Paul,

  Do you happen to have drawings that  we can download of the 13b
  (late model) that show all the major dimensions and the hole
  locations.  It would really speed up our process to get ours
  mounted.  We are designing our motor mount based on all the great
  info on your site.  I would love it if when we are done you would
  give it a look-see to see what you think, if it's not too much to ask.

  thanks

  Lionel

  P.S.  We are working in solid works because it's what we have
Here are the zip files.

  Paul Lamar


  Do you have these same drawings in a file type
  I can open with my Mac?  Thanks.

  Gene Kahn

  I think you are talking about the .STP or perhaps the .IGES files.
  First you need some sort of 3D program.

  IMHO Rhino is the best bang for the buck but I don't think
  it runs on the Mac. Solid Works is good but very expensive
  and I don't think that runs on the Mac either.

  Autodesk but it is expensive at $4000.
  http://www.pure-mac.com/cad.html
  http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=14437167&siteID=123112
 <http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=14437167&siteID=123112>

  It might be cheaper to buy a $250 computer from Fry's and
  get free Linux and then run one of six Linux programs.

  http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090607033315929/CAD.html

  See the attached png for the list. I have QCad and it works
  well. Not as well as Rhino but pretty good.

  Paul Lamar

 Sweet link there Paul.  I bought the commercial version of Qcad a while
 ago after using the community edition.  I figured that was the least I
 could do to help support their Linux work.  I had no problems with the
 community edition except that it needed to be patched to compile on a 64
 bit platform.  I don't know if the commercial version will run under 64
 bits because I haven't tried it.

 Mark LaPierre




Lionel  I will attempt to steer this discussion back to the original
question by attaching some drawings you can open in windows, no CAD
needed.  I can't view what I am attaching in G-mail so I am going by
likely sounding file names. You can use the drawing or a picture  as a
background image to draw the shape and these dimensions to accurately
enter bolt locations. I don't have a set of scaled 3D parts for stock
housings, I had them but converted them into housings of two piece
construction with a lot of small changes and extra bolts. There is an
accurate 3D of an assembled  stock short block but it has no accessories
or manifolds which I got off the newsletter. The CAD models have no
dimensions  because they are drawn to scale and any dimensions can be
measured using object snaps in CAD.  If I am close to what you are after
I may have a few more similar files.

george grimes

I think he wants to load them in Solid Works George.
SW won't take jpgs or bmp's as native dwg files:)

Yes they can be background bit maps and can be scaled
in Rhino and maybe Solid Works. I don't have SW.

BTW George get yourself a graphics program that can
convert bmp's to jpg's. BMP's are too big to publish
and I have to convert them. I think Windoze paint
can do it.

Paul Lamar