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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>This is a replica some museum has built. What caught my interest was the “hamster wheel” where you operate the crane. Then I found this picture, also from a museum which was a construction drawing of another crane, also having the hamster wheel, but two of them.<\/p>\n I though that this drawing would be a perfect drawing to build from, so it was time to fire up Cheetah3D<\/a> and start to build. Starting out with a box.<\/p>\n Shaping that box as a pole, making it exactly 4 units high and 0.1 unit wide, I would be doing things with presition this time.<\/p>\n Now, placing the pole in one corner of my imaginary 4 units x 4 units square, I now could start to build.<\/p>\n Here we have something, all corners. I would later shrink the square to 3×3 for proportions, but this is how it looked when I started. Now, following the drawing, I made the lower side bars first.<\/p>\n Then the upper one, using the lower ones but rotated 180 degrees along the z-axis.<\/p>\n Here is the framework as it looked when I’ve just placed the cross bars, not adjusted them along the y-axis as in the drawing, where some \u00a0are so be below the others.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n