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Originally Posted by Bandit50
This project involves measuring, and drafting it, in CAD form from a factory spec, if you read the first post of this thread it explains that. This is to provide a plethora of drawing to the community for educational purposes.
At the same time, it's something I can experiment with in CAD, to show others that there is more than just one type of cookie cutter design, and if I find something more efficient, and direct. Ill be sure to inform everyone.
Power trip? Is that why you keep trying to find the issues in everything I write and correcting them to make yourself feel bigger? >.>
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Nobody will give you engineering drafts or factory specs so you can go CAD it up. Good luck with that. I'm pretty sure most of the clones of TM AEGs in the post TM V2 gearbox era basically took a TM apart, reverse engineered it in way of CMM and CADing the parts, and then machined their own. The gearbox clamshells are pretty simple in design. It wouldn't take long to get a fairly well spec-ed clone CADed provided you have the ability and tools.
Again, I'm not the one on a power trip talking about 'your level' and 'that level' while ironically still using an educational version of autodesk inventor. Its unfortunate you feel so as everyone is just providing a discussion. In any case, I think its a neat hobby project anyway. I'm interested in seeing the progress.
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Originally Posted by Bandit50
Also, have I been talking about this forever? Pretty sure I said last year the project will get started in spring, do you not have patients? If i wanted to give out lectures, I would have made a youtube video and linked it. SO yeah this is public discussion, but you know have some respect before you jump in and hijack it.
This was about drafting, not making a gear box from a ingot of steel, and using a CNC machine. >.> Pretty sure I have said that like 8 times now. Experimenting in CAD, is making something in a simulated 3 dimensional space. It isn't drawing something walking over to a machine uploading it through a USB and test firing after it's assembled what do you think this is 3d print a gun? no what i am going for here.
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You're going off on a tangent here. Who is not having
patience? Nobody is demanding you do this right now. Only technical opinions have been provided. You are free to ignore technical engineering and manufacturing related opinions as you so please.
As you are surely aware, getting the precise coordinates to the critical features of the gearbox will greatly help in the CADing and reverse engineering process you plan on doing. As you are surely aware, a CMM or a CNC machine with a touch probe can do this fairly quickly and easily, providing that critical info needed to run into a CAD and drawing it yourself. As you are well aware, CMM is often used in conjunction with manual CADing, and its not as simple as plug and play, and replicate.
If you are happy with using a ruler or a hand held micrometer to get your measurements of the critical features of the gearbox to help in your CAD, then more power to you. If you think you need to 'weld aluminum' and 'temper aluminum' for the V2 gearbox clone (versus say machining it out of a single block of 6061-T6 for example), then more power to you.