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Hi Don. When I did a search some months back about your navigation cube problem, I couldn't find any answers. Sorry. But, what I have now managed to do is convert a rsdoc file into a sat file that can be imported into Solid Edge, and I should think, any other cad package. It's a bit long winded...

I think it's a watch makers lathe, a Pultra?

Today was another good day in the garden. I mowed the back lawn yesterday and cleared the weeds from one of the rose beds. I felt muscles being freed that had spent the winter in hybernation! Today I 90% cleared the second rose bed. Not enough stamina yet to do the whole thing after yesterday. I...

Thanks Steve. The NE. should have been clue enough for me! I didn't have my thinking head on. Greetings from Cornwall. The cornwall in the UK, not Canada.

I have created a lot of projects with DS5. I have 3D printed patterns and moulds for metal casting, and 3D printed four models of my 1930 Austin Seven car in one tenth scale. If all you want to do is export to an STL file, then in MHO, DS is hard to beat. It will, to some extent, import an STEP...

I hear it and I see it! Excellent! Thanks for the work done to post the video.

I don't know this engine, I am fairly new to model engineering, but that looks great! I love watching build threads, a chance to learn.

Hi Scott. I use the SE community edition, 2021. I found SE hard to get into, too used to more simple cad I suppose. One of the reasons I have been trying to find a way to export files from DS, is so that I could import them into a programme like SE. I have very few designs that I couldn't...

It seems that some of us are still having trouble seeing a video. I get sound, but no picture.

Cue Benny Hill music.😸😸😸

Still not getting video, just sound. I will try watching a video posted by someone else to make sure it's not me. Edit. I just ran a video about FreeCAD. Sound and video OK. Since posting the first half of this reply, your video has disappeared altogether.

I clicked on the video, and just got a black screen with the sound of an engine running. It sounded good, so it would be nice to see it.

I don't use DS with constraints enabled. Funny, it's the only cad programme I feel comfortable doing that with. I enabled constraints, restarted DS and couldn't find any polygon tool. How odd. I would miss not being able to draw nuts and bolts.

Hi Steve, welcome. You have your location as Lincoln, NE. Is that the Lincoln here in the UK, or a Lincoln somewhere else?

I've been trying to find a way to export DS5 files in a format that other cad programmes could read and edit. STL isn't really suitable for this, STEP seems to be the best option, but DS doesn't export STEP. Just as an experiment I exported a FreeCAD file as STEP and imported it into Solid Edge...

I am not keen about paying for a subscription. If you don't own it, you could lose it.

The oil supply pipe to the main bearings looks as though it is soft soldered. Will the engine oil get hot enough to melt the solder? The reason I ask is that I made a similar oil pipe for my 1930 Austin Seven car. I haven't run the engine yet. I discovered that soft solder and hot oil are a bad...

I was trying to find a way of exporting a file from Designspark that could be easily read in other cad programmes. One of the leads I found pointed to the RS website, so I followed it. It seems that the basic DS we use will remain free. It is called "Explorer". The next level of DS is "Creator"...

Apparently there is a programme in the Designspark folder that will do the job, it doesn't sound easy to use, but I haven't tried it. Another option is to use Fusion 360 to import an stl then export as a step file. I don't really know what a step file is, 2D, 3D? I have used Inkscape to design a...