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daniel_dsouza
28-05-2012, 14:39
[cdm-description=photo]38016[/cdm-description]
Tom Ore
28-05-2012, 14:41
Very nice render! Good work!
DominickC
28-05-2012, 14:42
*bows* How humble!
Akash Rastogi
28-05-2012, 14:51
Freshman persuasion stick*.
akoscielski3
28-05-2012, 15:03
Dont forget its most important use.

A grade nine beating stick :D

EDIT: Akash beat me to it... Great minds think alike. Maybe next time i'll read through the whole thread before commenting ;)
rsisk
28-05-2012, 18:12
The Wrench for President!
daniel_dsouza
28-05-2012, 19:09
Very nice render! Good work!

Thanks, I'm learning SolidWorks, and this seemed like a good idea!
Gregor
28-05-2012, 19:14
I've seen many great pictures of CADed robots this season, and realized that the tools that we use to build them don't get enough credit. So here is a tribute to the battle-hardened wrench. It can be used as a crowbar, a hammer, a pointing stick, and also as a wrench.


And also as a wrench ;)


A grade nine beating stick :D


Hey >:l
Ekcrbe
28-05-2012, 22:35
Hey >:l
Freshman power!

Don't forget noisemaker and attention-grabber (plus anger-venting fodder).
akoscielski3
28-05-2012, 23:15
Hey >:l

What you guys don't have a paddle to "Encourage" grade nines to deburr?

I broke ours on one of our students... ;)
Which reminds me... I have to make a new one for next year... I think i'll start designing it.
MattC9
28-05-2012, 23:19
Its also pretty good at fixing things... just sayin'
Richard Wallace
29-05-2012, 05:46
Is your model parametric, so that you can drive dimensions for a wrench of any size from a table? Since this is a learning exercise, making the model parametric would be a good goal. Might even lead to useful results, or at least to interesting artistic combinations.

:]

(Ooh, really bad pun.)
Jared Russell
29-05-2012, 13:03
The Wrench for President!

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/images/time_simpsons_5.jpg
daniel_dsouza
29-05-2012, 13:06
Is your model parametric, so that you can drive dimensions for a wrench of any size from a table? Since this is a learning exercise, making the model parametric would be a good goal.

Can you recommend how I would go about doing this? I didn't even know this was possible! I had just stuck with a size 22, because taking measurements was easy.
billbo911
29-05-2012, 15:37
Well, now that you are talking "measurements", please include the size on this beauty. My suggestion......."7/16".
JosephC
29-05-2012, 17:55
Well, now that you are talking "measurements", please include the size on this beauty. My suggestion......."7/16".

Seconded!

Step 2: Make it a 7/16 ratchet.
emekablue
29-05-2012, 22:57
Seconded!

Step 2: Make it a 7/16 ratchet.

Thirded! (Is that even a word?)
Step 3: Make your entire tool chest!

jk, but seriously, great work. I'll show this to some of my newbies in CAD for inspiration.
JosephC
29-05-2012, 23:11
Thirded! (Is that even a word?)

If it isn't it should be.
DampRobot
01-06-2012, 09:46
Is your model parametric, so that you can drive dimensions for a wrench of any size from a table? Since this is a learning exercise, making the model parametric would be a good goal. Might even lead to useful results, or at least to interesting artistic combinations.
(Ooh, really bad pun.)

While changing a variety of parameters based on a table would be one way to do it, you could also create multiple configurations of the same part. I'm not as well versed in SolidWorks as I am in Inventor, but I believe this is the way that professionally modeled parts (like screws, etc.) are given multiple sizes.