It would help if you volunteered to do this. I don't have the time and there
 are no CAD file standards as far as we have been able to discover even in DXF
 file format. Everybody seems to use a different CAD program.
  >>

I don't think, many of us here have much spare time. I work 7 days a week at
my job alone. I do plan to start(volunteer)
a Hotline ftp server for rotary engine info, when I get my cable modem
installed. I haven't thought of all the guide lines yet,
but I will probably require basic info in text format, text with
pictures(MSWORD), maybe PDF, Spreadsheet(EXCEL), CAD
in dxf, pictures in jpg, gif, etc. To a point, yes, there is no perfect cad
file standards, but if we can agree, in the real computing
world, most people use Microsoft Word(wordprocessing), Excel(spreadsheet).
With all the Free/low cost 2D/3D CAD programs
out there, on the net, we as a group can standardize to say one simple Cad,
Cad/Cam program for submitting your idea's to the
group so that wouldn't be a problem. People who work every day with dxf CAD
files from mulitude's of programs are use to this.
Yes, they may have to clean them up once in a while. At least they get 99.9%
of the info they need in the dxf file. When you get
just a Jpg, Gif of a drawing, a 1000+ members have to go through the work of
redrawing it into there own cad program. That's what
I mean, by focusing more on the problems here, save time, save money, save
reinventing the wheel. Why keep duplicating
what someone else has already done. That's where a database of info comes in
handy. We all have something we can contribute
here. But nobody knows who, what, where, when.
Rich Gillen

PS Maybe we should make up a questionare. Example below, please add your
idea's to this.
name
addrss
phone
fax
e-mail
Are you willing to help someone in your area
what plane you are building
what plane are you planning on building
what motor do you have
what motor do you plan on using
what electronics cad program do you use
what mech cad program do you use, 2D, 3D
what cnc program do you use
ocupation
expertise
hobbies
pilot
student pilot
thinking about it
etc., etc.

People are already helping each other.

We have these things already Rich on several sites. 
Dave Leonard http://members.aol.com/rotaryroster
 
Mark Wrathall has a site for good practices.
http://www.rotary.microcosman.com

Unless you have a lot of time to devote to the project I would not start.
No need for yet another site. But it is a free country. Have at it.
My priorities are solving installation problems on this news letter 
and building my plane. I spend over 12 hours a day doing just that.

BTW We also have a CD with pictures and drawings for the last three years
of the entire News Letter for $40. I am a bit slow sometimes getting this out.

Paul Lamar
 
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