Here is the final render of the boring head that I posted earlier with a hidden line and stipple treatment. The smoke (not your friend while milling) was created in Photoshop and rendered with the boring head as a Scaled Image background.

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Very nice, but the lighting at the lower left is a bit dark.

Jeff

Beautifully well done.

W.D.

Nice work, I love the details
and yes, maybe a little bit more light.

Marc

Great work Brad. I have two boring heads here at the shop, one has straight 3/4" shank & is quite small, the other has an R8 shank & will accept larger boring tools. Once again great work.

Just an excellent rendering Brad, great and clear in detail. no comment on this picture IMO.

Beautifully done Brad!

Thanks all for the comments. I thought I might hear about the low lighting from a few folks. I was going for a somewhat dramatic low-key effect. Even though it's not too dark on my monitor I'm sure it is on some that are calibrated differently. I plan on adding a couple of boring tools and doing a product illustration rendering with more uniform lighting. I'll post that when completed.

Great work Brad. I have two boring heads here at the shop, one has straight 3/4" shank & is quite small, the other has an R8 shank & will accept larger boring tools. Once again great work.

Thanks, I have a boring head with an R8 shank like this one. I'm a hobby machinist with manual machines, but after turning my first bolt with 4-40 threads I was hooked for life. I bought my first version of TurboCAD to support my machining habit.

Brad, this is indeed first class work.

It certainly brings back, to this scribe, the smell of cutting lube!

Regards Tim

very nice model Brad, Smoke is not a machinists friend for sure, I would like to see the dark and grey pattern of the smoke perhaps reversed so that the boring head was outlined by the grey instead of black. Sorry now I am getting way to picky, regardless it looks great!

Steve

Beautiful piece, Brad.

Henry H

You da man !  Awesome.