Comments to Machinist

[shenoyja]

I've been through this forum, examples etc in addition to many passes of trying to draw the following:

Imagine a disk, a stick and a brick of the same material. What I need in one piece is:
Disk, then stick straight up in the center of disk, and on top of the stick - the brick.

In one type of problems when I draw this: the tool at the very end - and by itself - gives me disk-brick-stick

In another type I get (& this is really weird): disk-stick-brick stuck to the side of the stick!

In a third type (when I used revolve to create disk-stick-another disk and then intend for second disk cut down to brick) - I get disk-stick-disk with brick shaped hole right in the middle. (also very weird).

Can I take the disk-brick-stick drawing and keep a comment-to-machinist asking for the brick to be moved on top of stick? (Or the disk-stick-disk and asking for the second disk to be machined down).

Or best of all - any tips on what I might be missing? (I sense that rather than a true CAD program, even the drawing tool is CAM based and probably applying some machining rules. But being a EE, cant really think like it is).

Thanks!

[Tech2]

Use the Revolve feature and then chip away per attached.

[shenoyja]

Thanks!

When I had tried the disk-stick-disk and then machine down using arcs, I was either making some drawing error or the 'top' and 'bottom' do not work the same in this tool. Using your example I redrew the part, and after a couple of crashes (tool was not able to connect to your server) , it works for me.

BTW I should specifically commend the ease of use of your tool. Not having used too much MCAD before (some 2D, no 3D), the ability to enter coordinates is just fantastic.

[Tech3]

You can design disk-stick disk without revolve but need to use revolve feature to design square-disk-square.