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You can pretty well gaurantee that at some point during your project, you'll have to either make one or more parts that would be difficult to draw out, or several of the same part that would take a while to draw out repeatedly. This is where CAD software can be handy. Now I admit that up front there will be a learning curve to get comfortable with the CAD software, but I think the benefits outweigh the up-front learning curve. Plus it's a skill you can learn that you can use in other projects. Standard 2D cad is all you need to get started - and I'll give you a link to a great software that's FREE! SolidEdge 2D Free However any CAD program that lets you draw the shapes, relations and accurately dimension them will do just fine. Note that I'm using a 3D modeling package in this article.
Step 1: Draw your part in the CAD software. Note that with the 3D cad packages you can rotate the part to see it from all angles.
Step 2: Create/print your 2D CAD drawing.
Step 3: Glue the CAD templates onto your workpiece. For this I use a 3M brand aerosol contact adhesive.
Step 4: Cut/Drill/Bend as the part requires. If you have multiple identical parts to finish, you can fasten them together for final finish. The end product here is 4 completely identical parts. Simply peel off the template and wash off the adhesive with acetone or laquer thinner.
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Legal Eagle Fuselage tack welded |
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Time for another progress update! I took a winterim chemistry class so I was a bit busy and hadn't updated for a bit as I didn't get as much done on the weekends as I'd originally hoped. But with the winterim class over I was able to again commit to some building time and finished tack welding the fuselage structure up. Next up is final welding on the entire structure followed by the seat tubes. After that it'll be time to get it on the gear and get the tail group on. So since there's not much excitement in posting pictures of welded up joints, it might be a little bit before I get some noticeable progress posted up here on it. Perhaps the next picture will be of it sitting on it's own gear, or of it with the tail group mounted on it.
Oh, and I have sat in it and made the obligatory airplane noises. :)
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Site Down?! Thanks GoDaddy! |
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If you noticed the site was down for a few hours today (Jan 11th) - sorry! I signed up for automatic domain renewal years ago when I purchased this domain. Since the last renewal I have had to cancel the credit card I used and re-issue with a new number due to some attempted fraud. Unfortunately I didn't remember to come back and update my account payment information to reflect the new card. When the registration expired GoDaddy processed the renewal charge but it failed as one would expect. Except they didn't say "Sorry, we couldn't process your order, you have XX hours to process it" as one would expect. Nope! They canceled all the domains and sent me an email saying the auto payment didn't go through and they canceled my domains! Sheesh! All are renewed and the site should be back up with maybe only 4 or 5 hours of down time. But I might be switching DNS registrars after seeing how fast GoDaddy is willing to drop a customer of over 5 years!
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