WWII Athey Munitions / Fuel Carriage Model

Looks good....Solidworks sure is nice to make models with isn't it?.....Just upgraded my seat of SW to 2014 version. (From 200😎. Can't afford to keep the maintenance up every year. I started with 2001 but you've probably put in a lot more hours on it than I have. Prior to that I used Pro/E for several years. (Mold work mostly) Lately I've been getting a few more hours in doing some cast urethane molds.

Next project is to design some battery box covers for my D6.....

Pet peeve....
Does it bug you on Solidworks that the Top Plane is oriented to the Tridad "Y" axis instead of "Z"? Drives the machinist in me absolutely NUTS...

I have all my settings setup custom, reset the planes, custom templates that tie into an MRP system if needed. I didn't even know that issue still existed with the default planes. I'm still on SW2012, saw no need to dump more money into bloated code. I'll have to upgrade probably around 2016 to keep up with the latest OS.

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Yea, you can reset the view orientation but it doesn't display the plane names for RH Plane correctly (turned 90°) I needed to upgrade partly because my hardware was so old.
Just trying to get used to 2014 ver....lots of changes, not all for the better at first glance, but I'll get used to it.

Not familiar with the carriage you've modeled.....is that something you're going to try and build?

Must be this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx2QyDXEdmc

[quote="Garlic Pete"]

At the end of the three weeks, I did end up with a reasonable, two view, two dimension stick figure outline of two disks with a cylinder connecting them. I was pretty impressed, and I still think I have that program somewhere here in my office on an 8" floppy disk.

I'm glad you posting this here, it will be interesting to follow your progress.

Pete.[/quote]

Well, Pete, if you ever want to run the program again you might be able run it on my Atari 800 computer. And you can check your design with my Post Versalog slide rule!

Never can tell when you might need these things again.

Pete

GP's discussion reminds me years ago to satisfy a Customer requirement I was trying to run a 360/25 running in mod/20 emulation which in turn was running 1440 emulation executing a Cobol to Autocoder translator to compile a Customer written Cobol program.

I would set this thing loose in the evening only to return the next morning with the message "Syntax error". Nothing else.

We finally dropped the project as not worth it.

For the Grandson.

That is way cool. I'd love to have one for my grandson. Good job!!!!!

got to agree that would have to be one happy grand son

Paul