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More Pivoting...
Continuing in the pivoting vein, these are the pivot points we are using for the top of the masking walls I mentioned above. If you haven’t seen the half cheesebouroughs before, they are hard to beat when attaching stuff to pipe. edit: Oh yeah, you can find them at BMI....Solutions
Pivot Puck
We need to pivot a few masking walls for our upcoming production of Hughie. So this little UHMW bugger was born; I like to call it a pivot puck. Screw the puck to a surface and place a shaft in it (our shaft is welded to plate steel that bears on the top surface of the puck) and you’ve got an instant pivot point! (Just make sure the screw heads are countersunk below the surface....Solutions
The Lazy Drafter (blog)
The Lazy Drafter. I stumbled across this site a few days ago. As I am a lazy drafter myself, I’m already a big fan. If you work in AutoCAD, consider it recommended reading. For those who enjoyed the post on imperial & Metric Conversions, I’ll recommend this post (Automatic Scaling…), it compliments mine nicely....AutoCAD LISP routines
I’ve thrown a few of my most frequently used LISP routines on here. You’ll find the files & descriptions here. I will be adding more as I clean them up and determine where I acquired them (so I can give credit where credit is due.) I am also tinkering with the idea of posting my pgp file; while not especially useful, I am always interested to see what shortcuts other people use....AutoCAD Code
AutoCAD Imperial & Metric Conversions
Yesterday a friend asked me how to convert an AutoCAD drawing from metric to imperial. He needed to dimension in inches and draw imperial sized objects inside a metric drawing. Turns out the Autocad help is not so helpful on this specific subject. Units & Units: So here’s the deal, AutoCAD “thinks” in a drawing units. These drawing units don’t have a real world size. The only relation to real world size they have is the name that we assign to them in the units dialogue box....AutoCAD