You design the part, they make it and ship it to you. Pretty cool.
very cool.
you can do that here on the Pitt campus…they have a machine shop…just fab up some cad schematics and they will do it
back when i was in the engineering school we used to use the program pro engineer on a unix box, and they could take stuff right from that and make it.
that was years ago, so i don’t know what they use now but they can probably help out.
Pro/E is still very much alive and kicking, it’s what we use here for all the boards we engineer and produce…
Pro/E is a great program…after you learn the capability its a very powerful cad program…i spent may hours in the comp lab working with that program
…ahhhh the good ol days…
Wow, thats awesome program. Do any of you guys still have access to a machining machine? I’ve had an idea to get something made and doing a real quick draw up in that program (the topic of this thread) it ended up being $91. I dunno if thats a lot or not for a custom machined emblem?? I used to have acess to a plastic milling machine in high school. maybe its time to give my old teacher a call.
I give PTC 5 years to stay in business if they don’t get their sales department straightened out - it’s like dealing with retards.
Also check out www.extrudehone.com. They have a place in Irwin. Obviously they do honing by an extrusion process, but they also do 3D printing. It’s like a stereo lithography process, but with powdered metal instead of plastic, so the pieces are usable. The porosity of the powdered metal piece is filled with bronze to make it 99.x% solid, and it retains a high percentage of the mechanical properties. You can make pieces that are impossible to machine or cast. They did a presentation for our company and had a sample piece that was a meshed sphere with a little ball trapped inside - can’t machine that!
did anyone actually try to use this program? It’s not real good for 3d work. I have my emblem all done in 2d plus the thickenss of the material (basically how it does 3d) and I need to add pegs to put through the holes. I dont see how to do that in this software.