The 3D design was followed by months of doing nothing 😩 until I realized that this would go nowhere without starting. So I found myself sitting down each evening and work on some mock-ups. Even if it was only for one or two hours. At some point would my kids show up and ask questions or hand me tools. Who would have guessed.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/3866481694976076807.jpg)
It payed off that I went with mock-ups first. Even with a rough 3D model I run into several small issues that had to be corrected.
For the Mock-Up I had to export my 3D model somehow first. After messing with various online converters, that all failed to produce a usable result from exported OBJ
files I eventually found out that Wings3D
has an export to STL
built in. Man did I feel stupid. From there I imported the STL
into Inkscape
and added various A4
papers to the scene to print everything and tape it together. This was the first time that I got an actual idea of the dimensions and wondered what I did get myself into.
![](https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/3160721694976088694.jpg)
Originally posted at https://simpit.dev/version-2/mock-up/
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