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Full CAD rendering

August 3rd, 2007 by Lee

Hey orbsters,orb-projection.jpg

whiling away a slow afternoon stuck inside, daydreaming about rolling robots?  well, now you can all gaze at the juicy bits, without needing a big fancy CAD program!  Rotate, zoom,  selectively hide parts for a better view, the orb is your oyster!

I put an edrawing of the current whole orb assembly here-

http://svn.lee.org/swarm/trunk/mechanical/v0_7/integrated.EASM
(local copy)
which you can view with the free utility here-

http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/pages/products/eDrawingsViewerpage.html
(local copy)

they’ve even got a Mac version-

http://www.edrawingsviewer.com/MAC_Viewer.html

(sorry, linux… maybe VMware?)

This is great for viewing, and reality checking thoughts like “I want to put a giant speaker/flame thrower/LED array/flux capacitor on the orb here.”

The one thing I’m finding it’s not so good for is importing data into a different program.  I guess I’m still looking for a really good portable format that does real parametric solid assemblies.

-mike

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