CNC, perspex case design.....
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It looks amazing, but I can't believe how bloody big it is!
Would it not have been better (in terms of size) to put the slot loading opticals at the bottom, raise the height a little and cut the length down a little so the top right of the front rad and right of top rad are near each other?
Would it not have been better (in terms of size) to put the slot loading opticals at the bottom, raise the height a little and cut the length down a little so the top right of the front rad and right of top rad are near each other?
Its going to be an expensive case !
We used to do lots of Perspex or clear acrylic machining (perspex is ici's trade name for acrylic) but there doesn't seem to be the call now.
I'd be interested in the price your quoted, I know if I quoted it you'd need to sit down.
We used to do lots of Perspex or clear acrylic machining (perspex is ici's trade name for acrylic) but there doesn't seem to be the call now.
I'd be interested in the price your quoted, I know if I quoted it you'd need to sit down.
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It'll definitely be expensive. If I were you I'd be calling up my long-lost-friends to see if anybody works in a machine shop and is willing to do a side job in exchange for a few pints.
I've got a guy who works for pizzas, materials and all.
Edit, you should also be aware that laser cutting would be the way to go on a lot of these parts. Anything that involves cutting through holes is more easily, quickly, and cheaply done on the laser.
I've got a guy who works for pizzas, materials and all.
Edit, you should also be aware that laser cutting would be the way to go on a lot of these parts. Anything that involves cutting through holes is more easily, quickly, and cheaply done on the laser.
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Gettin' there...
It'll just be what I'm running at the moment. Which is nothing special.
e6300, 7900gto, 2gig ram. I want to get a decent case with the ultra quite water cooling full 800rpm noctua goodness, an ultra quite psu although I'm not sure what wattage I would need and all the hdd's enclosed hence the 5.25" bays.. Then I can think about upgrading the rest. I certainly want to go i7 and probably sli although ati are better prices..
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Oh I got money in da bank, shawty what you drank?
Let it be known that my 1.3 Ghz Pentium Mobile-equipped, 6-year-old laptop is not fast enough to model that in anything resembling reasonable time.
Let it be known that my 1.3 Ghz Pentium Mobile-equipped, 6-year-old laptop is not fast enough to model that in anything resembling reasonable time.
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Mmm, thanks. I think I'll have the one on the right.
Gotta do the top and the back panel if we're doing anything with it.
Want anything special for the PSU cutout, or just standard ATX mounting points?
Gotta do the top and the back panel if we're doing anything with it.
Want anything special for the PSU cutout, or just standard ATX mounting points?
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You has a linux (GNU) logo
I'll take a Tux instead.Somehow I borked all of yesterday's work. In attempting to fix it I made it worse.
A little different this time:
In the process I figured out a much faster way to both draw it and get the model generated. Woot.
Which design do you like better, AcidHell, yesterday's or today's?
Todays, with the same size honeycomb effect..
if the front panel is finished, could you pull it of and save it in it's own file. that way i can start emailing some companys and see what they say. have to talk to my dad as well. He's a part time supply teacher, so maybe he has a cnc machine in one of the schools.
if the front panel is finished, could you pull it of and save it in it's own file. that way i can start emailing some companys and see what they say. have to talk to my dad as well. He's a part time supply teacher, so maybe he has a cnc machine in one of the schools.
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I don't quite get what you mean about the same size honeycomb. In both designs the hexagons are the same size; inscribed in a 20 mm circle. The difference is the orientation and the treatment of the boundaries between the fans. The rectangles in the first go stuck out too much for my tastes.
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Ok, here's the whole shebang. As usual it's in SolidWorks 2007 format.:
http://billytheimpaler.googlepages.com/13Feb090751Zcase.7z
Here's just the front uncompressed. Note that it's just about the same size download as the whole thing compressed with LZMA.:
http://billytheimpaler.googlepages.com/front.SLDPRT
I'm going to leave it run overnight to try to fully define the grill sketch to prevent further unintentional borking. I hope my little computational-engine-that-could will cope.
http://billytheimpaler.googlepages.com/13Feb090751Zcase.7z
Here's just the front uncompressed. Note that it's just about the same size download as the whole thing compressed with LZMA.:
http://billytheimpaler.googlepages.com/front.SLDPRT
I'm going to leave it run overnight to try to fully define the grill sketch to prevent further unintentional borking. I hope my little computational-engine-that-could will cope.
Put some effort in to learning sketchup, you can go really far with it. I work in a CAD office, and I try to do as much 3D modeling in sketchup as I possibly can.
It's far far better than it gets credit for. Some people see it or refer to it as a kind of 'toy' that people just mess about with. While I do and can use other CAD packages, sketchup is by far the nicest to work with. I've also started using it with fryrender too and the results are pretty good.
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