If someone gives me left-top-front etc views of a neo case... I can try to do something with SolidEdge (academic version of SolidWorks). I can't promise exactly when, maybe this weekend.
(And it would be helpful if neo's curves were circles and not complicated splines... :D ) 2007/10/18, Doug Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> for a start that some of us have made on the wiki. is anyone with a > >> GTA01 up for whipping out their micrometer/3d scanner and knocking > >> something together? > >> even better, is anyone at FIC/openmoko able and willing to provide us > >> with detailed drawings of the case? > > > > If this doesn't happen before next wednesday, remind me and I'll measure > > up one of my GTA01s with my digital micrometer. I happen to be 1000km > > from it this weekend (my micrometer not my neo :-) > > > Would be great if somebody did a really thorough job of documenting the > Neo case. In other words, disassemble a Neo as described here: > > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Disassembling_Neo1973 > > and make nice orthographic images of all the case parts, from all angles > -- back, front, edge-on, etc. > > The easiest way to do this is to simply place the parts on a flatbed > scanner. And put a pair of short rulers on there too, at right angles, > for calibration (millimeter scale!). > > The orthographic images produced in this way aren't perfect, but they're > a lot better than what you get with an ordinary camera, at least for > some purposes. You don't have to worry about camera angles and such, > and the resolution is potentially much higher too. > > By all means, make lots of measurements with the micrometer, everything > you can think of that might be useful to somebody who wants to hack > hardware or design add-on parts. But with some good orthographic images > uploaded into the wiki, people would have an opportunity to make > measurements that weren't thought of when the micrometer measurements > were made, or that aren't easy to make with a micrometer. > > Some non-trivial things to measure include draft angles and radii of > curvature (there are lots of these, as molded parts rarely have true > sharp corners on them -- these corners are usually "radiused"). > > Use a high resolution, true color, PNG format. Leave the scanner lid up > and turn off the room lights for a nice black background. > > Yes the image files will be large. I don't mind, I have broadband. :) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- Sébastien LORQUET - 이세영 (李世榮) Ingénieur ENSPG 2006 / ENSIMAG-ASI 2007
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