Members vcnyls Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 Ability to use standard, off the shelf humbuckers. I like the maple and rosewood or the rosewood and ebony necks best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kit_strong Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 I have a question for everyone.. Which is more important to you: The ability to use standard, off-the-shelf replacement humbuckers, or the ability to adjust pickup height wihtout removing the top? Off the shelf humbuckers. Unless of course I can specify my pickups at build time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 Off the shelf humbuckers. Unless of course I can specify my pickups at build time Of course you could. In fact, I'd be open to you sending me whatever you wanted in it so I don't end up charging people too much for components. I'd even be willing to offer it with no pickups if someone wanted to do that work for themselves and save some bucks. FYI, my plan is to install BG pups as stockers. Why start a guitar off with cheap crap? Just get the good stuff and go with it. I hope someday to keep Bryan a very busy man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 To-do List Update Getting there! The neck is in the process of being cut out of a big block of plastic right now. Not sure when, but I should ave that in hand soon. Can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members atrox Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 I have a Gibby LP in C4D. Not sure how accurate and exact the TOM is on it though. I can put it up on my site here http://bmlrock.com/MCG/3d/ PS: Give it till about 7:45 EST to upload Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 10, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 I can't pull in a C4D file.. Do you have any export options? IGES would be awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members atrox Posted August 10, 2011 Members Share Posted August 10, 2011 I can't pull in a C4D file.. Do you have any export options? IGES would be awesome. I also put up a OBJ file with it. That should work. If not, I'll have to check it later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Nope, Solidworks doesn't speak Max either. Those modelers are more freeform and artistic, where Solidworks is very rigid and mechanical. First thing SW is going to do if it opens those files is figure out all the steps used to make the model and reverse engineer it into a parametric tree of commands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members atrox Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 what formats can you take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 iges, step, sldprt, dxf, acis, wrl, stl, inventor, catia, pro-e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ihavenofish Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Nope, Solidworks doesn't speak Max either. Those modelers are more freeform and artistic, where Solidworks is very rigid and mechanical. First thing SW is going to do if it opens those files is figure out all the steps used to make the model and reverse engineer it into a parametric tree of commands. obj isnt max, its alias. best bet for transfering polygonal models is stl. and by best i mean "least crap". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members atrox Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 obj isnt max, its alias. best bet for transfering polygonal models is stl. and by best i mean "least crap". OBJ is pretty much universal for all 3D apps. That is why i assumed it would work. I can do STL. I am uploading now for you to test in the same directory. again, this is not a clean model. I forget where i got it, but it looks pretty accurate aesthetically. Its the whole guitar, so you'll be deleting some poly's as I'm assuming the export probably combined all the layers. Let me know if that is a huge pain and I'll try to just get the bridge only in a file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Awesome, thank you very much =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members atrox Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 OK, I went and just put the TOM up without the guitar as well. TOM.stl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Well, I got it in as a "graphics body", which means it's a picture of a 3D model that you can flip around and look at. Unfortunately, you can't touch them in any way. SW told me it had too many faces to come in as a solid or a surface. Bummer, cuz this model looks really detailed. Any chance you can export just the bridge and maybe the tuners? If not, I understand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 OK, I went and just put the TOM up without the guitar as well. TOM.stl lol, you rock so hard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Bummer, same thing. Too many faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members atrox Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Bummer, same thing. Too many faces. Damn. here is what I can export out of C4D as... .3ds.xml.bullet.dae.x.dxf.fbx.rib.wrl.stl.obj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Only stl and wrl work with SW, and I've already converted it to a wrl. SW pukes over that one too. It's ok though, because I can use the tom.stl for a visual reference and get a model that's close enough for my purposes. I'm not cutting that, so close enough is fine. I appreciate you trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 After watching Atrox and I try to find a common format, a very kind dude decided to help me out with a bridge model that was native to Solidworks. Thanks Jeff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members atrox Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 After watching Atrox and I try to find a common format, a very kind dude decided to help me out with a bridge model that was native to Solidworks. Thanks Jeff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ugameus Posted August 11, 2011 Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 I have a question for everyone.. Which is more important to you: The ability to use standard, off-the-shelf replacement humbuckers, or the ability to adjust pickup height wihtout removing the top? It depends on how easy it is to take off the top. However, you shouldn't need to change the pups if you can get Bryan to custom wind what the customer wants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 11, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 11, 2011 Unique, custom wound pickups for each customer as part of the purchase? Interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RaVenCAD Posted August 12, 2011 Author Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 To-do List Update Ok, thanks for reading all this crap and for sticking with me all this time. Rock on boys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MahaloVision Posted August 12, 2011 Members Share Posted August 12, 2011 What's your question on #4 (the truss rod channel)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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