I have had this old Geodimeter Model 6 for years and it is just cool to look at. Heaviest freakin thing ever. I am trying to get myself psych'ed up to model it in 3D. I think I am going to take it home and have it sitting there, so, during football I may model it. The old stuff is sooo easy, flat panels and 90° angles.
That is an old Wild T1 for perspective. Yes the first tripod mount EDM was BIG! This instrument was 1965, if there was something before that do tell.
I am not going to model all of the accessory boxes that actually make it work though. That would be crazy. I am thinking I added that tribrach to display it as it looks Sokkia to me, so the digital model will have the GDF-22 that all the other models have
Never seen one. Cool. I learn something new every day!
The first electronic measuring device I ever saw was up on Buffalo Peaks in Chaffee County, Colorado; late summer '64. The Homestake Water project was under construction heading for South Park. My father was field engineer on the project in charge of the surveying.
I was truly amazed at these high-tech wonders:
They were tripod mounted and pointed at each other and it took a long time to get everything cooking. I was experiencing the "future-things-to-come" in real time!
That's even easier to model, LOL
3d printer build a prosthetic hand
What a cool story.
Maybe a sinter could be used to build some of the parts that need to be little more ruggedized like finger tips or knuckles.
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That is so very cool! Very glad the design er made it open source as there would have been more than a few trial and error items that would have needed to be done. It appears to have been made by extrusion, so, yes I agree with you a sinter would be better. Stuff that I want a lot of flex in I print at a 0.8 to 1.5 mm thickness. If I want something solid, as little as 3 mm thickness is amazingly strong and 4 mm is solid. The gear shift knobs I make are a combination of 3 and 4 mm and I was printing in sinter to mock up for a steel print. They are so strong in plastic, I am not even considering steel anymore. The few of you that have seen one know what I mean.
Spent some time on it today
OK, I forgot how time consuming these could be. I am done for a while as the desire has definitely subsided and I have lots of surveying issues facing me next week. It is way more complicated than I thought at first blush too. It will look cool done.
Scope is done and there really isn't that much left to do. I did a quick size comparison just for fun. It would look more startling if the old school was a T1 as they are much smaller of course
NICE....
Can't be any harder than beating the Buc's....:snarky:
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The after MNF posting. Worked on the back face, not done....
I did not want to build real VU meters so they look a little wonky
Finishing a Model 6 model
I have the entire upper portion done. I just need to finish the area around the tribrach support. I have always found it interesting that as early as this is it is setup for a standard tribrach. Those things are older than I give them credit for. Of course if I was Geodimeter and a laser scientist in the early '80's I would have used someone's tribrach too. Did not spend much time on it as I had a couple of scan projects to stitch together and then rotate and translate.
Can you tell I figured out how to do more realistic screen shots? The two wire ends on the bottom photo connect on the real machine. I haven't figured out how to connect them and still have the digital model maintain motion. The scope spins without hitting anything, which is always a good sign that I didn't blow something. The coolest thing about the Model 6 is you look in the little ocular at the SE corner of the last picture and you can see down the main scope.
Almost done
A little left to do for the horizontal crawl and the base support. Intense amount of detail. Learned a few new techniques though. I want to finish as I have a 1/24th scale all printed model car kit sitting in the wings. All done from laser scan. Basically finish the frame I did last year with all of the panels and other parts.
These are such cool instruments and this stupid project is catching just that. I am very happy with it and at the same time sick of seeing it.
Done, done, done!
My pointless project has been completed and looks outstanding, even if I say so myself.:-P
I will probably make a Christmas ornament out of it just because I can.
Done, done, done!
That's a sickeningly realistic model. I haven't been following your efforts, so my questions may already have been answered, but here goes anyway:
What hardware and software are you using to create the digital model? What hardware and software are you using to print the 3D recreation?
Thanks!
Instrument modeling
Jim, I use a combination of a lot of skills developed over the years. I am a motorhead and used to have a lot of cars that I made go faster and better. To that end I rebuilt my own engines and blueprinted and balanced them. I still have those tools. Vernier calipers, micrometers, depth gauges and measuring rods are very handy. A base laser scan is the most handy, but, if you are using survey grade scanners the level of detail is not there and you have to supplement. I have used both a time of flight and a phased base for a base and to help with making parametric shapes from odd things. If it is square'ish, I will use mic's.
This started out as taking BIM skills to the next level, so, yes scanning is involved. Although I have done them without any scanning, the HDS 6200 is a great example of this, as it is just a rectangle. I do not have access to a metrological laser scanner just three survey grade ones. The first one I did was the T3 and was an exercise to achieve some specific skills I was looking for, as were most of the others. This Model 6 was just because I wanted it for some reason. I just carried the anvil from my car back to the office and my desire for it is a little less every time I pick it up.
As far as software, I use Cyclone, Netfabb, Meshlab, Autodesk Inventor, 3DS Max, AutoCad, TerraModel and InStep. I have used RapidForm and ZW3D for some of the parametric modeling, but, mainly I stay in Cyclone and Inventor. I am focusing on CNC code now as I want to make some full size car accessories with my CNC. I needed this precise modeling to be able to make the shapes for CNC.
This is all five together ...
Left to right
* Geodimeter 600 series robotic
* Wild T3 (late 50's to early 70's)
* Geodimeter Model 6 (1964 and 1965)
* Leica C10 laser scanner
* Leica 6200 laser scanner
As far as printers, I have priced most of them and I find Shapeways the cheapest with good service, so, I use them exclusively right now. I have printed in detail plastic and laser sinter as will as stainless steel and gold plated brass. I want to print in Chocolate just for fun and I am making my wife some jewelery for Christmas in printed gold plate. I haven't come up with Christmas survey women's jewelery that I actually like, so, none of it is surveying based
Norm
I made the changes to make a 1/6th scale printable and placed it on Shapeways. Much to my surprise it is cheaper than both scanners at the same scale http://shpws.me/pSef
I let all of the instrument models render unattended for 2.5 hours with all settings maxed out. Kind of cool picture. The forum does shrink it though
Would it be possible to get that Geodimeter 600 series 3d printed?? I'd love to have one in my office.
Oh, wait There it is!
https://www.shapeways.com/product/JYK4RHB9U/geodimeter-600-1-4th-scale?optionId=43036816
Norm Larson, post: 232616, member: 7899 wrote: I use a combination of a lot of skills developed over the years. I am a motorhead and used to have a lot of cars that I made go faster and better. To that end I rebuilt my own engines and blueprinted and balanced them. I still have those tools. Vernier calipers, micrometers, depth gauges and measuring rods are very handy
Cripes, you??re like a modern day Smokey Yunick on steroids. 😉
