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Re: Free Bimba Pistons

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Originally Posted by Wren Hensgen View Post
As another user has said, if you just go to the original line page, you can feed in the specs, and get a complete, downloadable CAD assembly, or even a PDF. Bimba doesn't have a standard list of dimensions, even in the catalog. 70% of their work is custom.
That's absolutely not true. Inside the catalog, you can clearly find a dimensioned drawing that indicates their cylinder dimensions for every model they sell. The drawings have a variable for "stroke length" which adjusts some of the dimensions based on the size you order, so you can use this to even calculate non-standard cylinder sizes.

https://www.bimba.com/Global/Library...iginalLine.pdf

The handiest thing about this is that you can use these dimensions to create cylinder mockups when doing 2D design sketches of robot mechanisms, so you don't need to guess a cylinder size, download a CAD model, check if it works, rinse and repeat etc. to find the exact one you want.
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