Am Tinkercad’ing a mouting plate for a Sanden 508. Is going onto a stock ‘85 factory bracket. Being a total Tinkercad newb, 2 “how to” YouTubes were required to dive in.
Compressor dimensions were found online.
Default mode in Tinkercad renders cylinders with obvious facets. There’s a hack to smooth them out. See vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVQBZArIt34&t=11s . Cylinder in pic is smoothed.
Files were saved as SVG in Tinker then brought into CloudConvert to convert them to EPS (format acceptable to SendCutSend.) This conversion renders only the outline of an object. 2D is all that’s needed for water or laser cutting. I’ve rendered in 3D to get a feel for how the program works. Plan is to use Tinker downstream for CNC’ing.
Have to be a commercial for SendCutSend as I found their entire show extremely well done. Online interface, material & finishing options, order process, turnaround, pricing, progress tracking, shipping… how often does a business put it all together! Cost for 3 parts = $64.91 shipping onboard. (Metals Depot---for just the raw aluminum shipped---was close to this.) Jury remains out on delivery and what their product actually looks like.