Hmm.. As a student, I have free access to a CNC milling machine hooked up to autocad. One of my friends is trying to make a short shifter from a block of aluminum..

Is it legal/ethical? to take a short shifter design... sayy.. the TRD design, and make an autocad file out of it - then mill your own? Is it easy/possible to make the 3d model of the shortshifter just by looking/measuring it?

As long as you dont make a profit off of it I think its fine.

I think it would be legal if your just taking mesurements and then making your own. Because your not claim it to be a twm or trd and its not going to 100% the same. But im sure il be in jail when im 40.. >>

why not, just alter the one u make slightly? make me one >>

eh, it would be hard to make an exact copy anyway, just make one for your self and dont sell them.

PS: your lucky I wish my 3d classes had a milling machine, even a 3d printer would be sweet, but my hs did not have the money >>

Those 3D printers are awesome. I would say go for it on the shifter as long as you know how to use autocadd right. The hardest thing would definitley be the threads.

any chance you could get access to a 3d scanner? also I wouldn't rip off twm's design as they have reps who occasionally come on these boards >>

-bojangles_8686+Apr 2, 2005 - 11:55 PM

Well in that case, dont to it >>