GS1000 Crank Cad Drawing

[gsrick]

It was, but I was hoping anyone would chime in.

I went to school to give me a new career path 20 years ago, but the only jobs in central FL were architecture(not really well paying, but abundant) and power companies(boring). I took a well paying job offer with a small family run aluminum railing company that was a 45 minute to an hour drive one way. I got bored with it fairly quickly(still architecture). I already had a job with special needs children for the last 10 years and decided to stick with that for another 15 years. I don't regret my decision as that was a fulfilling job, but I wonder where I may have been financially if I had went in a different direction.

If I lived somewhere else it may have been a different story. I wanted to work on prototype and custom items for the automotive aftermarket, but it seemed as the majority of that work was in Cali and my wife had no interest to move away from her family. Now that I'm into bikes, designing parts for them may be a way to do something on my own. I have a neighbor that has a CNC business. So it may be something to look into. Maybe some custom parts for vintage bikes similar to what can be found for late model bikes.

I just took a look at your portfolio. That's what I'm talking about. Very nice work.

[gsrick]

I also see you fixed your animation. Looks awesome. There could be money to be made in technical illustration.

[Dogma]

We were taught at MMI to draw in actual measurements, because everything we did were destined to be blueprints printed to scale with all the measurements for the production of whatever discipline it addressed. I really enjoyed going there, we had to do manual board drawings and CAD drawings. It rotated, three weeks on the boards and three weeks on the computer. It got to the point on the computer that everything mechanical, I'd do in solids to pull all my measurements and views.

Mind if I ask what you use CAD for?

My day job is designing fixtures for CNC mills. Mostly 4 and 5 axis verticals. I generally use SW for all my hobby work on the 3D printer too. It's fun designing for a different manufacturing process and experimenting with other kinds of modeling.

[sharpy]

Thanks Dogma and gsrick, im getting closer to retirement so any extra dollars be nice . But we all say that.