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Rectal Placenta
Feb 25, 2011
Are you going to go try and fit splines over all of those points? I use Solidworks daily and that picture made me shudder.

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Rectal Placenta
Feb 25, 2011
Yeah, rebuilding a casting in CAD is always a hoot

Rectal Placenta
Feb 25, 2011
Using the NADCA design guide charts for draft and fillet size can make things a bit easier too, even though die casting requirements aren't always the same as sand casting. You can probably just add like 1.5-2 deg of draft and make the fillet radius the same as the wall thickness and be done with it.

This is also super rad and I wish I had access to nice scanning equipment.

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