News Excavator templates

[petit]

HI, new here,

I wondered if anyone have heard where to find excavator templates like bobcats jcb case models.
Spent a lot on the inernet and found nothing....

Tks

 

[JimmyG]

I have most always made templates job by job on this type equipment....take pictures straight on to the sides and include a ruler to scale by....camera easels help to prevent skewing the object out of scale.

 

[petit]

By camera easels you mean tripod...Yes?
Sure that's an idea but it'll take years to list models and the final work will be approximate.
tks

 

[Fuel Media]

www.the-blueprints.com

 

[S'N'S]

I have done excavators, bobcats, bull dozers, graders etc and usually go on site and take pictures, measure everything and find out exactly what model the unit is.
I had a grader and bulldozer (2 different owners) that both had later model graphics and as they were getting painted the owners wanted the original back on. A bit of research on the net found them. They usually are very basic and straight forward, because they are work horses the manufacturers keep the graphics to a minimum and basic.

 

[petit]

I have done excavators, bobcats, bull dozers, graders etc and usually go on site and take pictures, measure everything and find out exactly what model the unit is.
I had a grader and bulldozer (2 different owners) that both had later model graphics and as they were getting painted the owners wanted the original back on. A bit of research on the net found them. They usually are very basic and straight forward, because they are work horses the manufacturers keep the graphics to a minimum and basic.

www.the-blueprints.com

Yes blueprints site with scales and personal research could make the deal...
Tks

 

[bob]

By camera easels you mean tripod...Yes?
Sure that's an idea but it'll take years to list models and the final work will be approximate.
tks

A photo with a horizontal and vertical scale is necessarily more accurate that a line drawing. The latter is merely a map while the former is the territory.

I've been snapping pictures of things using a framing square taped to the subject for years. Any images and lettering I've made and applied based on these photos have never been off more than a small fraction of an inch, if at all. Certainly never enough to matter to anyone but the terminally pedantic. Can the same be said for a line drawing that's at least once removed from the subject?

 

[petit]

A photo with a horizontal and vertical scale is necessarily more accurate that a line drawing. The latter is merely a map while the former is the territory.

I've been snapping pictures of things using a framing square taped to the subject for years. Any images and lettering I've made and applied based on these photos have never been off more than a small fraction of an inch, if at all. Certainly never enough to matter to anyone but the terminally pedantic. Can the same be said for a line drawing that's at least once removed from the subject?

Actualy i first thought doing the job this way but the difficulty of finding and photographing each model dissuades me.
Tks

 

[WB]

Been there done that. best thing to do is to go get your own measurements and pictures.

 

[Behrmon]

Also companies like Cat will often have pdf files on their web site that contain usable vector schematics, I’ve scored more than a couple this way, you just have to dig a little, no pun intended.