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rharriman
August 14th, 2008, 00:12
Other then TLT and Manufacturers sites do you guys get your purchase type parts. I have noticed some signaw boxes, ball joints and monoballs drawn in mostly solid works. I don't mind drawing purchasd parts and don't expect people to turn in fabricated parts because that is what makes custom custom.

I am looking for, or possible willing to create a site for "Univiersally" formated parts so that we can spend time doing what we enjoy and less time redrawing parts. Are there already too many sites out there and if so and they are for a sinlge platform, would people be willing to convert them to a neutral format and give them to me so that I could create a more universal library. I will make a poll to see it this is a waste of time or not but I think I can get some support here.

I use inventor and at cbliss (http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/index.htm) website there are tons of files but you need inventor. I would be willing to recreate a similar library for these types of files in a neutral format if those in other platforms were willing to do the same for me.

Chime in and let me know what you think.

rharriman
August 14th, 2008, 00:34
Ok I give up, I am pretty computer savy but CAN NOT figure out how the (*&^ to make a poll. I so much prefer phpbb to vBulletin but vBulletin does have WAY more options and controls.

Any Help??

stuckthrottle
August 14th, 2008, 07:53
http://race-dezert.com/forum/faq.php?faq=vb3_reading_posting#faq_vb3_polls

rharriman
August 14th, 2008, 08:20
Yea, I read that prior to asking the question I dont see a place to check a box for poll creation. Either I am missing something or something in my settings is not allowing me to create polls.

DUMP!
August 14th, 2008, 10:21
You and Jesse need to get together. He already has started something like you discribe check is signature line http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/member.php?u=1518Dump

rharriman
August 14th, 2008, 15:26
Yea, definately, I have seen some of the stuff on his site guess we need to decide who should put it all together. I would like to automate the posting and have thumbnails to look at to aid in selection. Simialr to this site. (http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/Hardware/index.htm) The big difference is it will be non platform specific. What do you use Jesse? And is it possible to use thumbnails with your application?