Recent content by Rod46

Jason your right it is LOOSLEY based on the VW. Reading Brian’s explanation in the mag I would say he did it the same as I probably. That is he scanned a sectional drawing from the Haynes manual imported it as a jpeg into his Cad program scaled it to his required size and basically just traced...

Grasshopper I should perhaps add that I select the colours and material types for each of the components but when you create a sectional view you can leave the colour of the hatching to the cad if you wish, and it does it very well as you can see. And it takes just a few seconds to create a...

Grasshopper if I was drawing these sectional views 30 or 40 years ago it would have been a few days work but these were done in a few hours at most that’s why I don’t mind doing them now. As far as colours on the sectional views are concerned the cad/cam program does this automatically no need...

Not sure if I’ll build it yet. I fancied building an ic engine because I have’nt built one before, done a few gas turbines, and I have a couple of other projects on the go so this wouldn’t be yet anyway. Also much of it would be on cnc, not all, so cad drawings are useful. Yes this part of it is...

Done a bit more.

Thanks Cogsy this is my first ic engine but I have built a few gas turbines in the past and have been in engineering most of my life, both model and industrial, I’m well into my 70’s now. So choosing materials and fastenings etc. not to much of a problem. This will probably run alongside a...

Crankcase of VW Boxer, Righthand finshed Left not quite bu t I'm nursing a sore throat runny nose and spliting head for last day or two so not feeling like doing much at the moment.

I find the copyright thing interesting as regards the model industry. For instance as a aircraft modeller I have built a number of scale aircraft over the years, so by definition I am constantly copying somebody else’s designs, just in a smaller size. As copyright as far as I understand also...

Ah have now read an earlier post by Dr Jo and he already said this was the case.

Does’nt the copyright pass to the next member of the family, if there are any to succeed, until the copyright period has run out. I thought i’d read that in the copyright laws at sometime. But could be mistaken, have to take another look at sometime.

Oh there is nothing missing from these drawings.

I have these plans and am currently going through them to produce 3D Cad drawings, hopefully to build the engine in the near future.