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Hi all, I've been working on a project that's called for some shapes that made me think a little...a bit out of the ordinary, thought I'd share.
 

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Note: The following was originally posted at Freeflight Design on Mar 23rd, 2008. To date not one person has risen to the challenge! :rotfl:

I was rummaging through my files the other day, and found this detailed engineering drawing of a unique device. After scanning it and cleaning up the age spots, coffee stains, and assorted squashed bug splatters, I am posting it here as a CHALLENGE to anyone with Max, GMax, FSDS, or any other 3d software to produce the world's first 3d model!

Be careful to observe the extremely detailed and precise specifications... ;D

It is undoubtedly a highly modified servo arm for a flux capacitor input controller mechanism!

Either that, or the clutch actuator for a 1914 Ford tractor...

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:yikes: that would be pretty hard :scratchch

have YOU ever tried modelling that? :teacher: + :stirthepo + :banghead: + :wizard: = absolutely the hardest thing POSSIBLE to model :D
 
bob5568 said:
I love that drawing!

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I don't remember just when I first obtained this, but it was sometime around 1979 or so at least while I was teaching at UF, Gainesville, Florida. :D

Being the packrat that I am, the drawing was squirreled away in a "joke folder" which subsequently became "lost" among my file cabinets.
 
LMAO! What tolerances! What notations!

Among other duties, one of my prime tasks is to render 3D models of the various casting and assemblies at Ellicott Dredges using drawings from as far back as 1913... but NOTHING like that!!!!
 
:rotfl::rotfl: amazing! "4 19/32 depending on where measurement is made" "slightly off centerline"......
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I have to print it, and bring it at work!! :D

Cheers Andrea
 
I'm glad to have shared it then. I've never seen anything like it before on the web...

1/4 +/- 0.750 is one of my favorite dimensions...

...along with the "8th root" (not critical)

I have to wonder though, the "8th root" of what precisely? It doesn't say!
 
I don't know whats so funny about it!? I am currently working with Solidworks and my drawings look more or less exactly the same :rolleyes:
 
You haven't looked at the instructions and notes then...
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Yes I did! That's exactly my point :D
As a researcher/scientist, it's my duty to create "special" designs :cool:

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typical Vitus' design I'd say.
 
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Yes I did! That's exactly my point :D
As a researcher/scientist, it's my duty to create "special" designs :cool:

typical Vitus' design I'd say.
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Ah so! Self-depecrating humour then... I get it... :rotfl:
 
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