Metric Tap Follower
Added 2020-08-24 15:43:23 +0000 UTCHey Patrons! I had a request for a metric version of the Tap Follower drawing. I've never tried converting my designs to metric in Fusion 360, but I thought I'd give it a shot. This is just a straight "click the mm button" conversion. I haven't gone through and made everything nice round numbers (which is hard to do without risk of messing up tolerances, which means I need to build it again from that new drawing to make sure it's okay).
In any case, the drawing is attached here and it is in the Patron shared drive (which I post a link to here once a month). I don't know if this will be a regular thing, nor do I know how useful these metric drawings are for people. Your comments are welcome! As with all my drawings, these are far from being actual engineering drawings. They are hobbyist plans, basically. For what it's worth, they are always the drawings I used to make the projects you see, but don't expect too much from them. π
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Thought Iβd revive this thread a bit. Being a newbie to the world of drawings, cad, and measuring, I decided to learn Fusion 360. Thing I learned tonight, is that I can upload your 360 models, rejig them as drawings, and automatically it will change all measurements to metric. No doubt there are other ways, or even easier ways to do this, but since my experience of this new fangled computer stuff is measured in mere hours of experience, not even days, Iβm reasonably chuffed.
Maureen Bruce
2021-01-30 18:03:57 +0000 UTCNew member and loving going through all the Vids and posts. Generally things in Australia are 90% metric so would love to see some metric diagrams. The little conversion app on my phone is getting a smashing!! Cheers π
Brad Stray
2021-01-22 00:21:52 +0000 UTCYes please, more metric! I live in Europe and other than the steam model engine crowd from the UK, everything else here is in Metric. Has been for decades. I even own a British Jaguar Car, twenty years old, and every last bit on it is metric!
Jeroen Dorrestein
2020-08-31 09:59:44 +0000 UTCYah, I really need to do more advanced stuff in Fusion, like parameters. My Fusion skill level is very modest at the moment.
Blondihacks
2020-08-27 17:59:49 +0000 UTCThanks a metric-ton for all the effort! My solar powered calculator has a hard time doing all that math in the dark basement :P As a side note on doing the conversions, have you looked at using parameters in Fusion360? Once you start using them, fiddling with your part's dimensions becomes way easier.
Andre Du Plessis
2020-08-27 04:43:30 +0000 UTCYay, metric! I just watched your video on choosing an asian import lathe a bit ago, and will definitely be pondering going for the "hard" option (within the states) and going all-metric. Of course, I'm not buying anything just now, but... I love that you're making metric plans, even if they're just simple conversions for now!
David Lindes
2020-08-27 00:12:26 +0000 UTCAs someone who's sense of humour is derived almost entirely from 1990s Simpsons, I appreciated this reference. :)
Blondihacks
2020-08-26 16:14:43 +0000 UTCis that better than my 1 Gallon to a Lampost?
Jon Lloyd
2020-08-26 03:01:40 +0000 UTCThe metic system is the tool of the devil. My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it.
HobbyEtc.com
2020-08-25 23:48:33 +0000 UTCBut it answered a couple of aspects for me. Yes Fusion 360 does allow that to be done by a straight out conversion to mm and that the pdf was generated within F360 (yes - noob). Always expected to have to round off some dimensions (though not entirely necessary) and also work out the fit as I will be using a metric reamer. Either way - huge thanks. :)
Jon Lloyd
2020-08-25 06:08:45 +0000 UTCIt may not have been clear from my original post, but I can't make them whole numbers without remodeling the parts. If you just round all the dimensions, you're throwing away significant digits that existed in the Imperial version, and you're potentially messing up tolerances. It's more non-trivial than it seems. By letting Fusion do the straight-to-mm conversion and leaving the decimals there, at least the user can see what the dimensions should be, and make their own decisions about where it should be okay to round up or down.
Blondihacks
2020-08-24 22:43:26 +0000 UTCJust one man's opinion; I would have rounded out the measurements to the nearest mm. It would simplify everything. Having lived in Europe for 25 years, I became an ardent lover of the metric system! So much easier than inches!!! I miss it terribly.
Conrad Firestein
2020-08-24 22:30:58 +0000 UTCOh, poop, sorry, I forgot about the threads. That's a lot more work to convert, because I actually have to make the holes different sizes and assign them different thread profiles in Fusion. Doing proper metric drawings will be much more work than I hoped.
Blondihacks
2020-08-24 20:16:22 +0000 UTC"Metric" and a 7/16-20 thread, sheesh :) Regular M10 (M10x1.5) might do the trick, or the fine-threaded M10x1.0. But don't listen to me, check it out yourself (I haven't).
Christoph Moench-Tegeder
2020-08-24 19:53:13 +0000 UTC
