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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