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Plunge into the centre with a 12mm milling cutter, move the table by 3.22mm to remove the majority of the material in the radiused area.

Using a 2mm diameter milling cutter to square off the hole, travelling 10mm across the bottom and 10.686mm along the sides should give you something like in the picture.

Finish the corners with a file.

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 02/06/2023 00:40:59

Ok, if it's brass then forget the aluminium washers.

Maybe a Spotface cutter would do the job.

What about trying some aluminium washers?

Martin.

At the end of the day, this is computer code and will have desirable and undesirable features along with copious bugs.

As with other tools, it will be used for good & bad, but if people think it can be programmed for only good, then they will need to see that what is viewed as virtuous by one person could be viewed very differently by another and so the desirablity of features becomes a matter of opinion... And we all know where that leads.

For instance: Search Engines can block or prioritise content - is this good or bad?

Martin.

Ady.

The tank is coming along nicely - the tracks already look quite impressive.

I'm sure the Austin 7 badge, made in Alibre Pro, would be quicker and easier to do than in Atom, but it's a fair bit more dosh, so we're back to finding something we can use and understand, that has the right tools for the job in hand, and can be had for a price we can afford/willing to pay.

Lee.

Coming back to the tangent question we were both looking for a solution to. It turned out to be covered by the Construction Lines that are built in to almost all of MoI's drawing tools and are initiated by click & drag.

I think MoI has a pretty good 'snap' setup and can usually find tangents etc to most curve combinations, but this particular scenario isn't covered in a single click solution. I've done another video to show that it's a fairly trivial problem to solve with MoI's Construction Lines.

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 28/05/2023 19:49:23

Fair enough, Lee.

Sounds like Fusion 360, Solid Edge, or Alibre might be your best options after all.
I did use ViaCad for a while, but got fed up of trying to remember what all the different tools did and frustrated when they didn't work.

I'm still interested in what you finally choose.

Martin.

Ultimately, as long as we have access the the top of Big Ben, then we can keep this thing under control.

Martin.

In the good old days, typing in 'Why?' was guaranteed to cause any computer to self-destruct in an endless loop...

And never type Google into Google - even as a joke - as you'll break the Internet.

Martin.

That sounds like progress to me Lee. I think you are doing well, considering that you're coming from a parametric environment into a slightly more 'nuts & bolts' way of doing CAD.

I hope it works out for you.

Martin.

Using Flow to apply text to a 3d surface to make an Austin 7 nameplate.

There's a bit of waiting for my old laptop on this video as MoI crunches the numbers.

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 23/05/2023 21:22:57

Lee.

The length and position of the base curve in relation to the items to be flowed is significant, as is its length in relation to the target curve. I've tried to give a few hints in the attached video.

Martin.

Did you use the Flow tool to position the text?

Martin.

Jason.

Good point about the cores being a bit complex in the last video, but bits could be added or deleted pretty easily. Using the Merge tool can be a real help for making patterns from the model.

Martin.

There's no transparency (yet) in MoI, but take a look at the script in this thread to see if it might help.

To add the script in MoI: Copy it straight from that linked page, go to Options > Shortcut Keys and click Add, press the key you want to use and then paste the scrip into the box.

There's also Display Hidden Lines under View in the tools menu.

Martin.

Lee.

Here's a link to my post to Michael and his reply.

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 23/05/2023 01:15:38

I'm using v5 and can easily repeat it, so it's one of those 'obvious' bugs that only new users seem to find.

I've done a video of the problem for Michael so I'm sure he'll look into it. I know he's busy integrating the ACIS kernel into MoI at the moment, so we'll see what he says.

Martin.

Lee.

I think you've found a bug! I've never seen this myself, but I can repeat it. I'll post a notice on the MoI forum and see if Michael will take a look.

Well done!

Martin.

I didn't do the booleans properly in the previous video, so the cores are wrong. It's better in this snippet.

Martin.

Don't we all.

Martin.

I whizzed through a video of your cylinder head(ish). The video is a bit messy, but should serve its purpose. It's pretty much done as Jason describes. You'll see I defined some of the curves and then hid them, so I just remade them on the fly - sorry if that's a bit confusing.

Try turning off individual faces by double-clicking on them and hiding them. If you give them their own colour, you can switch them on & off at will under the Scene Browser>Styles.

As you have found, STLs from MoI are very,very good. They can be treaked to get the right resolution for curved areas, without a massively high number of triangles too.

Martin.