Pugsley's Workbench

Looks good! Those bolt heads look very small indeed, are they 0.1mm?

 

I'm waiting to see how various details come out in FUD. I've got features using 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3mm thicknesses but I'm worried some of the small brackets in 0.1mm might not come out.

Thanks Guy.

 

The bolt heads on the front brackets will scale down to roughly 0.4mm (in 7mm scale). I've drawn the part at full size, the same as the buffer, so I can (in theory)print it out at any scale. Of course, there would be features that would end up too small for printing, but it's much easier to delete a few bits than add them.

 

The only questionable bits are the small rivets on the plate on the left hand side, and the hex impressions in the socket head screws, both of which will be around the 0.1mm mark. I'll still submit it as is though, working on the basis that anything that doesn't come out will be virtually to small to see, so won't be missed.

I walked past an SKF logo on a sign in central Wellington last night (we still have small-scale engineering shops in the CBD, amazingly) and recognised it instantly from your axlebox. Very nice work!

Thanks Will, although I must confess that wasn't really my work. Through the miracle of technology, I downloaded some vector graphics from the internets, modified it slightly, then converted it to a DXF and imported it as a sketch into the model. I then extruded that to make the raised lettering, once I was happy with the size and position.

 

I'm impressed that you still have engineering works in the downtown area, in fact I'm impressed that you have engineering shops at all, it's something that seems to be severely lacking over here