Metric Prusa Solidworks Model (COMPLETE)
Posted by epengr
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Metric Prusa Solidworks Model (COMPLETE) March 17, 2011 12:03AM |
It's done and uploaded to the wiki. Links added to the Prusa Mendel page's infobox.
Comments / corection welcome.
The .easm file is particularly light if you just want a model to spin and view - you just need the free eDrawing viewer.
I'd like to have an easily viewable model to help me visualize the assemble process - and also some way to do an as-built for my Prusa - so I've started importing the STL files into Solidworks.
Once I figured out how to get Solidworks to import STL as Solid Bodies instead of "Graphics Bodies" I was pretty much golden. To get things to mate well I'm edited all the parts and cutting round holes over the poly holes to give cylindrical surfaces to mate to (yes, I'm actually boring out the 3D model.)
My University has SW2007, so forward compatibility will be good. I can also produce an eDrawing Assembly that anyone with a Windows machine can download the free viewer for.
Where / how do you guys typically share this type of thing?
edit: Noted in title that I'm doing the metric versionTE)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2011 06:21PM by epengr.
Comments / corection welcome.
The .easm file is particularly light if you just want a model to spin and view - you just need the free eDrawing viewer.
I'd like to have an easily viewable model to help me visualize the assemble process - and also some way to do an as-built for my Prusa - so I've started importing the STL files into Solidworks.
Once I figured out how to get Solidworks to import STL as Solid Bodies instead of "Graphics Bodies" I was pretty much golden. To get things to mate well I'm edited all the parts and cutting round holes over the poly holes to give cylindrical surfaces to mate to (yes, I'm actually boring out the 3D model.)
My University has SW2007, so forward compatibility will be good. I can also produce an eDrawing Assembly that anyone with a Windows machine can download the free viewer for.
Where / how do you guys typically share this type of thing?
edit: Noted in title that I'm doing the metric versionTE)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/2011 06:21PM by epengr.
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Re: Working on Prusa Solidworks Model March 17, 2011 12:06AM |
Where / how do you guys typically share this type of thing?
Ideal is to upload a zipped copy of the file to the wiki.
Let me know if you have any trouble doing so.
-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.
Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!
Ideal is to upload a zipped copy of the file to the wiki.
Let me know if you have any trouble doing so.
-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.
Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!
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Re: Working on Prusa Solidworks Model March 17, 2011 12:10AM |
Will do, once I' have the rest of the model imported.
Thanks.
P.S. I'm doing the metric version.
SebastienBailard Wrote:
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> Where / how do you guys typically share this type
> of thing?
>
> Ideal is to upload a zipped copy of the file to
> the wiki.
>
> Let me know if you have any trouble doing so.
Thanks.
P.S. I'm doing the metric version.
SebastienBailard Wrote:
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> Where / how do you guys typically share this type
> of thing?
>
> Ideal is to upload a zipped copy of the file to
> the wiki.
>
> Let me know if you have any trouble doing so.
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Re: Working on Metric Prusa Solidworks Model March 17, 2011 10:44PM |
I think that would be, generally, a good idea. It's always good to avoid jumping between formats and conventions.
I personally have no experience with openscad and with access to Solidworks I'm not really motivated to learn it (there'll be enough learnin' going on to get a Mendel up and running). I'm doing this for two main reasons, first to make assembling the real thing a bit easier - there are a few bits that aren't completely clear to me and this should resolve it. Second, I'm a physicist, not a CAD tech, so I'm using it as an opportunity to become more familiar with Solidworks.
This is admittedly a selfish personal project that I'm not approaching from the prospective of what's best for Mendel community, but what's best/most convenient for me
.
I am, however, willing to share the results - likely somewhat flawed as they'll be - with anyone that would find them useful.
-David
I personally have no experience with openscad and with access to Solidworks I'm not really motivated to learn it (there'll be enough learnin' going on to get a Mendel up and running). I'm doing this for two main reasons, first to make assembling the real thing a bit easier - there are a few bits that aren't completely clear to me and this should resolve it. Second, I'm a physicist, not a CAD tech, so I'm using it as an opportunity to become more familiar with Solidworks.
