On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > Has anyone used a 3D printer to make a case for their old machine ? I've > started drafting an SGI Indy "skin" in Sketch, but it's just a box right > now, nothing cool.
Not an actual old machine, but I did a mini-blinkenlights replica of an HP-2100 system that has an Odroid-C1 in one of the boxes and uses simH to emulate HP Access (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebikes/22213398140). Each box was bigger than my printer (Makerbot Rep2), so had to be built in pieces and assembled using thermoplastic inserts. There's also a black 3d printed light tunnel inside to keep the lights from leaking to the adjacent lights. This design was done using OpenSCAD (http://www.openscad.org). For almost all of my designs these days, I use Onshape (https://cad.onshape.com). Both have their uses. Onshape has a learning curve, but is extremely powerful. Mike