I don't need it long, I just need to make a 3D model of one for a very ambitious bout of idiocy. Any of the local Seattle guys willing to let me have at one for a week or two?
Found one, thanks for looking
Got it on my desk today and was able to spend sometime and model it.
Old picture links don't appear to work any longer. I can't edit once posted. No text editor functionality, either. I am going to take this as a sign to give Wendell some time. Maybe with time, the threads that are missing might appear as well.
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I took the modeled?ÿDistomat and tried to digitally attach it to a digital Wild T2, but, they don't fit. The three prongs fit like they are supposed too, but, the boss that makes you insert it correctly is 24mm wide on the instrument and 21mm wide on the Distomat. Did Wild make a special screw on boss that made the system work together as I don't see adjust ability in the Distomat? Was there a different Distomat for the T2??ÿ Obviously, I can just make things fit, but, I do want to know the answer
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Curious why you would do this for an obsolete piece of equipment.?ÿ
I have something I am headed for with it that is not parts or really surveying related. ?ÿLike I said, I can just make it work
I guess that I didn't answer your question. I started modeling the instruments as they had many hard to do angles, undercuts and other geometric problems that are all challenging to model. They started out being a test of "could it be done" and then I saw other hard to model objects on other instruments and some I just wanted to do. I am an old timer now, but, I always have tried to do new things. In 1996 I shifted our entire office to full color and voice activated drafting. The full color stuck, but, the drafting by voice at the time was really only working for two of us and we started using automated commands to screw with each other. I wrote one routine that when he said a certain colorful word, it would wipe his screen, draw a fist and proceed to give him the finger. For some reason, he quit using it after that and the whole voice thing went by the wayside.
GPS was added in 1997 and I dove into it very deep. Two years later I had it as the back bone of every project we did as a static base / RTK broadcast mounted in a trailer that we parked on site. The trailer was cool from the flagpole antenna to just a plug that had to be plugged to charge everything. A couple years after VRS came into being, I sold it to a contractor. Somewhere in here the tectonic plate movement that I was surveying on top of got too much to ignore. By this time I had so much data in the area, I had a good idea where they are, so, using the theory of keeping the data locally I struggled with it. It took a while and now I have a program to move data session bases to ones on the same plates or darn close. Then scanning came for me in 2002 and I bought a scanner and Cyclone and taught myself how to use it.?ÿ I scanned everything and came up with a lot of cool uses, but, the modeling intrigued me. I bought a full 3D modeling package and set about teaching myself how to use it and the models of my Ariel Atom and these instruments are where I learned the most. That lead to 3D printing where I have been making some items for the crews and I have some coming that I might sell.
Long road to an answer, but, that's how I got here. Currently, I am trying silicone mold casting of 3D printed parts, so, I may be more levels of dangerous soon. The funny part is, I still use PacSoft and TerraModel to calculate shapes in 2D to transfer to Inventor Professional to do the 3D. The T2 and the Distomat are going to be an attempt to do cartooning in the near future and it is a different type of modeling than I am used to.?ÿ
It all sounds really"cool" to me and inspiring for a lot of whippersnappers out there.
Was there a different Distomat for the T2?
We?ÿhad a Wild DI4L that we had mounted on to our T2.
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Thanks Radar. For some reason your post got me to a website that I hadn't seen before and now I know that the DI3 was a universal model that was replaced in time by the DI4. I like that the DI4 had a side keyboard as that sounds like a great upgrade. My guess is that the dealers probably replaced the "boss" to a smaller one on the T2 and the user didn't know too much about it.
Norm,
I used a Wild DI-10 in 1976.
https://amhistory.si.edu/surveying/object.cfm?recordnumber=748493
Thanks Radar. For some reason your post got me to a website that I hadn't seen before and now I know that the DI3 was a universal model that was replaced in time by the DI4. I like that the DI4 had a side keyboard as that sounds like a great upgrade. My guess is that the dealers probably replaced the "boss" to a smaller one on the T2 and the user didn't know too much about it.
I seem to remember the keyboard came later. We were developing new and improved ways to do topo. The key board helped a little; it gave the number crunching duties to the gunner, the party chief could then concentrate more on the notes...
The one I used in 1978 had toggle switches on face board to enter zenith angle to get HD
Up was odd number and down was even.
