Winner

by | Aug 2, 2014 | Pictures

We have a winner it seems. I made each type of panel a different material in Inventor so it’s easy to select them by type. I made a major boo boo with the screw test, I put in a 100 x 100 pattern and now my computer is whiring away like crazy…. I...

Another day, Another Magic Sphere

by | Aug 2, 2014 | Pictures

So far so good, the assembly is far simpler without all those screws and now imports properly. I think I might do a quick test adding a huge mass on screws, not attached to anything, to see if they were causing the problem. I don’t want to add them, line them...

New Panels

by | Aug 2, 2014 | Design, Videos

After much head scratching and messing around I copied the original plate dimensions into a 3D sketch and then sculpted a new panel from that, joined the two parts together, lined up the holes and did a quick render. Makes it sound easy eh?? :p Well the previous panel...

A slice of the pie

by | Aug 2, 2014 | Design

So I spent a couple of hours rebuilding the sphere for the millionth time. I put in screws and built it so every configuration is possible, you just have to hide a level at a time… and of course it won’t import into showcase 🙁 Ok, so it’s a little...