Surgical Blade Design
Surgical Blade Design
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Im having trouble designing this surgical blade to the specified dimensions. I tried importing the picture as a shetch and tracing the profile of the blade, but the image is 4:1 scale, so when I apply the correct dimensions the sketch blows up. Please advise.
I have another file that details the dimensions of the slot.
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I have another file that details the dimensions of the slot.
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RE: Surgical Blade Design
RE: Surgical Blade Design
You should be able to get close enough eyeballing it.
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Anna Wood
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RE: Surgical Blade Design
RE: Surgical Blade Design
RE: Surgical Blade Design
Diego
RE: Surgical Blade Design
Draw a horizontal construction line 40.96mm long (O?A length of blade)
Draw vertical construction lines at each end of the horiz line to create an H
Go to Insert > Sketch Picture and select the blade_template.png image
Re-size, rotate and move the image to fit within the H (Close-cropping the image beforehand will make this easier)
Trace and dimension the outline
The slot can be drawn and placed accurately from the given dimensions
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RE: Surgical Blade Design
RE: Surgical Blade Design
How is this better than scaling the image to start?
RE: Surgical Blade Design
Rather than do it that way round, I think scaling the part he has already drawn would save the extra work of scaling the drawing (and therefore possibly adding further inaccuracy?) then re-doing the tracing part of the task.
Not necessarily better, but possibly, and just another suggestion.
RE: Surgical Blade Design
Thanks, all!
RE: Surgical Blade Design
It sounds like you are trying to manufacture a blade by reverse engineering it from a competitor's brochure. Are you trying to do this or something like it?
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