Leg light

Lynxmotion Legged Robots
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Hello

I have a chr-01 but I did not get the leg light kit does any one have drawings or tech specs so I could make it out of lexan

Thanks

Codemaster

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What file format would you like it in?

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pdf is fine if you have it or turbocad 16

thanks

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We don’t draw these sort of shaped parts with dimensions. We design them and cut them on lasers. So a PDF wouldn’t be much help because it has no vector based information. I can try sending you a DXF? I have no experience with the Turbocad program.

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i’m sure it will be fine but as i dont have a cnc machine or laser cutter i am cutting them out by hand so as long as i can open it and print it it will work

regards,

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Ah ok I will try to make you a 1:1 scaled bitmap.

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Here it is as a PDF you just have to make sure there is no scaling when it is printed. The boxes are 1" long by .25" wide.

leglight.pdf (377 KB)

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Just out of curiosity, what do you design the “curvy” parts with?
What do you turn over to your CM (shop) with?

Alan KM6VV

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I have used CorelDRAW! since version 3. I’m currently using X5 which is basically 15. I send parts to the job houses in DXF if they can’t take CDR.

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Thanks for the drawings :smiley:

Regards

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CodeMaster, you may unwittingly have become my new Best Friend. I can’t believe there is another TurboCAD user in this world full of AutoCAD and Solidworks people. :astonished:

I have TurboCAD 14 Professional which I am crash-course teaching myself with an eye toward enlarging the library of Lynxmotion 3D SES objects. I am able to import and use most of the objects currently available on their SES 3D Models page. I want to create working CAD models of some of the Lynxmotion kits which I could eport to Poser for animations, another hobby of mine. Since I am using part files drawn by other contributors, I would of course offer anything I draw to Lynxmotion for possible inclusion on the models page.

My immediate goal is to draw the body side-plates of the T-Hex. It would be so easy if TurboCAD could accept input from a scanner or some sort of picture file, but it can’t. (It does BMP, GIF, and JPG as export only.) If I could import a picture, I could place a few key dimensions and scale for my result.

Your TC16 is two versions newer than mine. Can yours import pictures? Have you figured a work-around to solve my problem? Or am I doomed to the joys of drawing from scratch?

I got my TC at fire sale prices when they released ver 15. I can’t afford to buy another full featured CAD program for the limited use I envision.

Thanks for any advice you can give. :slight_smile:

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In my Vector CAD/CAM, I can import a bit-map (JPG), place points at various vertices’s (?) on the drawing, and then “connect the dots” and scale to suit. I did this for some jaw designs I was studying. Once the drawing is scaled, you can go about adjusting various points and lines to conform to simple integer and decimal (metric?) dimensions as you like.

Alan KM6VV

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Hello

Roboted I can import the ses bracket when it is in .3ds don’t know if you could though I will try post A file soon

I have had the software for a while but I don’t use it much cause I don’t know much about it

Regards,

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i could not post it because it did not accept the file extention but i could send it to you via email or tell you how i did it.
steps:
download ses bracket in .3ds
open a new turbocad file
click insert (top tab)
select file (3 from bottem ) if it comes with a message warning starting with (For “Insert file…” and “Extract from…” operations) click yes
select type of file 3d studio
select file name
click open
it should be there

regards,

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Thanks , Alan, you have described a process similar to what I had in mind, but see below:

Thank you, CodeMaster, for your offer to email me files. Actually I have had no problems working with the .3ds and STEP files already on Lynxmotion’s products page.

I apologize to you both for not answering you sooner. I am having 5 cervical vertebrae fused Monday morning, so I have been direccting my time to getting the house ready for my wife and my recuperation.

[size=150]Problem Almost Solved:[/size] Semantics may be the root cause. I have been trying to IMPORT .bmps or .jpgs into TurboCAD. Can’t do it probably because those raster files can’t become parts of a vector drawing. But by lots more wandering through their badly indexed, badly cross-referenced documentation, I find I can INSERT a raster image, move it onto its own layer, make a different layer active, trace the image onto the active layer (the tracing is now vector not raster), hide or delete the raster image layer, and press on with the vector image.

My first attempt is dismal, but the process is now known. Now it’s a matter of better work starting with a higher quality scan. That may be some time after surgery.

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Ouch… Hope you fully recover soon!

As for uploading or emailing some file formats, I have also found that at times you need to put them in a zip file. to upload or email them.

Good luck!
Kurt

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Thanks, Kurt, that makes two of us. My wife is still thinking it over.