Yes, measurements are in mm, and also yes you can use sketchup (it's what I use for most of my 3d printed designs, but lately I've been doing more and more in openscad).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Though the wheel you sent looks good. I am assuming the measurements are in mm?<br>
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"Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
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</div>On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Great thanks, Ill take a stab at it. If google sketch up exported to<br>
> stl could I use that?<br>
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> Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
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> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby<br>
> <<a href="mailto:themumbys@gmail.com">themumbys@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I have taken the liberty to whip up a quick "Wheel Generator" in OpenSCAD...<br>
>> Probably doesn't rival something that Andrew Plumb would put out ;) but it<br>
>> should get the job done...<br>
>> It's set for higher precision circles, and lets you tune all the parameters<br>
>> you like to make a nice wheel...<br>
>> Just download OpenSCAD from <a href="http://www.openscad.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openscad.org/</a> (scroll down to the<br>
>> releases page, I'm using the windows version just extracted the zip and ran<br>
>> from the folder).<br>
>> then open up my script (attached) at the top there are several lines of<br>
>> parameters you can change about the wheel. When done tweaking, hit F5 to<br>
>> render it and see what it looks like... you can revise as much as you like<br>
>> and keep hitting F5 to re-render.<br>
>> When done just send the scad file back to me and I can render it out to an<br>
>> STL and print from that.<br>
>> Or if you wish you can hit F6 to render CGAL, then go to the design menu,<br>
>> and export as STL, and most people should be able to print from that, or cut<br>
>> it on a CNC I would imagine.<br>
>> Let me know if you want me to print it. I believe I might have enough<br>
>> plastic on the UP (more coming Friday I believe) and I hope to have my<br>
>> reprap back in working order by tomorrow (and it has tons of plastic lol)<br>
>> - Paul<br>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Thanks Paul/Andrea its much appreciated.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I have attached a google sketch up of what I was hopping to have or<br>
>>> similar. the wheel does not seem to be as round as i would like.<br>
>>><br>
>>> the inner circle part is 5.5mm wide and 4mm high. The rest are just<br>
>>> approximate 10 cm diameter wheel 1 cm thick (to put an elastic on it)<br>
>>> Let me know what you think.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I don;t really thin 10 cm will be too big. I think the motors are<br>
>>> powerful enough.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
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>>><br>
>>> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
>>> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
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>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Paul & Andrea Mumby<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:themumbys@gmail.com">themumbys@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> > I am sure we could work something out. If you send me specs and<br>
>>> > measurements<br>
>>> > and perhaps a rough sketch i could likely do the design work too if you<br>
>>> > have<br>
>>> > trouble<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > On 2011-04-11 9:48 AM, "Jean-Marc LeBlanc" <<a href="mailto:jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com">jeanmarc.leblanc@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>> > wrote:<br>
>>> >> Hi<br>
>>> >> I am building a robot for the ORE_bit life folower, I bought this<br>
>>> >> base, and the wheel a gear up a little too much I find and its a<br>
>>> >> little slow. So I though I could make bigger wheels.<br>
>>> >> Does any one think If i made a google sketch up of the wheels and pay<br>
>>> >> for the plastic, they could print some for me?<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> I have never sketched any thing for 3d printing and have limited<br>
>>> >> experience with google sketch up though.<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> Also I was thinking if this works well maybe I could print a custom<br>
>>> >> frame for it?<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> thanks,<br>
>>> >> Jean-Marc Le Blanc<br>
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>>> >><br>
>>> >> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and<br>
>>> >> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds<br>
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