WIP - 5"-32 dual mounts

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  1. NickMyers

    NickMyers Admin RCWC Staff

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    @Maxspin asked me to whip up something to replace the bits people keep shooting off his Washington
    Its not 100% true to life, but I think it'll do well enough
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    Looks nice. Good job.
     
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    Very nice!
     
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    Nice! I'm curious, what CAD program did you use to draw this?
     
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    Autodesk Inventor
     
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    Man, Nick, that looks great! Your CAD skills far exceed my own. You going to add this to the Resource section, right? I want one. ;)
     
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    test run turned out ok, few areas to work on
    my retraction settings are causing me some problems on the captains hood,
    and i forgot to enable supports so the sight hoods have some minor deformations on the bottom.
    I think I'll push the backside features out a little further to gain a little more definition on them.
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    Thanks but, don't sell yourself short, burn a little time in your CAD program of choice and you'll soon be making all kinds of stuff.
    probably will once I'm reasonably happy with the model and its printability.
    What are you building that needs one?
     
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    Heh, well my CAD program of choice right now is the free version of Sketchup. Which, while being easy to learn and use, is pretty much limited to simple models. I've been looking around for a better CAD program to use. I've downloaded FreeCAD and I'm slowly learning how to use it.
    That's just it, I don't 'need' one. :) But it's so pretty I 'want' one. ;)
     
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    Fusion 360 should still be free for hobbyists and small-timers and gets you a more robust tool chain. And as a student (you moonlight as one somewhere, right?) you should qualify for an educational license for Inventor

    Build a Sumner or Gearing class DD
     
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    Very nice work Nick. I might have to print me up a set.
     
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    Downloaded Fusion 360 today. It's been pretty easy learning. After a few hours of doing tutorials, I was able to design a piece I needed that I couldn't do on Sketchup. :)
     
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    The rights tools for a job
     
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    Fusion360 is in all respects a proper commercial grade parametric 3D CAD program, I think you can do direct modeling with it too but stick to parametric for design work. I'm not a huge fan of all my files being stored on the cloud but for the functionality it is hard to beat especially for the price, and the cloud does allow for some neat collaboration opportunities. I was really leary moving away from Pro/E since a lot of free CAD packages aren't so great but they did a good job with Fusion360. The tool chain to get g-code is really simple, I haven't run into any real issues with it for running the mill, I imagine it is just as easy for a 3D printer. If you're a hobbyist looking for CAD software I can't recommend it enough.
     
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    +1 to Snipehunter's note. I use proe/creo, inventor, solid works and others at work and for the cost fusion is the way for a hobbiest to go (or even small business for that matter)
     
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    I've got a dozen, all blems in some manner or another - mostly down to print settings though, pretty content with the model itself. I should probably stop printing them at this point, as I don't actually have a ship these would be used for. @Maxspin's lucky day!

    Was going to install some barrels but seem to be out of 1/16" stock. So these are just acetone wiped and then shot with a quick few passes of the rattlecan primer with little to no cleanup on the parts done first.

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    Very nice!

    Would love to have some of these in 1/96 scale sometime...
     
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    probably would print pretty well. Building for battlestations?
     
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    Eventually. I have one of RCENGR's 1/96 Baltimore hulls on the back burner.
     
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    Move it to the front burner, crank it to full, then rip the knob off!
     
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