Windmill project

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Re: Need Help Completing Drawings ASAP Please!!

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I reused mem2704's model. As it broke on recompute I used a cheating trick: I left everything as is, made a simple copy of the mat, hid the original mat, and used the transfor tool to turn the simple copy and shift it in place. Done :mrgreen:
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Re: Need Help Completing Drawings ASAP Please!!

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At home, in France some ecologists believe that wind turbines are not beautiful in the landscape, so they propose to bury them, :lol: :lol:
if you prefer that way , I'm OK :lol:
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Re: Need Help Completing Drawings ASAP Please!!

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Work in progress.
Expressions + part/body concept works really fine.
Number of fanblades, angle, intersection change by values in spreadsheet.
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Re: Windmill project

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I have changed the subject of the first post to better reflect its contents for future reference.
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Re: Windmill project

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To link to a previous post
Just for fun
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Done in Part Workbench with all dimensions in a spreadsheet.
I've collected a few dimensions at the top for change tests, all yellow cells have an alias and are used in sketches and placements. Green is for marking cells that are used by expressions in the spreadsheet. Values in white cells are for remembering the standard dimensions, changes here should not affect the model.
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OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.16784 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: ec5720d51c54e6c433cacf207e773aad09dbb25c
Python version: 3.6.8
Qt version: 5.12.1
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)
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Re: Windmill project

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Ha oui , indeed like that I understand, including the kind of cam with 3 lobes
what I missed to understand was the absence of the cat :lol: :lol:
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Re: Windmill project

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I was going to model it using the Spreadsheet approach like Boneshaker used, but now I don't have to do that :lol:

chrisb wrote: Sat May 18, 2019 3:43 pm I have changed the subject of the first post to better reflect its contents
Just to add some keywords: to me it's a whirligig or whirlygig.
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Re: Windmill project

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According to my dictionary it is a children's toy which spins around a vertical axis.
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meme2704 wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 8:21 am Ha oui , indeed like that I understand, including the kind of cam with 3 lobes
what I missed to understand was the absence of the cat :lol: :lol:
The cat would have made the puzzle obvious. :D
bejant wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 6:30 pm I was going to model it using the Spreadsheet approach like Boneshaker used, but now I don't have to do that :lol:
I was curious about your way of modelling this.


Maybe we make a monthly FreeCAD challenge in the showcase forum to build a library of more complex examples.
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