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Every submarine needs a dock and the Mechanical fish sub is no different. In fact this dock will be as imaginative as the fish itself. The mechanical fish and dock use just about every trick in the book. As always, the vectors were first. Everything except the letters were created in EnRoute

I jumped the gun on my last entry forgetting to first post the creation of the wing fins and the motor on each end. I used two functions in EnRoute to create the files…  sweep two rails and the revolve functions. As always I started with the vectors, created in EnRoute

The thing I love most about our MultiCam is that I can set it up to run in a few minutes and then go away and do something else while the machine turns out the most wonderful pieces and do it more accurately and faster than I ever could. Today I tool pathed the fish submarine and then worked on other things and even took a little time off and visited some friends. When I poked into the shop the pieces were cut perfectly and ready for gluing. I couldn’t resist mixing up a little five minute epoxy and putting it together

In between all of the paying and house projects I’ve managed to squeeze in a few minutes here and there to work on the mechanical fish challenge project as well. Although the end of summer is still a ways off I’ve learned to push on the front end to avoid all nighters at the back end. I suspect my ‘competition’ has yet to learn that. 🙂 Rather than use a high end 3D program I love to build complex files using EnRoute. With a little planning and some creative use of the available functions some pretty cool stuff can be imagined and then built