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  w.wolf over 1 year ago

  You can use a digital caliper, a vernier caliper or a dial caliper (both non-digital) to take the dimensions, I have found this document for you ... as for orienting the object if you want to use another method, just put the part between four blocks of wood or something similar ...
  If you don't have a caliper, I recommend buying a cheap digital one, they're online for 15-25 dollars and I found no difference in the reading up to 10 cm with a 150 dollars one ...
  If something is still unclear, add a comment ...

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     mikeyc38 over 1 year ago

     w.wolf - what a very useful article! Thanks for putting on this thread!

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     w.wolf over 1 year ago

     Mikey, I'm glad you find it useful.

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  Terry Stonehocker over 1 year ago

  Hi Anoop, revers-engineering is a tricky thing...you first have to decide how accurate you want to be because that will determine the method of dimension gathering needed. If you need it to be very accurate then you will need a point cloud from one of many different measuring machines out there. This will give you accurate locations of all important features on the part.
  If you do not need it to be very precise yet still close then using a caliper, external micrometer for bosses, a internal micrometer for holes and a height-gage on a surface plate will do nicely.
  If you are doing a drawing for looks or concept but you want to be close and look to scale, then you can use pics and scale them to a know dimension. Then place them in a sketch and trace over the pic to create a profile to extrude. This method will get you a realistic scaled look of a part not necessarily an accurate part !

  Have Fun !

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     Aaron about 1 year ago

     Terry, you're saying a point cloud is more accurate than a measurement taken with a micrometer?

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     Terry Stonehocker about 1 year ago

     No Aaron, what I said is when you create a point cloud from a CMM it is extremely accurate and is used when you need accurate dimensions from a complicated part that when using (a caliper, external micrometer, internal micrometer and a height-gage on a surface plate) would be difficult to do.

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     Aaron about 1 year ago

     Gotcha

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     William over 1 year ago

     Hi Terry another bit of good advise as to the pics and scaling them to the dimensions and tracing. I would never have though of that, what a great idea thank you.

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     Terry Stonehocker over 1 year ago

     Hi William yes in SW you can insert a sketch picture into a sketch and scale it rotate it to get the desired position you want then create your lines and arcs for the sketch.
     It works great.

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     Anoop Peshkar over 1 year ago

     Thank you very much terry, i want it to be close so i will try wil callipers. to enhance my sw skills i wil also try with some pictures

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  William over 1 year ago

  Thank you Terry and great to see someone like your will the skills you posses back on GrabCAD sharing and passing on your knowledge with us all....
  :)
  Education is a hard process but with you guys, you make it so much fun that you want to learn more and more each day.

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  William over 1 year ago

  I have just started to do the same for my school work Anoop and I have bough my self digital callipers are a must and maybe protractor.

  http://www.stockcarracing.com/techarticles/scrp_0708_precision_measuring_tools/photo_01.html
  go there and have a little look.
  I hope this is what you wanted and helped?

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     Anoop Peshkar over 1 year ago

     Thanks william for the link, its very helpful. But how to orient my part to get the dimension of the circular feature and the location of the same

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  ALI over 1 year ago

  you can use designworks (solidworks) with arm or scanner, then your work will be very easy but you have to pay more :)

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     w.wolf over 1 year ago

     HaHaHa, nice Ali, few thousands more ...

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  e19 over 1 year ago

  you can trace a cam if you know the the displacement of rocker arm and timing why even reverse engineer it.