Post your homemade cages?

[jclaiborne]

What version of SolidWorks do you use? We use it at work. Fun stuff lol

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Haha yup this is my work liscence, but it's on my work laptop so I get to use it for personal projects on my own time, I am just now learning Solid Works so I figured a cage would be a pretty simple first design. I am using the 2012 x64 edition on a HP EliteBook Workstation. What about you? What do you use it for at work?

[Expensive hobby]

Haha yup this is my work liscence, but it's on my work laptop so I get to use it for personal projects on my own time, I am just now learning Solid Works so I figured a cage would be a pretty simple first design. I am using the 2012 x64 edition on a HP EliteBook Workstation. What about you? What do you use it for at work?

We have the newest edition full version with I think 4 licenses. It does animation of the parts and all kinds of other jazz lol.

We build heavy equipment at our shop from scratch. I'm the machinist so I use a lot of the end product of solid works but we have an engineer that does all the Draft work.

This is what we make:


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[jclaiborne]

We have the newest edition full version with I think 4 licenses. It does animation of the parts and all kinds of other jazz lol.

We build heavy equipment at our shop from scratch. I'm the machinist so I use a lot of the end product of solid works but we have an engineer that does all the Draft work.

This is what we make:


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That is awesome! I grew up in a Machine Shop (family run business) and my dad is the head machinist at the company I am at now, which is an R&D facility designing ventilators. I work in the Developmental Engineering sector as a Tech.

[Expensive hobby]

That is awesome! I grew up in a Machine Shop (family run business) and my dad is the head machinist at the company I am at now, which is an R&D facility designing ventilators. I work in the Developmental Engineering sector as a Tech.

That's cool. I'm the lead machinist taking the place of a guy with 60 years of experience lol. Big shoes to fill. But every part on the machines I've made

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[jclaiborne]

That's cool. I'm the lead machinist taking the place of a guy with 60 years of experience lol. Big shoes to fill. But every part on the machines I've made

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Thats awesome, I haven't worked with anything that heavy. We actually run on the opposite spectrum making tiny tiny parts. I will see if I can snap some pics and post them. First machine I every used was an old Mill (Tree) Then stepped up to a Rambaudi Mill, a MV-55 and some smaller bridgeport lathes. That was at my grandpa's shop that he started when he was 20 in his garage (still in business today) At this company we have a manual bridgeport mill and lathe and one CNC mill. Since its just an R&D facility its a lot of one off parts so we dont have a big shop.

**Sorry for the Thread Hijack.

[Archimedes]

I've been dying to draw up my plans for building a vision cage system for my girls. I'm accustomed to Vectorworks, but I was using it on a student license that has since expired, and my old laptop can't handle the 30-day trial for the new versions.

That being said, if anyone would like to donate a set of plans to be for BP cages, hugely appreciated, lol! I don't wanna buy more materials than I need, but drawing up plans has been a huge barrier to actually budgeting out the materials.

[jclaiborne]

I've been dying to draw up my plans for building a vision cage system for my girls. I'm accustomed to Vectorworks, but I was using it on a student license that has since expired, and my old laptop can't handle the 30-day trial for the new versions.

That being said, if anyone would like to donate a set of plans to be for BP cages, hugely appreciated, lol! I don't wanna buy more materials than I need, but drawing up plans has been a huge barrier to actually budgeting out the materials.

Buying more materials or not enough was why I started drawing them up on SolidWorks. The cage I am doing right now is a 4x2x2 for my beardie that will have internal light fixtures. I don't know if most people will want to shell out the money for the extruded aluminum that I am using though.

[OhhWatALoser]

old picture, but not much changed

carpets:


dragon cages went through a few different designs

[chilliscale]

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Oh wow thats large, is there a certain way the wood needs to be treated?[/QUOTE]

3 coats of stain and I applied 6 coats of poly. When you are holding around 80% humidity and 6" of moist substrate you can never be too safe

[StaticLowLife]

old picture, but not much changed

carpets:


dragon cages went through a few different designs

Wow im extremely Jelous......

3 coats of stain and I applied 6 coats of poly. When you are holding around 80% humidity and 6" of moist substrate you can never be too safe

lol oh ok i was wondering what finish and or chemicals would be safe to keep a snake in