Recent content by TorontoBuilder

I stopped watching the thread before your post shoe, but I too followed Chucks lead and build a dividing head based on his scrips. I too chose a spindexer as my dividing platform, It was just easier when my milling skills were less than I desired. and when all I really wanted was to play with an...

Oh yeah, years ago now. I even posted photos of it here. Subsequently I entirely gutted the electro-mechanical controls and built a new system and installed a 3 phase motor and VFD with DC injection braking. It is so sweet now. Also recently acquired a bridgeport mill and a hydraulic surface...

Wow rod, I wish I had seen this thread from the beginning. The person I bought my Milling machine from had a CNC plasma machine in his garage. I got to look at it in detail and decided I'd really like one, one day. I wonder if it's worth it for a smaller table size... versus getting 3/8" plate...

I am glad to hear that you're on the mend. I have enjoyed your work and posts over the years and look forward to having you around a might longer. As a person who lives with pain daily I hope your suffering may soon be eased as you heal.

One of the first things I bought for my lathe was a new quick change tool post... mainly because I didn't have a ton of experience and such posts saved me much time and effort in setting up for various operations. Saves me time and head ache.

I tried high school evening curriculum for that but our high schools abandoned metalworking long ago and our colleges are too expensive for evening classes.

Great, that means I can expect that price to come up again. I really want a spindle sander at some point but things keep coming up... My brother just scored 2 Kennedy machinist cases and loads of tooling today that took a chunk of change that I thought would go towards a metal band saw

part of the normal busybee winter sales flyer event of a special deal?

Direct me to cheap unlimited brass and bronze scrap stockpiles and I am all in ;) I know I can get scrap aluminum for free many places. Big city living has some perks

I have a few plans from text books for old steam engines that I converted to cad files. I planned to convert them and then 3d model the moulds and cores and see how much it will cost to have sets cast in cast iron. That's almost my entire reason for getting into 3D. Now however I may just get 3D...

Amen. I began using DOS based Drafix sketch product in the 1980s. Autodesk bought out the company it was such a threat, then they migrated that DOS based product to windows and lost it's innate simplicity and ease of use. I hung onto my DOS copies and pen plotter set-up for a year as a fall-back...

Exporting exploded views using the animation mode is pretty neat and easy feature. I couldnt hep but try it again on my incomplete electronic indexer based on PF70-5C spin indexer.

Well, that was easy. From finished design in the model mode go to the animation mode. Expand the components tree... control click to select every component that you wish to show up in the animation and output drawing. Go to transform tool in the ribbon menu. Select auto expand all, or just...

A quick search showed me the best method is to make the exploded view in the animation section. I haven't played with that yet

If you're speaking about my work I'll do exploded view later. I'm just finishing up another design at the moment and learning how to output the designs to PDF... The one thing I haven't seen is if there is a simple way to achieve exploded view in the model space without losing your carefully...