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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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 Posted - Feb 01 2008 : 09:15:12 AM
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Yeah, it's a program language but I really don't want it. I program in assembler. Oh, Good Morning! :)
Well, I'm trying this one now: http://www.freebyte.com/cad/cad.htm the "Solid Edge" link. It is by Siemens. It is huge! They have a good many choices here. Check it out. |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2008 : 9:05:45 PM
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Motor & Pulley
Download Attachment:  Pulley25a.GIF
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ajmix2
Apprentice
USA
90 Posts |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 8:46:04 PM
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| Now all we need is the motor control board and investors then we can start to build prototypes. Then of course sell. That would be cool. |
If at first you do not succeed, try and try again till you can't try no more. |
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cyclopsitis
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
732 Posts |
Posted - Feb 04 2008 : 9:52:07 PM
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| I've been working on an idea for the last two years and the only investment I've had is my own haha! Its only been a few hundread anyway but still. hence my post in the Lounge |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2008 : 08:00:03 AM
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| Please elaborate. Yes, I am in the same boat as you cyclops. I'm always working on somebody elses stuff. |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2008 : 10:17:53 AM
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| I got "Solid Edge" drafting tool downloaded & installed. Wow! This thing is hairy! |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 11:47:32 AM
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Got the complete model worked up:
Download Attachment: WideAngleTilt.GIF
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I had planned to do this anyway...note the name. |
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ajmix2
Apprentice
USA
90 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 3:49:55 PM
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| Wow. You're getting good. How do we plan on doing the motor control board and the regulator board? |
If at first you do not succeed, try and try again till you can't try no more. |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 5:32:31 PM
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Hey! Thank you Ajmix2. I wanted to get it right. You should see the other program I got from Siemens. Solid Edge. It is just like autocad and you can import files from autocad too. It will handle all the production work. After I installed it, it decompressed to over 600 megabytes in just the program directory! I'm getting a good handle on it now. The link is up above.
Anyway we can do the board in Eagle Cadsoft. It has schematic capture and you can produce gerber files with it too. Do you have Eagle? If not, you need to get it. We can share files.
Eagle Cadsoft: http://www.cadsoftusa.com/
Here's a board I recently made with it:
Download Attachment: BB.GIF
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Actually this veiw is from "Viewmate" a free gerber viewer but I created the gerber files with Eagle. I always check them with Viewmate. |
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ajmix2
Apprentice
USA
90 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 8:55:17 PM
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| Yes I have eagle. I have tried to design with it but, i have no luck. I'm struggling figuring out what needs what and where does it need to go. Also, i can't understand the program. If i can design the schematics right i'll just import them. Does it create the board from that? I'll continue to try though. |
If at first you do not succeed, try and try again till you can't try no more. |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 06:36:59 AM
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Yeah the help section has a certain feel to it. I was pretty lost at first, but I finally started learning to use the help. This should help jump start you. I took my own notes as I was learning it. Here are my notes:
Download Attachment: MAKING-G.ZIP
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pebe
Nobel Prize Winner
United Kingdom
1078 Posts |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 08:13:51 AM
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| Mrgone, your BB.GIF board is obviously double sided yet all the tracks are shown in green. Is that how Eagle shows on screen, or is a colour lost in making the .GIF? |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 08:45:17 AM
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No, that is a view from program "Viewmate". Let me get the view from Eagle. Be right back.
OK here is view from Eagle Cadsoft:
Download Attachment: BB.GIF
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Yeah, I should have displayed that first. I just always check my gerbers in Viewmate to make sure they are standard. That was the only file I had laying around when I posted it. |
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cyclopsitis
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
732 Posts |
Posted - Feb 09 2008 : 10:13:31 AM
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| I've never heard of Viewmate before! Is that your circuit for the solar pannel? |
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mrgone
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
1176 Posts |
Posted - Feb 09 2008 : 11:07:26 AM
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| No, it is just the last board I did for another project. Yeah, do a search for "Viewmate". It is a free Gerber viewer and if you want to pay for it, you can edit your Gerbers. So if say you just need to move a hole or move a trace over because it is uncomfortably close to something else like another trace, it is fast & handy! You don't have to go back through the whole process. |
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Solar Panel Sun Tracking
Pulley25a.GIF
WideAngleTilt.GIF
BB.GIF
BB.GIF