Comment on Any tips for designing a fitting part for the golf 6 dashboard
j4k3@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Just take pictures. I use FreeCAD. You just add the picture to whatever plane. I usually put a small precision ruler in the image. Then there is a scaling tool. You pick two points in the imported image and it scales the size of the image so that you can easily create sketches that follow the contours.
Don't print big stuff blind. Copy your designed part, then do a couple quick slices so that you only print a tiny unit test to check the fit of critical areas.
Having a set of printed radius gauges helps to measure. GL
EtzBetz@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Hmm that sounds like a good way to do, I’ll need to take a look at it.
I did slice it to be only the very bottom part of the print to do a test fit. All tests I did before were only slices of the area :)