MEW180 CAD Article

[alan frostParticipant @alanfrost17805]

Ady-your post at 6.00:12. Great computer graphics. What platform are you using ? Never come across one yet that simulates workshop grime so realistically altho I still prefer actual photographs.

I enjoyed the MEW article and thought it well worth while compared with some of the articles around issue 175 altho I would n’t want to be the author if AD (Neebs) ever reads it ). “Watch out for the shaper boys” is sound advice given to new recruits on another well known site.

Edited By alan frost on 11/08/2011 11:49:54

Edited By alan frost on 11/08/2011 11:57:34

[KeithParticipant @keith]

I think, as it is food for thought that it being published was fine. I read most of the articles in ME and MEW for ideas.

Keith

[adyParticipant @ady]

The vertical shapers, which are usually big slotting machines, can also do accurate profiling work.

 

Studying some of these “old” machine tools can be a bit of an eye opener once you realise what they can do.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

In response to KWIL’s opening question.
… Yes, me for one!

Personally, I have no objection whatsoever to someone proposing a design; especially when the proposal has been so thoroughly worked-through, and is so clearly presented.

Sure, there will be things that each of us might wish to make differently; but that is true of most designs, whether or not the author has actually fabricated the thing.

If one cannot see how to “improve” on a proposal then one might as well buy ready-made. Extrapolate this and ultimately our hobby dies.

May I suggest that we could sometimes use the term “Workshop” [in the magazine’s title] in the modern sense of a discussion group. … Before forums like this existed, that is how magazines like Model Engineer often ran.
[for a prime example, check the protracted discussion about the Quorn]

MichaelG.

[adyParticipant @ady]

An update from previous.

I fixed the spindle keyway…and the bang, although much reduced has moved to the slight play I have in my backgear so the rubber band damping system stays put for the moment until I come up with tight backgear or a proper damping system.

 

The other change is a couple of slideways I have put on the Adept table to improve speed and convenience for moving the job around.

 

 

 

Setting up on a shaper can take up a lot of time on a bigger job, it’s quite fiddly and restricted.

With these slideways after setting the job square I can now whizz the job around with the shaper running.

Cuts have to be only slightly lighter than on the fixed table but it’s not a heavy duty high torque unit in any case, and the added convenience of moving the secured workpiece about at will is a huge bonus.

 

This also means the unit now has access to two compound angles and works conveniently in three dimensions, so making a tapered jib from solid bar without resecuring the workpiece for example becomes possible.

 

…and did I also mention that It’s a lot of fun too…it sure beats milling.

Edited By ady on 18/08/2011 12:08:15

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