11 May
2016
11 May
'16
4:25 p.m.
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
Has anyone used a 3D printer to make a case for their
old machine ? I've
started drafting an SGI Indy "skin" in Sketch, but it's just a box right
now, nothing cool.
Not an actual old machine, but I did a mini-blinkenlights replica of an
HP-2100 system that has an Odroid-C1 in one of the boxes and uses simH to
emulate HP Access (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebikes/22213398140).
Each box was bigger than my printer (Makerbot Rep2), so had to be built in
pieces and assembled using thermoplastic inserts. There's also a black 3d
printed light tunnel inside to keep the lights from leaking to the adjacent
lights.
This design was done using OpenSCAD (http://www.openscad.org). For almost
all of my designs these days, I use Onshape (https://cad.onshape.com). Both
have their uses. Onshape has a learning curve, but is extremely powerful.
Mike