drawings (2D)

Hi,

I'm new here and I'm a bit confused. I'm looking for a set of metric 2D drawings of Mendel preferably as DXF or DWG.
What I've found so far is either 3D or imperial.

Thanks for your help
Markus

I don't know of any official 2d drawings. But this is where the 3d models are.

[reprap.org]

You can use them to create what ever 2d files you want. That is what I did for my cnc machine which needed dxfs

Josh

I think thats a bit strange. 3D models are all good and fine if you have a 3D printer. But for (normal) manufacturing you can't live without a technical drawing (which is 2D).

3D is always a big headache with format incompatibilities. OTOH dxf is something nearly everything can read. Even dwg works almost everywhere.

So I think I'll have to make them myself. Also helps me understand the machine better

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jupdyke
You can use them to create what ever 2d files you want. That is what I did for my cnc machine which needed dxfs

Hey can you give me a walkthrough on this? Like what software you are using, how to convert the file. I saw a python script available to convert .stl's to .dxf, but haven't tried it.

thanks.

Hi there,

I hope this will help::

You can easily generate 2D drawings from the 3D files (downloaded from the official RR wiki) using SolidWorks software. The tedious part is labelling the necessary dimensions.

There was a guy who machined Mendel parts from aluminium. He made his 2D drawings available. I'm sure a search will be able to dig that up.

Because I'm a mech. eng. student, my faculty gives us the software. University students from engineering usually have easy access to such software. =)

TC

Note that these drawings are missing the relative dimensions.

ie :: how far are the rectangle/circular holes supposed to be from the edge?

I've only had time to do two.

Its very tedious. Especially so because I'm did it on a eeePC netbook.

Hey,
last week i almost started with milling parts manually and i wanted to make 2D drawings. I started with one, the frame-vertex_6off.stl So you can download it here:
[www.3d-scannen.nl]
only one PDF atm. since I decided to buy them all for myself.
Its scale 1:1, so print without scaling and do you'r thing

I can make more drawings, its a 10sec job for me (using Pro/Engineer).
Let me know (pm me) what parts you want first as 2D pdf.
And when i have time ill make more.
cheers,
Camiel

camiel, would you like to upload such stuff to the wiki, in a place that feels appropriate?

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Someone started a few of the 2D drawings and put them at [objects.reprap.org]

Would like to see some of the more complex shapes done.

• x-carriage-lower
• x-carriage-upper
• y-bearing-360-inner
• y-bearing-360-outer-left
• y-bearing-360-outer-right

Dwayne

camiel Wrote:
> I can make more drawings, its a 10sec job for me
> (using Pro/Engineer).
> Let me know (pm me) what parts you want first as
> 2D pdf.
> And when i have time ill make more.
> cheers,
> Camiel
Wonder if you could convert the files into "STEP" or "IGES" format and post them?
Would open up more SW platforms.
thx

Prober Wrote:
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> camiel Wrote:
> > I can make more drawings, its a 10sec job for
> me
> > (using Pro/Engineer).
> > Let me know (pm me) what parts you want first
> as
> > 2D pdf.
> > And when i have time ill make more.
> > cheers,
> > Camiel
> Wonder if you could convert the files into "STEP"
> or "IGES" format and post them?
> Would open up more SW platforms.
> thx

I second that.
It would be great to have at least some Mendel-parts
in a proper, parametric solid -format.
(Preferably even as an assembly with inter-part constraints
to create resized versions but I guess that would be way
too much work to ask for.)
I do parametric modelling here but am currently too occupied
to help there. Maybe a few weeks later.

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I'm building a wooden mendel. (My worklog is at a norwegian forum: http://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?showtopic=1220355)

Triffid.hunter have some excellent drawings at http://wooden-mendel.blogspot.com/. Today I printed some more of them and started drawing and adding comments, then I realized, why not do it on the computer. So I converted the bitmap to vectors in inkscape and added some comments and drawings. I really like the svg format as it opens directly in your browser for quick viewing (at least in Opera). And you can print it directly from inskcape while keeping the exact scale. (Printing from Opera didn't work properly).

I find it difficult to keep the details and measurements "perfect" in svg, but I feel it's more than good enough for manual building anyway.

Does it look okay? Should I do more? Where should I put it on the wiki?

Edit: Hmm.. something strange happens when I open the file through the forum. If you save it to disk first, it works fine.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/14/2010 12:55PM by Nudel.

I confirm that opening it in the forum doesn't work. Apparently the forum software gives incorrect type information in the http header?

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jgilmore
I confirm that opening it in the forum doesn't work. Apparently the forum software gives incorrect type information in the http header?

Can you (or anyone) please provide an example of this, so I can try to track this down and fix it? I suspect a quick addition to the relevant apache config file will take care of this, but I need an example to be sure I understand exactly what the issue is

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