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I didnt know we had somebody with a 3d printer. Can the 3d printer use acad or ai files to produce 3d images?Aryana wrote:I wouldn't know where to begin on how/where to create a model of the yokes. I'm a lead and vellum kind of guy, but let me research what it will take to get a model made up as I really appreciate the offer and would be stoked since I know it will come out better than what I can do by hand!
STOP YOUR WHINING. You get to build on your kitchen table while all the rest of us have to do things out in the hangar and you have your wifes approval.... Geeesh.Aryana wrote:Curiosity got the best of me so I charted the hours I've logged making expensive balsa dust. Interesting to see most of the time was at the beginning of the project, and now I'm working on it much more sporadically.falco wrote:you got all that done in 100 hours? dang.
I'm too embarrassed to share the total cost so far. I still have to buy the engine, which should be the last expensive item as long as I don't go off buying new radio gear. I guess you can't put a price on happiness, right?
You can. We all just choose to ignore it!Aryana wrote:...I guess you can't put a price on happiness, right?
I have access to a makerbot. Its an FDM printer that uses ABS or PLA. Essentially its a computer controlled hotmelt glue gun. The included software feeds on .stl files, many ways to convert all manner of 3d files to .stl form.canav8 wrote:I didnt know we had somebody with a 3d printer. Can the 3d printer use acad or ai files to produce 3d images?Aryana wrote:I wouldn't know where to begin on how/where to create a model of the yokes. I'm a lead and vellum kind of guy, but let me research what it will take to get a model made up as I really appreciate the offer and would be stoked since I know it will come out better than what I can do by hand!
Congratulations on the early Christmas present. You project is truly awesome 
I think you need to go to the hospital and get a full body CT scan, download their file, convert the file to something a 3-D printer can read, reduce it to 27%, and have Falco print out a miniature you! Make sure you're seated and add some hinges in the shoulder and elbow so one hand can grip the yoke and the other the flap handle.falco wrote:you got all that done in 100 hours? dang.
If you can come up with a 3D model of the yoke I'll make you a couple on my 3d printer.
. It is also a "170" that will keep the limelight for time to come 
. I hope that you don't have a crash to have to cry over it 
. Good Luck.I can think of so many nice things to say about the tail, and the legs, and empennage.... but I'd be afraid of being misunderstood...Aryana wrote:My wife looked through the thread and said the scale/size of the plane doesn't really come through in the pictures I post. She wanted to take a pic next to it and who am I to refuse?
