Plate Steel Bumper Build Measurement Help
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Plate Steel Bumper Build Measurement Help
Hey, I am currently building a steel plate bumper in my machines shop class at school. I did a cardboard mock up but it just doesn't seem right. Does anyone have a cad file or a dfx/dwg file that they could send me? We have a cnc plasma cutter so with any cad file I can plug it in and auto cut out the pieces. Please don't refer me to google, I have tried many different links off of google with no success and this is kinda my last hope to get a file. Even a picture of exact blueprints would help a ton. Just having trouble getting all the measurements together! Thanks and I really appreciate any help!
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Its not for school, not for a grade or anything. I am doing it in school because I dont have any other place to work. And my teacher said to search around to find some blueprints we could use on our cnc plasma cutter. Really just need something straightforward.
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If you're designing this thing using AutoCAD.. using someone else's file is cheating. You're not going to learn anything if you don't try to figure it out.
Take measurements for the vehicle you are putting it on, cut cardboard and get an idea.. you can tweak it later in autocad to make it symmetrical and straight.
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I doubt you're going to find someone that will just freely give you the design file for a custom bumper they made. I know I wouldn't without charging you for it. If you search for threads on custom bumpers here, you may find enough pics of one to go off of, but it probably won't include the critical measurements.
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I doubt you're going to find someone that will just freely give you the design file for a custom bumper they made. I know I wouldn't without charging you for it. If you search for threads on custom bumpers here, you may find enough pics of one to go off of, but it probably won't include the critical measurements.
"2015 Ranger XLT"
LOL OK - probably is trying to make money off of it
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I doubt you're going to find someone that will just freely give you the design file for a custom bumper they made. I know I wouldn't without charging you for it. If you search for threads on custom bumpers here, you may find enough pics of one to go off of, but it probably won't include the critical measurements.
I am an engineer and I have many "cookie cutter" files in cad that I use in various projects, but I would never freely share this with someone else outside of my company.
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