Macintosh 68060 Redux

[zigzagjoe]

Thanks! I took styling hints from the IIcx to the point where I was even measuring features with calipers. The "minor" lines on the front hide the primary vents, there are secondary vents in the vicinity of the picoPSU as well as the 060/cache board to draw air over the heatsink. I hadn't thought about setting up for an external floppy (actually, floppy never crossed my mind at all...), but I have plenty of space on the rear panel so I might do that...

 

[olePigeon]

@zigzagjoe What app do you use for modeling? I've often toyed with the idea of reproducing some of Frog Design's prototypes and making them into real products. There's a guy on YouTube who did that with Apple's really slick MessagePad/Phone combo unit. Another guy (same guy?) did it with the Apple //c prototype.

 

[zigzagjoe]

@zigzagjoe What app do you use for modeling? I've often toyed with the idea of reproducing some of Frog Design's prototypes and making them into real products. There's a guy on YouTube who did that with Apple's really slick MessagePad/Phone combo unit. Another guy (same guy?) did it with the Apple //c prototype.

Autodesk fusion. While I'm not in love with being in bed with autodesk, I learned autodesk inventor around 20 years ago and that's how my brain works when thinking about these things now. It's not the easiest thing to do aesthetically pleasing stuff in, I'd say, but great for engineering tasks.

 

[olePigeon]

Last time I used AutoDesk was AutoDesk R12 on Windows 3. I have free access to their online version through my education account, but I found it very confusing.

 

[Jockelill]

FreeCAD, https://www.freecad.org/, is otherwise open source and powerful. It is fully offline. Personally I also use Fusion 360, but I'm not super keen on the cloud based nature of it. Fusion is a lot more forgiving compared to FreeCAD (in Fusion sketches does not need to have all constraints fulfilled for instance).

Others have also used TInkercad with great success (never personally tried it).

 

[Phipli]

FreeCAD, https://www.freecad.org/, is otherwise open source and powerful. It is fully offline. Personally I also use Fusion 360, but I'm not super keen on the cloud based nature of it. Fusion is a lot more forgiving compared to FreeCAD (in Fusion sketches does not need to have all constraints fulfilled for instance).

Others have also used TInkercad with great success (never personally tried it).

Yeah, FreeCAD is a little odd if you're used to some of the commercial offerings, but is plenty good enough.

Make sure you get version 1.1 as it includes some good quality of life improvements. (Or newer if you read this in the future when later versions exist, unless newer versions get worse, in which case stick to 1.1).

I've been trying to develop my FreeCAD skills lately.