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Organising stuff is always a good way to cope and yields a positive result, especially in a workshop, because it makes doing your model engineering tasks easier

Chucking stuff out that needs cleared helps too, we always need more space

I've had it my whole life and after switching jobs every 5-7 years for decades realised it was some sort of genetic thing perhaps connected with my dads OCD

Total commitment until I figured something out... then not really too interested anymore because all that was left of it was the irritating monkey politics

He would collect stuff like a massive original jazz collection... then dump it at a record shop for a few hundred quid and start collecting opera stuff

Fortunately, real world engineering is a never ending problem covering a vast spectrum of subject matter so there's always something to squeeze our braincells

Being "afraid" of doing stuff tends to be anxiety related but I've never really been a sufferer, my dad has it really bad and wakes up shaking

I have noticed a fair number of folk around me have developed it since the pandemic and some have quite severely restricted their lives compared to previously

Thing is, nothing has really changed in the real world since before the pandemic and I try to explain that but it doesn't appear to help for anxiety sufferers

I just compare us with the pre-war brigade I grew up with and how they got through everything by bashing on regardless, two world wars, the great depression, spanish flu, no healthcare, no antibiotics, slum housing, 4 to a room etc so I consider myself to be super-lucky no matter what happens nowadays

Edited By Ady1 on 07/05/2023 09:09:16

If I don't know what to do and everything appears uninteresting I tend to visit Wiki and end up opening all sorts of pages to different things

Ended up stuck on Roman history until about 3am the other night, (what a bunch of hooligans)

Nice one Max

Nigel

One of my "homework" jobs was a scale drawing of my arbour press which is a relatively simple tool

Now I use that drawing for building all my modifications and for solving any problems

no need to go scrabbling about in the workshop trying to build stuff any more, just sip a cup of tea and ponder the task in comfort while at my computer desk, then draw the idea-parts, bring them in and check for fitments and build issues. I've already been saved from a few wasted jobs/ideas.

When I go back into the workshop I know exactly what's needed (well 90% of it anyway)

The time spent learning to use Alibre now really does save you huge amounts of time and effort later on

In this example the square adapter on the nose of the ram for holding the former is too big and fouls the sheet metal being folded to 90 degrees in the die press, so that's a dead plan but Alibre meant I never had to make it to find out it was a failure

Edited By Ady1 on 06/05/2023 10:59:40

I know that bit thanks, and if you change the aspect to figure out which way round you actually are, then click reset-view it returns to the first position, which IS useful

I assumed that the view cube was unavailable in sketch mode

So you have to right-click-hold to check your aspect once things get more involved

It's one of the programs weaknesses, you ask for a surface, click sketch, and it flips and turns into a totally different aspect

It's not just you Nigel, its one of those things all users have to learn to deal with

Totally the way to go, I just bang in holes, 6mm 8mm 10mm whatever, and focus on the main job

At assembly time I line up the holes

Threads just consume CAD memory and do nothing useful

Edited By Ady1 on 06/05/2023 10:27:36

The long lived stuff if you have any is neoprene

Even if it gets folded/unfolded it goes on for years

Or a link to somewhere you manage to get the picture uploaded

The cam gives you good leverage, feel, and accurate depthing

The assembly bit makes all the grind worth it Nigel, especially since you have credible movement

Stick at it, keep your chin in and keep swinging

Nice to see you back Hopper. Wondered how you were doing.

I needed a 12V supply years ago and got a box for a kids train set from ebay

The older ones were made pretty bulletproof

I always anchor the main body/base first and then bring in the parts

That's why I got Alibre Atom, the assembly-movement function takes you to the next level and it works really well

Going back and forward causes issues and I do what you do, save the file and reopen it to clear the cache

https://www.gov.uk/product-safety-alerts-reports-recalls/product-safety-report-vevor-diesel-parking-heater-zm5001-2212-0144

"The product presents a serious risk of asphyxiation due to the potential for passengers to inhale dangerous levels of poisonous gases should the product not be installed correctly. "

This could be said about any product on planet earth

Discuss

Copy the lot into a specific folder in your C drive and give it a whirl?

Sometime you have to "force" an item into its position by using the constraints in two stages

First stage you get it into a basic ok position

Then you DELETE those constraints and it will stay in its new position/direction

Then apply the constraints you wanted originally

It can be a bit fiddly, but it works eventually

Just another skill you have to master Nigel, practice practice practice

Aha.

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