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Your bracket has 25 entities (lines and splines but no arcs) where my cleaned up version has 14 lines and arcs, no splines. Here's a link to the one piece version I did.įirst, you don't want to use multiple sketch entities to describe simple profiles. Printer's singing happily away as I write. It'll make it easier to drill and tap for the glass-holding angles, too. I've basically cut off the angle brackets just at the top of the base, and will print the brackets separately and see how well superglue works to put them in place. Now that I'm retired, it'll cost me beer.Īs it sits, the model wasn't too compatible with the 3D printer (Dremel Ideabuilder) the slicer added a lot of supports to the angle brackets and they'd be a bit tedious to cut away. Two years ago, I worked with several bright-eyed engineers using ProEngineer on a daily basis, and would have been able to ask for help. So I need to create shape that's not symmetrical nor a standard extrusion. In addition, they're not simple geometrics my first thought was to string together a group of lines but the DXF import was a heck of a lot easier.įinally, the *actual* brackets aren't simple extrusions.they taper at the bottom, where they attach to the base (kind of scalloped, in fact). I'm presuming I need to create a new plane (or a pair of planes) for these. The first problem was the tilted nature of the top part of the brackets. Extra credit of re-doing the angle brackets using the SWx tools only. Ron "What did you expect from me, spar fittings?" Wanttaja Probably could have done this in a quarter of the time using a lathe and bandsaw, but was looking for a good excuse to play with Solidworks. Instead, I drew the shape in a standard 2D program (Canvas) and imported it into Solidworks as a DXF file. The angle brackets were tougher I could not come up with a way to do these in Solidworks (mind you, I'm a raw beginner.just downloaded the tool three days ago). The base was built per the tutorials included in the Solidworks package. It's designed to sit on a separate base to match the curve of the top of the Fly Baby's panel. In any case, it'll sit too low to actually be in the line of sight.
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I'm contemplating putting a black disk with a white aiming reticle under it it may actually reflect a bit in the angled lens. The area is the middle has a stepped shelf for another piece of plexiglass to simulate the lens. Will see how the PLA material from the 3D printer handles a tap. 3/4 scale to match the Fly Babies and Pietenpols of the world.Ī piece of thick plexiglass will be attached to the angle brackets to simulate the combining glass of the original sight small pieces of angle will be bolted to the brackets to hold the glass just like in the original. 3/4 scale RAF Mark II reflecting gunsight, as used on the Spitfire, Hurricane. So if you find the time and care to share, please do! Thanks in advance!Be careful what you wish for. You're welcome, Ron! The spectators on this forum love pics (e.g., SW drawings and printed parts).