MakerSlide Extrusion by bdring
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This is the MakerSlide extrusion by Bart Dring http://www.thingiverse.com/bdring from http://www.makerslide.com/. MakerSlide is a V rail integrated into a standard aluminum extrusion profile. It's going to make designing light-duty CNC systems easier and more affordable. I've just put the design in a few different formats, so we can start to use it in free software. <b><big>OpenSCAD + DXF</big></b> <b>makerslide_extrusion_profile.dxf</b> : The first step was to bring the published DXF into Blender, convert into millimeters (1 Blender unit == 1 mm), and place it at the origin in a way that will be easy to work with when trying to do translate() calculations in your head, for OpenSCAD. <b>makerslide.scad</b> : This OpenSCAD script just demonstrates using the built-in DXF import-and-extrude function, wrapped in a module, so you can start using makerslide(h) whenever you need to stick a linear slide somewhere. (Make sure makerslide_extrusion_profile.dxf is in the same directory as the OpenSCAD script.) <b>vwheel.scad</b> : model of the delrin V wheel from the drawings for bdring's version 2.0 laser http://www.buildlog.net/sm_laser/drawings.html <b><big>Blender</big></b> <b>makerslide_2D.blend</b> : This is the Blender file I used to make the DXF. (Though I changed the layer name in the DXF source to "makerslide".) <b>makerslide_3D.blend</b> : 100mm extrusion as a mesh in Blender. <b>vwheel.blend</b> : delrin V wheel, with bearing, as mesh in Blender. <b><big>Sketchup</big></b> <b>makerslide_100mm.skp</b> : 100mm extrusion and one v wheel in Sketchup. There is another "dynamic" (parametric length) version of this by Meduza done in Sketchup Pro. Find it in the Sketchup 3D Warehouse, here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=220018fa83b2ba2f52f05c121726c97c ... but no wheel. So check Meduza's model to see if it's easier to work with, and then get the wheel out of my model.
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