Building off of Bill's comments, most "good" machine shops will take your file without any hesitation. If you can't find one that will then try my guy at:
Harry "HL" Langley marsurl...@comcast.net (410) 326-2001 Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Jan 4, 2016 4:41 AM, "S Thomas via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > To any lister with AutoCAD experience: > The plate holding the cable idler sheaves that bolts to the bottom of the > Edson steering pedestal on my recent C&C36 purchase has almost completely > disintegrated. I downloaded a .dwg drawing of the assembly from the Edson > web page and installed a version of Autodesk Trueview (2014) that is > compatible with XP, but I cannot get it to print (plot) anything other than > an empty rectangle. I have been poking at it quite a bit and got exactly > nowhere. I have no experience with AutoCAD, and find the user interface > tools less than intuitive. About like my first experience with vi in Unix, > only less productive. Any fiddling with layer colours, and the layout tab > disappears completely. Is there a simple way to print from either the model > or the layout tabs in the file as downloaded? All I have been able to get > in the print preview is a line rectangle the outlines the page, and sure > enough, that is all that prints. The help files have not been helpful in > printing, but at least I can pan, zoom, and take measurements between > points. > > Edson lists a price for the entire assembly, but the sheaves appear to be > ok, and the Edson price (US$ 360) is pretty high for what I think that I > actually need. I would rather just make a mounting plate if I > can't purchase one for a reasonable price. > > Steve Thomas > C&C36 MKI > Merritt Island, FL > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Gary Russell via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > *To:* C&C List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > *Cc:* Gary Russell <captnga...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Sunday, January 03, 2016 22:56 > *Subject:* Re: Stus-List C&C Nameplate > > Dennis, > Interesting idea. The file is the problem, however. > Gary > > ~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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