[Lab] Can you 3D print for me?

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

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).

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <
jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:

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