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Martin

I think it could be tool for holding a balance wheel while the balance screws are adjusted.

This a picture of the tool

Tom

Steve

No gripes just use it like autocad took me while to set up the tools the way I wanted them. It also similar to draftsight which works the same way as AutoCad. One good thing is you do not have to search for a tile if you know the command just type it in e.g circle. by the time you have type "cir" the box apears you then select the command and another box pops up with all the autocad options like 2point, 3point and tangent options.

You can open DXF manufacturing drawing created in ATOM3D then modify and dimension easier than ATOM3D. It is also possibe to do the oposite by creating a 2d view then convert to 3d model in ATOM3D.

It is not as easy as just importing a file you have to open the file in ATOM3D then copy and paste into the 3d model page.

Screen shot of file exported from Atom3D to 4Mcad no dimesions

TomK

Steve

I have the clasic version 19 of the 4MCAD software. I can open Autocad files i did in 2002 that were drawn in Autocad 2000.

The software is very similar to Autocad with the same style of command line. There is some things that are different

from the autocad 2000 I used but none that have caused me any problems. It also works well with Alibre atom 3D

TomK

Peter

That is all I have.

Have you looked at Model Engineer

Vol 185

Year 2000

No 4124

Tom Stephens Archer tapping chuck

I don't have that magazine so don't know the content

Tom

This any good

REVERSIBLE TAPPING ATTACHMENT

Tom

parts for a weaving loom

Tom

Link to Percival Marshall recording

5th Posting down

TomK

on 08/04/2020 16:05:48

Edited By TomK on 08/04/2020 16:10:45

Sailing west coast of Scotland on this for 8 weeks

Vic

The tool is a Starrett No. 459 Cutter Clearance Angle Gage

tom

Can anyone tell me how to mate a spring to a shaft in Alibre 3d assembly. I have tried the Quick icon used to mate shafts with holes but cannot get it to work for springs. The screen shot shows the shaft and spring. I want the spring to be anchored to the small diameter on the shaft.

Thanks

Tom

David

I have just joined the Alibre forum thanks for the info

Tom

David

Thanks for to reply

Tom

Thanks for the reply. Neil

Question on animation.

Been looking at animation in Alibrie atom3d. I can get rotation and sliding of 2 items. Is this the limit or can

you get 2 separate parts to work together such as a plunger or a cam coming down on a leaf spring that would show the movement of the spring. The spring is not on a pivot, It is anchored to a flat surface.

Tom

Hello Been learning Alibre Atom3D. have run into a problem with creating a hole in a cylinder at an angle.

Can anyone show me how to put a hole half way along a tapered cylinder at an angle of 25 degrees to the axis of the cylinder to a depth of half the cylinder diameter..

Cylinder is 0.5" dia at larger end an 0.25 " dia at small end.

Thanks

Tom

Dave

ME 1989 vol 162 numbers 3841,3843 and 3845 has the articles on building a CES rotary table

Tom