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chest of draws

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Hi all
this is a real world example of FreeCAD usage.

It is an incomplete concept for a chest of draws. This was drawn from the "part" workbench.

Each real world component is made as a separate sold part so that a detailed model is already there for every part required to construct the item.

The colour attribute of the components has been utilised. I showed my little girls a few different colour schemes but this one shown was their choice.

The sliders/draw sides are intended to hang out the rear, somewhat like the manner they are shown. The chest of draws was intended to go under a high bed (like a top only bunk) and hence would have the empty space behind it anyway. The concept was to make the design strong, yet simple to make at home with as little "hardware" required to be purchased as possible.

I thought of the extended slider concept after one of my girls broke the plastic slider on a cheap chest of draws that we had. She would pull out the draw and then to get to some clothing at the back she would lean on the front of the draw.

Disclaimers/usage license: -
1)the model is not complete in all details.
2) the design is entirely my own work, any similarities to any other design are unintentional and are co-incidental.
3) Anyone may use my design for any non-commercial purpose, however if a profit is made from the use of my design or if my design is used for any commercial purpose then a sizable donation must be paid to one or more open source projects, preferably the FreeCAD project.


As per usual the project file is a fcstd file and is not really zipped, just delete ".notreallyzipped.zip" from the file name to load in FreeCAD.

Jim

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P.S. the file is too big, if anyone wants it let me know and I will work something out.
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]back again.

I split the project into one for the draws and one for the frame, now they will just be small enough to upload.

Jim

As per usual the project file is a fcstd file and is not really zipped, just delete ".notreallyzipped.zip" from the file name to load in FreeCAD.
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Hi Jim,
Amazing! You are becoming the most advanced FreeCAD specialist out there...
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Very nice!

When the Arch module gets a few more features (no pressure Yorik ;) ), I plan to model my appartment (I modeled my previous one for fun in Solid Edge).
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I added a couple of new features already, still need to show how to use...

Jim's images above made me think of something I want to do... the draft dimensions, when set to "3D" mode, have their text that stays horizontal to the view... A cool thing would be to "cut" the dim line around the text, like in sketchup
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Thanks fellas

Yorik the dimension lines did work and display nicely in 3d mode when I made this drawing a few weeks/months ago, but when I opened it and posted it here the 3d view had the text zoomed way to big and was a mess, so I turned 3d text off again.

I started making a house model with Arch model, I will be interested to see what you do for a roof.

I may have become a prolific user but I am more proud of my tiny little bit of code that fixed the helix. I know its such a tiny insignificant little bit of code, but I had to work out what was going wrong, research the maths on wikipedia, find the C++ command for getting the square root of something (thanks to Google search). The rest of the C++ I just guessed based on what was already there. I was completely shocked that it actually compiled on my first attempt and then worked once it was compiled.

I had got all excited last night as I had almost finished fixing another little thing and ..... then did an SVN up and it just happens that the very files I was working with have been heavily modified, about half their code has been removed to other files, so I have to start again. :)

Good night

Jim
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