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David Colwill	16/05/2012 17:45:49
782 forum posts 40 photos	I'm about to re arrange the layout of my workshop and am going to prouduce a CAD drawing of the floor. Then I can make templates of the machines which can be moved around to explore various layouts. Being lazy I felt sure that others before me would have produced DFX drawings of various machines, it seems not. I first tried searching for the lathes that I own,no joy. I then thought surley something as common as a super 7, still no joy. Just a thought but seeing as we often have the same types of machine could we not store the outlines as DFX's for this pupose and make them available to all? David.
Mark P.	16/05/2012 18:15:25
634 forum posts 9 photos	Floor plans are OK but they don't really work in the real world.Sometime ago I worked for an airline,we had a new hangar built which would house 3 757 aircraft at the same time which it would if one was craned in.Only my twopennerth. Regards Pailo.
merlin	16/05/2012 21:33:56
141 forum posts 1 photos	I have always cut out bits of cardboard more or less to scale and shuffle those around on a sheet of paper. Leave a long thin bit to denote the space needed for long items protruding from the headstock mandrel. You don't need a computer programme or even a computer, just a rule and a pair of scissors.

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