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(edit*, better video)

The little kid =SW users

Jerk Ice cream man =SW

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They keep on deleting my posts in the swamp. I wonder if it is a glitch or I am being censored, neither would surprise me.

I use dxf's everyday and this is just more salt on the wound.

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That's likely to be just a waste of your time. Unless there is a total meltdown in the community nothing is done, and without the Solidworks forum now running that meltdown getting traction is unlikely. I got a call back from my VAR the same day, They told me they would do what ever they can to mak...

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This suks, I will tell my VAR how I feel about this.

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https://www.solidworks.com/beta SOLIDWORKS® 2022 BETA 1 POINTS CONTEST Official Rules " Submission Guidelines: a. The Contest Entry submitted must be created by the entrant alone and be the original work of the entrant. b. The Entry must describe the Issue, include details of the business impac...

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I wonder if this is a first for Parametric mesh editing

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That is a nice kit, even comes with the latest BTT octo board.

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Uncle_Hairball wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:33 pm 50???

They fixed 19 of out of 50 on sw2018 sp5 .

https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/s ... Notes.html

FMAAID

Do they have a place where you can see all the bugs that are currently in all versions of SW?

For example it would say solidworks 2018 sp5 has these 50 known bugs. solidworks 2019 sp5 has these known bugs etc

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A one piece cargo net , needed to make a new one that was smaller.

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Pic showing our seat in the honda talon with the new mounts I made.

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https://youtu.be/sda0Z9j2SbI I am surprised that there is not one commercial 3d printer that uses a GTAW Tig welding head with a wire feed system. The current filament extruders can be adapted to feed tig wire from a spool. The video shows a cnc with a mig gun Major problem is the build plate and ho...

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It is from $500- $5000 , depends on what you need out of the scanner. The Professional ones go from $20,000 to 50,000. Artech eva is $20,000, artech Leo is $28,000, Creaform handscan black elite is $39,000 This is a pretty good guide with links and prices https://www.3dnatives.com/en/top-10-low-cost...

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I got an app that lets me scan with my cell phone. It's really awful, but it gives results. The new iphone scans look decent. We bought a structure scanner add on for the ipad when we first got into 3d scanning. There are a ton more options now for entry level scanner than a few years back when we ...

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Honda Talon 1000x, Designing mounts so our seats can mount into them.

Using scan data for geometry and fitment

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I got 110AC here 220AC is for the oven. Illegal to use extension cord. And voltage doesn't matter, P=VI. 200W is 200W different voltage, different current. Still need 200W. The main benefit of using a 120v or 240v AC bed heater is to offload the current draw from the 12v DC power supply and speed u...

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 12:25 pm 240V? DC? AC?
We can always use separate PS on heaters.

I meant 240v AC, but you know there is nothing stopping someone from running 240v DC

My mainboard runs on 24v DC

FMAAID

anyone use 240v on the bed?
I have that on the printers at work and that eliminated a need for a high power supply.

I use a keenvo bed heating pad @ 240v with a solid state relay that gets 12v signal and turns on the 240v bed or off.

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The voron will be my next build. I have not seen anything that moves as fast, even industrial printers.

I think most of this 3dprinters magic is in the klipper firmware, it uses a accelerometer to find the fastest movements without sacrificing quality.

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coming to windows soon. https://www.shapr3d.com/windows?utm_term=&utm_campaign=WA_Win_Display_Clicks_NU_Web-eng_WW_ML&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=9940945145&hsa_cam=11292522943&hsa_grp=125524054000&hsa_ad=525188541545&hsa_src=d&hsa_tgt=aud-1297711715...

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If you want to print really fast then build a Voron 3d printer. Open source design

https://vorondesign.com/voron2.4

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A clamp for our CNC belt rewebbing machine.

304l material, used a custom tool to make the knurll

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A housing and a cooling plate for the semi conductor insdustry

Used AlphaCam part created in SW.

316 stainless

FMAAID

Could I start a " what are you machining today" thread?

I have a few I can share.

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seatbelt pass thru for racing seats( not for aviation)

snaps together once assembled on seat. Printed in polycarb @270 nozzle and 105 bed

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lol, not applicable due to R & R

That is how we replace entire aircraft interiors, we must take the old cover, leather, carpet, ect and replace with materials that meet or exceed currrent config.

Good one tho, not a lot of aerospace guys here.

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- something else? This co pilot flooring is a good example of why I use mesh data, it saves time. I actually did a time study on how long it takes to measure and recreate manually( I used a faro arm to get point location data) vs 3d scan and create from imported point cloud. The 3d scan won by 3 hou...

