Thread: Alibre Design Works in progress

Originally Posted by WillyInBris

Anyone fell free to add some drawings.

well its a start Bob we may have to work on your straight lines and the windows/door aren't really to scale and what about the Dog and Cat

HA!! Love it Bob.
I actually laughed out loud when I read that.

hahaha... love that quality time. I need a laptop so I can get out of the study and do that same quality time!!!! Brilliant!!!. lol..

Brad.

Originally Posted by spidey4fun

hahaha... love that quality time. I need a laptop so I can get out of the study and do that same quality time!!!! Brilliant!!!. lol..

Brad.

Mate it actually works just need to listen a bit harder as I found out last night that I said yes to her buying an Ice Cream maker without even being aware of it lol.

Anyway another week a little bit more made up the SC-WUU Bearing Block this was fun couldn't find the DXFs so I had to look at Chai's drawing and make them up once again a learning experience.

I learnt a lot about the insert Axis tool and using constraints that way the alibre forum is a valuable tool when your not sure how to do something or having problems a lot like this forum.

Well this is far as this model will go in this direction I have decided to change it a little I am going to remove the 80x40 Extrusion and replace it with two pieces of 40x40 extrusion on each side this will allow me to run the bearings between the extrusion that's the good bit about starting a build this way I can see what I need to change and its bloody easy to change it.

More soon have a good weekend kids

So had a fair amount of quality time with the wife on the weekend and came up with the following what's really cool about working in aliblre is that I can move the X axis back and forth looking for problems.

I made a ballnut that was fun not sure on the holes on it does anyone have a dxf they can send me so I can check the dimensions still have to do the ballscrew have no idea how to do that .

I have decided I am going to build this machine in the new year .

It's a little sparse on dimensions. What sort of sizes are we looking at here?

Bob

Originally Posted by WillyInBris;

Anyway would have answered if I could it will be approx 300x700 envelope but it would be easy to change the X axis if required to either longer or shorter I have designed this so it can be variable.Sean.

It isn't really down Sean, you may need a little computer instruction eh?

Bob

Originally Posted by Bob Willson

It isn't really down Sean, you may need a little computer instruction eh?

Bob

Not as much as you with your drawing Bob, but it was down for maintenance as you would be aware at 6pm then they had problems with the database.

Did you notice the pic is gone as well, oh well probably wont bother keeping this thread going anyway doesn't seem much interest.

Do you think the unsupported rails are sufficient? All the designs I've seen recently have gone with supported rails.

I was going to ask earlier but site maintenance got in the way.

^-- same but I was waiting to see the dimensions.

Also about the extrusion, I would think the 80x40 would be better, not only would it align itself with the end plates (the 40x40 would rotate) if you get what I mean, but it would also provide additional support for the bed, or 60x60 would allow you to easily bolt some supported linear rails to it.

If I get time I'll draw up a design I had in mind at one point.


{EDIT} couldnt find my old design but heres what I was aiming at,

Are there any CAD files available for the AME profile stuff?

A CNC design might be just what I need to get motivated to actually use Alibre - which I've had installed for some time.

Originally Posted by snowyskiesau

Are there any CAD files available for the AME profile stuff?

A CNC design might be just what I need to get motivated to actually use Alibre - which I've had installed for some time.

Can you use Items Cad files?

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