Part 1/2: CAD Drawings
Started the CAD drawings; however, so far, I only have the idea for the walls and unfortunately… I don’t think the locking mechanism is what I had in mind :( Every time I’ve drafted a ‘sliding and locking’ (basically it slides and locks into place so it doesn’t move up), after 30 minutes I look at it again and realize it won’t work as I’d like it to… so I turned to a few friends to ask their opinions.
I got the response that Idea 1 would work way better than 2 (2 was scrapped because I realized it wouldn’t lock) then I looked and revised 1.
However, a friend suggested I do an elongated dove tail joint.
So, I’ll try a CAD of both (if I have time) and see if which works better. So far, I still have to add measurements, revise the ideas, revise the whole drawing (sobs).. etc.
I’m very grateful for you guys helping me out with the ideas, thank you! I’ve learned a lot more about joints than I knew before!! (The fully black joint that has only a bit of red in the drawing is the newly revised idea1).
Short journal now yes, but part 2 hopefully will have a loooot more details.