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Wow that welding robot would make a great 3d printer with actual 3 axis printing instead of what we have now which is 2+1 axis printing.

I have one in the works that is a 400mm 3d printer, a miller dynasty power source with a wire feed tig attachment.

FMAAID

Replacement air airvent/adjuster for a cessna, out of stock so we had to create a file and 3d print one.
Used a pair of cailpers to draw it in SoildWhy

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The biggest thing I think about is if I did not have a 3d scanner then how would I recreate the seat parts which are not flat and have organic shapes. I was kinda amazed by geomagic"s Designx software and what it can do with mesh data. In the demo designx pumped out a surface from mesh in 30 mi...

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I knew there had to be better way, or software in this case. I have never tried NX,Catia or PTC.
My boss always says ruff seas make great sailors, If I apply that to SW ruff seas the past 10 years then Yes it created a great sailor but also one who hates the sea.

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my take on SW scan to 3d is like using tinkercad after 15 years of only using SW. Unless I am missing something?

I looked at all the SW documentation and there is not much , http://help.solidworks.com/2020/English ... erview.htm

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Im not hurting for one, Im just actively hunting them. I have not gone as far as to buy a bot to do the work for me( which is the one of the problems) But I am on the new egg shuffle each day and also signed up with over 50 websites for alerts when they do have stock. watch out with newegg, the card...

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the whole internet has, only ebay has instock at 4x the going price. A rtx 3090 on ebay is 4000$

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All of my work is based around 3d scan data. Most of the aircraft have organic shapes inside the cabin that make standard geometric design very time consuming and difficult, on top of that aircraft manufacturers do not share cad data with us. We also use 3d scan to create new seat covers for the air...

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looking to buy any 2000 or 3000 series rtx graphics cards new r used.

I need around 10 cards.

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I programmed a part like that before for a Amada vipros 357 queen. Back in 2015 I did not have access to any flattening, so we ran the small features on the punch press operation before the perimeter cutting op. It would cut the feature in 3 hits and then use form punch to bend it out. The rolling w...

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That has to be nice to have many scanners to choose from, I need a scanner that gets data in tight spaces such as the cockpit that has pedals in the way We can not remove them due to regulations. I am looking at the creaform handscan black for the tight areas or the artech Leo also one day I would l...

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FUSION1.png Hi, I have a mesh I am working on inside of fusion360 and I am wondering if there is a way to modify the plane after creation. My work flow is 1. turn of history, import mesh 2. using form tools create plane 3. using form tools, use modify/pull to snap plane to mesh. I would like to ins...

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i just saw that fusion360 has a pull feature that is similar to geomagics shrinkwrap tool.
It is in the mesh tools and basically you create a flat surface and then use a tool to pull it to the shape of your mesh. Pretty cool
This looks promising for the seat portion of my workflow.

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2 custom built Ratrig coreXY 1 is 300mm the other is 400mm Both are high temp, we print polycarb at 270 nozzle, 105 bed, and 100 chamber also have a monoprice select mini that we use for small stuff Im using a skr 1.4 on the 300mm and a skr pro1.2, firmware is marlin 2.0.8 using vscode to compile. I...

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My setup is Artech Eva with a republic of gamers laptop Core i7 2.2ghz. rtx 2070, 24gb ram, samsung evo 970 for offsite scanning My processing rig is a custom desktop with Core I7 i9-7900x, rtx 2090ti, 128gb ram, samsung evo 980 I use it to scan aircraft such a AS350 helicopters and gulfstream g550 ...

FMAAID

Awesome, thank you

FMAAID

Hi,
I was wondering if there is a place for 3d scanning and its related software.

Software such as artech studio, vx studio, cloud compare, ect.

thanks

FMAAID

I was just looking as SW 3D sculptor but guessing that I will have problems uploading my massive scan data to their cloud plus some data can not go to the cloud. That is really disappointing to see SW come out with little cloud based apps instead of adding all of them to SW. They are not really enou...

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here are a few more pics

the heli is a work in progress, I am using this in my renderings

The seat is from a h145 and is one of my earlier versions. I used the mesh prep wiz and curve wiz then manual surfaces.

FMAAID

I've done what you are doing in SW and it's painful. Geomagic is the grandaddy of scan and mesh. I think NX can do it. You mentioned powerSurfacing, which would be my bet. Possibly Rhino. I am stuck with SW (for now), I have 4 cnc machines that I have workflows in solidworks. Not to mention the plu...

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