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For christmas for my sort of step dad I guess. I'm going to make a sign for his vintage race car. It's like a 1927 or earlier, can't remember exactly but it's old haha. The sigh will lighten up. I've began by doing a little bit of CAD of the sign. I now have something to work off. Here's the step by step of me doing it.
This is the logo of the car
Now I imported the image into sketchup and tried drawing around it. Look closely and you can see my lines. I'm sure the badge is hand painted which posed an issue designing a cad one. What I found best was to create two datums for each axis. I Then worked from the datum of one side and measured to the other which as you can see, is qute far out. I wasn't too concered.
After finising the top half I just mirrored it and span it 180deg. Here we have the H
Fitted it to a circle,managed the gold round the outer circle easily but the fold stripe round the H was more tricky.
Basically the easiest way I found was to section the H into four peices, design one 10mm smaller on all but two edged.
Mirrored that, once then made the half H again, mirrored and spun it 180deg.
Centred it on my original drawing, coloured it in completing the drawing.
I don't have a pic but I made the H in two separate windows, made one an engineering drawing and the other i'll print out and use as a scale template.
The white bits on the drawing above are cut outs. I will be cutting the H out and then making a white light behind it. with a backing circle similar size to the front circle. Hopefully that makes sense.
For christmas for my sort of step dad I guess. I'm going to make a sign for his vintage race car. It's like a 1927 or earlier, can't remember exactly but it's old haha. The sigh will lighten up. I've began by doing a little bit of CAD of the sign. I now have something to work off. Here's the step by step of me doing it.
This is the logo of the car
Now I imported the image into sketchup and tried drawing around it. Look closely and you can see my lines. I'm sure the badge is hand painted which posed an issue designing a cad one. What I found best was to create two datums for each axis. I Then worked from the datum of one side and measured to the other which as you can see, is qute far out. I wasn't too concered.
After finising the top half I just mirrored it and span it 180deg. Here we have the H
Fitted it to a circle,managed the gold round the outer circle easily but the fold stripe round the H was more tricky.
Basically the easiest way I found was to section the H into four peices, design one 10mm smaller on all but two edged.
Mirrored that, once then made the half H again, mirrored and spun it 180deg.
Centred it on my original drawing, coloured it in completing the drawing.
I don't have a pic but I made the H in two separate windows, made one an engineering drawing and the other i'll print out and use as a scale template.
The white bits on the drawing above are cut outs. I will be cutting the H out and then making a white light behind it. with a backing circle similar size to the front circle. Hopefully that makes sense.
