Mr_Burns

Perfect, nice work!

Hasnt this been asked and told repeatedly its a Steam issue, they dont do pre-order?

Your garage looks high enough, the door is the problem! Sounds like a good idea to have the roof removed, wouldn’t want all the avionics outside when finished. is the plan to enclose it then? Did the sim originally have a roof and walls, windows??

Wow what a difference, looks good! why are the frames different around where the door would be (one tube one bar, egress assistance?

Just a note on that file, I printed the first one to test it and it might be flex or my poor design but the screen easily slides in the top but not at the bottom so I will need to cut some off it. Also, its nice and sturdy, but used a 3/4 full vat of resin just for the left MFD, part 1 of 4, might be able to hollow it but I think the weight will hold it as a free supported desktop. I also added some steps to glue them together but still need to put holes in for the usb and power cables from the MFD and Screen. Small update here but note its NOT got holes for usb and I have NOT increased the gap for the screen to slide in. Cheap screen I have is a BNZTRUK USB 3 from ebay. RHGS for printing.stl Right MFD.stl LHGS for printing.stl Left MFD.stl

Wow, not seen anything like this since that member put a Tornado in his unused indoor pool, but then stopped posting. Will be an epic build, thank you for posting, will keep watching!

Hey I am working on this, I am very green to Fusion and 3d. My idea is to create this that a basic USB3 ebay monitor slides into, monitor I have is about 27cm by 19.5cm but thats irrelevent right now. Its printed in 4 parts but I am yet to join then for gluing but thought I would share my weekends work anyway, if anyone is interested and wants to improve or make changes, please share them. I thought I might be able to reduce the center 'gap' and make the screen capable of doing the right hand instruments but doubt that will work with the angle of the screen, also room for a small RWR and the screen for the F-16 UFC, maybe the right hand panel could fit a Frankenstein UFC in a workable position? But just something to add, Autodesk Fusion free. Thank you. Left Hand Glare Sheild v29.f3d

You might get better chance of response on the home cockpit thread. I don’t know the answer but wouldn’t it be almost as quick just to load the different bios each time in full, wiping the last one? Arent they dirt cheap? I bought a lot of them when I was making my F-18 and don’t recall them costing much? Will post you a few if you are in Australia, I know not everyone has the same budget.

I am new to fusion and any design program but have chosen fusion. Does anyone have a file which can import the Thrustmaster MFD dimensions, I know Sketch Up there used to be a library of pre-designed parts you could just import, wondering if this is possible in Fusion and if there is a repository somewhere of pre-designed parts? I can measure it myself and will have to rely on that if this function doesnt exist, could probably also cut it out of some of the already available 3D prints with the TM MFD incorporated but thought I would throw it out there on a quiet thread! TIA for any information.

I found this, it seems the UH-1 has a different part number to the 222 but its very similar, I think they confused it on Reddit so whilst its less likely to get an affordable 222 replica as there are probably fewer flight simmers (possibly only MSFS model it) DCS will have brought a lot more simmers for Huey but its probably more popular anyway due to its Vietnam heroism:

No I couldn’t, but that’s the top end, you might be able to find cheaper ones, maybe search a few pictures and see if the Huey is close enough, with the Huey DCS module there might be a DIY Huey page on this forum and the owner might help. There are others which is just the stick that plugs into a generic base, not sure I have ever seen one for Huey if that’s the closest stick. BTW, my son works at a Charity Home for Cerebral Palsy, I think they must have very serious condition as he has to bath, dress and feed his residents, they take them out to the beach and for ice cream and coffee depending on the weather but they certainly can’t play flight sims, if I come across anything than needs 3D printing and you have a certain joystick base I can try and help, I haven’t used my printer for anything yet as i am awaiting the space to make a fume extractor, didn’t realise how toxic resin printers are!

Hey mate, it seems to resemble the Huey stick from that angle, there is a Huey one here: https://www.maxflightstick.com/products/huey-2022

Did you make that large MFD controller yourself? I read win wing sell one but doesn’t seem to come up on their Australia sales.

Not 3D print related but a simple way I found to make a transparent gear handle was to use a hole saw drill bit without the middle drill guide and cut several clear acrylic circles. Glue them together, sand to diffuse then stained it with some dye in lacquer, drill to the middle to insert aluminium tube for motion and LED. Assume you can now get transparent 3D resin so it’s not needed to be this manual anymore!

I think the term is 3 women can’t make a baby in 3 months!

We landed at rovaniemi -25 and there were Hornets taxiing! Lapland Air Wing. Holiday I’m not ex mil.

I am far too young for that edit: removed rest, probably too much!

Sorry if this is obvious but you know that DCS can use the off state as an input so any on off on switch is 3 way? those 4 ways though, you might have to search for OEM parts. edit: sorry I see now from the picture and your explanation the cross, interesting it’s designed like that, before design to manufacture said change that design, we are not having our own mil-spec switches designed and manufactured!

Are they 4 position toggle switches rather that 4 pole? could you use some kind of 3D printed switch which bridges the 4 different positions to make a signal? maybe just a wheel on a lever that rolls over a micro switch to push it? not sure how much throw is needed, obviously this route is pretty agricultural but you could make is smaller have 2 micro switches each side.

Wow I really like this, great work. Were the tutorials you learned from on Open Hornets? I have made a few panels with code to CNC but never designed a PCB and then to size it with standoffs my head breaks as to how to this. Basically this means my abilities for panel design can only cater for inputs that screw into a plate, I am going to need to use PCB mounted switches to make some panels I need mounted to a screen.

Thank you for the reply, MDF is a nightmare to paint and agree it’s heavy! I am happy with ply. Thanks again, happy flying.

Hey Snakedoc, I noticed where you bought the plans are now shipping kits also, but I think with freight to Australia it would be more beneficial for me to buy the plans and find a cutter locally as you did. Did you learn anything from passing on the files to a third party or are the files easy for a professional CNC company just to send back what is needed? I won’t be able to offer them any help with queries. One thing I thought, the difference in thickness of wood, I’m going to go with MDF, do the plans state which should be 10mm thick which should be Xmm thick?

I believe source code is held in something called Escrow, at least it is with my contracts, basically meaning if the developer doesn’t fulfill their contractual obligations you may get access to it. So it’s not available to you until a legal hearing agrees they have broken their agreement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code_escrow

I would be sceptical of anyone taking sides right now, this ‘issue’ would be confidential and either party breaching that would be in a bad place legally, sounds like it’s with the lawyers now, who will be the only winners here.

I never liked them giving the base module free, even a token 10 bucks/pounds etc would increase cash flow of a deservedly great product, there is nothing else out like it so ask people to pay $10 for the base game. I would consider a subscription but I think that is definitely a massive option that would seriously put off new players. In any case, we have no idea what is going on so its all purely speculation, the reality will come out soon enough.