Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Sharing models

Hi Rich and All:
     Thanks for encouraging me to try again.  I had tried that before but without results.  So I tried again and it works if I first save the photo and then print from the saved file.  Thanks again.
                                                                                       GOD'S BLESSINGS
                                                                                                Bill Thomas

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:32:28 -0500 (EST), Armilite wrote

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> Hello Bill:
>
> For your info, you can right click on most any web/ebay photo and copy,
> paste, save, print. Good way to collect photo's. Some you have to select, then
> copy and past into something like a word doc. i think that's if it's a BMP
> file.
> Most are jpg files.
>
> Rich
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> 4b. Re: Sharing models
> Posted by: "William Thomas" wthomas@... tmw5763
> Date: Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:48 pm ((PST))
>
> Hi All:
> I am like Bill (list Mom) in that I can do things a lot faster with a
> pencil and paper then I can (and many cad guys) do it on the computer. I also
> still do most things in 2d but I have worked in 3d ( wire frames and a
> little solids). When I am working on the computer I have to work out the
> dimensions. In the time it takes me to do this I sketch out the part on paper
> to rough shape so I can get the size relations. So since I all ready have
> the sketch I just add the dimension and then build the part on CAD or the
> real thing. I like CAD and have used AutoCAD since version 2.4 (1985) and I
> have been working with NC since 1962 but, for a lot of things I still do it
> by hand.
> Because of this interest in improving my CAD I started taking photos of
> different tools that I am interested in making for my shop. Just the other
> day I saw a different design for work support on the mill for sell on Ebay.
> The two parts each had 117 drilled and tapped holes in them. I was going
> to buy them just for the idea but they sold for too much. So, I took a
> photo of the enlarged picture on the screen with my phone camera and printed
> it. From the photo I was able to scale the unknown step size and now I can
> draw up the project in CAD and share it with you folks.
>
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