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@SplinterGroup, Unfortunately, still not sure I’m following.
One of the things that’s been driving all my decisions for this project has been a question of ideal vs reality. I’ve already had a detailed, almost entirely complete set of CAD plans for this intended build for months now. The issue has been though, Figuring out how to measure weird geometries, pull off weird cuts, that sort of thing, is a lot easier to do in a computer operation, than it is to do IRL. One of my early takeaways was to go back, and redesign the entire CAD model, only this time doing so with the steps in an order-of-operation that could prove possible outside of just this software’s ’fantasy world’ so to speak. Even now, most if not all of the outstanding unknowns in the project are all based in ‘does it make sense to actually do step 16 before step 13’ or ‘yeah, step 8 looks great on paper, but how could I ever do that cut with that level of accuracy in practice?’ Time and time again, I’ve had to adjust my logic on this project after discovering that it’d be impractical to accomplish it with my previously chosen order-of-operations.
Here, from a hypothetical standpoint, it seems like what you’re proposing sounds great. But I’m not following how in practice I’d be able to come to a confident verdict based off a caliper jaw not seating flush?
If you wouldn’t mind, I’m going to request you draw out an idiot-proof diagram of what you mean with how the measuring with the calipers would work IRL.
One of the things that’s been driving all my decisions for this project has been a question of ideal vs reality. I’ve already had a detailed, almost entirely complete set of CAD plans for this intended build for months now. The issue has been though, Figuring out how to measure weird geometries, pull off weird cuts, that sort of thing, is a lot easier to do in a computer operation, than it is to do IRL. One of my early takeaways was to go back, and redesign the entire CAD model, only this time doing so with the steps in an order-of-operation that could prove possible outside of just this software’s ’fantasy world’ so to speak. Even now, most if not all of the outstanding unknowns in the project are all based in ‘does it make sense to actually do step 16 before step 13’ or ‘yeah, step 8 looks great on paper, but how could I ever do that cut with that level of accuracy in practice?’ Time and time again, I’ve had to adjust my logic on this project after discovering that it’d be impractical to accomplish it with my previously chosen order-of-operations.
Here, from a hypothetical standpoint, it seems like what you’re proposing sounds great. But I’m not following how in practice I’d be able to come to a confident verdict based off a caliper jaw not seating flush?
If you wouldn’t mind, I’m going to request you draw out an idiot-proof diagram of what you mean with how the measuring with the calipers would work IRL.
