Just delivered my new Bridgeport mill!

[Speedster]

The only thing more exciting than the delivery of a new machine tool is the pending release of KeyShot 4.1!  My Bridgeport knee mill, modeled in SolidWorks, tweaked "Industrial" HDR in KS Edit.  No post.  Backplate at my friend Joe Martin's new manufacturing plant for Sherline Products.
Bill G

[tsunami]

Very nice!!!i like it,and i worked on that bridgeport for 5 years on my life..was great..!!!
BTW is a great render..

[NDenekamp]

Very impressive model!  Are you trying to make it look like the delivery already took place?

I don't know how big it is, but get a sense that the scale it a bit off. At least the main table seems to be leaning to the right compared the roller gate behind it on the backplate.

What will you use the mill for?

N

[Speedster]

Good catch on the perspective!  It is a bit odd when you have to point towards a corner.  I'll fix it.  Yep, showing it as new- should have put it on a pallet, but it's primarily for my TurboSquid page, which I'm posting today.  Actually, I modeled it on my own machine, which I purchased new way back in 1976.  Still looks almost new, because I take care of my machines, as they have taken care of me.  Sounds like a biblical quote!  I have a full machine shop that supports my design work, as I was (am) a prototype model maker- this is our 40th year in business.  Starting to feel it!
Bill G

[NDenekamp]

Hey Bill,

They are machines designed to outlive you, a thing thats getting increasingly rare these days.. They command respect and care.

As for the perspective. perhaps if you line up the ground grid with the lines of the floor slabs, and then use the move model tool to rotate the whole mill slightly?

[Ed]

Gotta love Sherline Products.  I use a couple of their CNC rotary tables on my home-brew table-top CNC mills.

Ed

[guest84672]

This looks great!

[Speedster]

As for the perspective. perhaps if you line up the ground grid with the lines of the floor slabs, and then use the move model tool to rotate the whole mill slightly?

I've always used Ground Grid, but it's really funky in 4.1.20, which I reported to the Luxion team and hopefully it will be fixed in 4.1.  See below- it's so tight you can't see through it, and even worse when it's flatter.  Editing "Model Units" has no effect.

My favorite lathe is a small, fully tooled, 7x18 Potter Instrument Lathe, made in 1907.  Same year my mom was born- I was her mid-life crisis!  Leather belt drive, capable of .0001 all day long.  That's one thing I love about my work in Industrial Archeology- they really made great stuff back then, with master craftsmanship at the forefront.

Sherline Products is wholly owned by the Joe Martin Foundation for Exceptional Craftsmanship.  There is a large physical museum in their facility, and an even larger on-line museum.  For a mind-blowing experience visit www.CraftsmanshipMuseum.com!  I'm proud to serve on the Advisory Board, and have some work there as well.

Bill G

[NDenekamp]

Damm thats a dense grid  I can see how that's making it difficult to line up.

But perhaps my suggesting might still help a little. if you try to line up the boundaries of the dense grid parallel to the walls of the building, and after that rotate the whole model of the mill in relation to the ground grid / world axis.

I will definitely have a look through the craftsmanship museum. Sounds very interesting!

N

[edwardo]

I take care of my machines, as they have taken care of me

If the bible was full of sensible quotes like that I would read it! never a truer word spoken my good man. I seriously look after my Japanese chisels, they're so much more rewarding than my kids. 

nice modelling