This is admittedly a selfish personal project that I'm not approaching from the prospective of what's best for Mendel community, but what's best/most convenient for me
. I am, however, willing to share the results - likely somewhat flawed as they'll be - with anyone that would find them useful.
-David
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Re: Working on Metric Prusa Solidworks Model March 18, 2011 03:53AM |
This is admittedly a selfish personal project that I'm not approaching from the prospective of what's best for Mendel community, but what's best/most convenient for me.
No worries, as per this savage, no-hold-barred policy debate on the
Sanguinololu talk page
you're actually diligently following RepRap's "it's all good" policy:
I was thinking we should do this sort of thing in openscad itself.
Greg Frost, I see what you're saying. In the same way, it would make sense if we could and would standardize on:
Teapot Firmware, RAMPS, Prusa Mendel done in openscad, with one particular extruder, controlled by repsnapper. etc.
or ...
Adrian's current flavor.
It would really simplify our documentation.
Only, we're all devs here, and we keep doing up new stuff, like the deltas that are popping up today. (No idea what they're designed in.)
David, pst: Sasketchwan RepRap Forum
-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.
Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!
No worries, as per this savage, no-hold-barred policy debate on the
Sanguinololu talk page
you're actually diligently following RepRap's "it's all good" policy:
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gEDA Files?
Any hope that this project (obviously, since this is the project page) will provide files in gEDA format, or some other than Eagle? I don't particularly like the limitations that the free version Cadsoft puts on me (not to mention that I'm in favor of being as open source in the development approach as possible).
Thanks for considering.
--RandyHall 00:01, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
(not to mention that I'm in favor of being as open source in the development approach as possible).
I think everyone here is pretty keen on it, except for one philosopher who's trying to build a closed-source reprap. (I don't think that version will self-replicate and take over the planet.
I don't know that Joem is going to double-document in another CAD software, but I think he'd be pleased and honored if you did were to transcribe the design into the cad program of your choosing. Do ping him in the forum / reprap-dev email thread and send him some warm fuzzies chat about the design.
--Sebastien Bailard 04:45, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
I was thinking we should do this sort of thing in openscad itself.
Greg Frost, I see what you're saying. In the same way, it would make sense if we could and would standardize on:
Teapot Firmware, RAMPS, Prusa Mendel done in openscad, with one particular extruder, controlled by repsnapper. etc.
or ...
Adrian's current flavor.
It would really simplify our documentation.
Only, we're all devs here, and we keep doing up new stuff, like the deltas that are popping up today. (No idea what they're designed in.)
David, pst: Sasketchwan RepRap Forum
-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.
Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!
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Re: Working on Metric Prusa Solidworks Model March 18, 2011 10:58PM |
Eh, anyone can do standard, I don't thing any of us are here to do something that just anyone can do... 
I did check out the Sk forum, saw that monologue and didn't really go back. Is it possible to "Follow" a whole forum?
So here we are, and evening well spent. Fasteners... eh....
I did check out the Sk forum, saw that monologue and didn't really go back. Is it possible to "Follow" a whole forum?
So here we are, and evening well spent. Fasteners... eh....
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Re: Working on Metric Prusa Solidworks Model (Complete?) March 21, 2011 12:54AM |
Picture's worth a thousand words.
1001 I
1002 think
1003 it's
1004 done.
1005
1006 Will
1007 upload
1008 soon.
1009
1010 .EASM,
1011 .STEP
1012 .SLDASM
1013 others?
1001 I
1002 think
1003 it's
1004 done.
1005
1006 Will
1007 upload
1008 soon.
1009
1010 .EASM,
1011 .STEP
1012 .SLDASM
1013 others?
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Re: Metric Prusa Solidworks Model (COMPLETE) March 22, 2011 01:50AM |
Thanks, David!
-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.
Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!
-Sebastien, RepRap.org library gnome.
Remember, you're all RepRap developers (once you've joined the super-secret developer mailing list), and the wiki, RepRap.org, [reprap.org] is for everyone and everything!
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Re: Metric Prusa Solidworks Model (COMPLETE) March 23, 2011 01:05AM |
"Upload warning
The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again."
Is that an error message for a forum attachment or the wiki?
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The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again."
Is that an error message for a forum attachment or the wiki?
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