It seems that when I ordered parts from Inventables, I forgot one thing! Seems I didn’t have this Motor Sub Plate that I needed.
Luckily Inventables provides technical drawings and CAD files, so I grabbed the PDF file and opened it in Inkscape…
I had to delete a lot of the measurements on the drawing, but when I was done I had a file that I could easily laser cut. But alas! I have no laser cutter at home… No worries, a bit more work on the file (changing all the curves into segmented lines, connecting all the disconnected lines) and I was able to save a DXF file…
And the DXF file was easy to import into OpenSCAD and extruder as a 3D (well, 2.5D) file and get an STL file, which can be printed on a 3D printer, which is what will be happening in a few minutes…
Digital Fabrication… it’s a thing.
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Hey Pete,
Inventables pdf’s are vector based so they import into Rhino (MAC free version) with no trouble. I just tested this one and it worked well. Just another option…
Excellent… Hopefully I’ll get more Rhino time at some point.