Drawing anything in solidworks and actually building the object are two completely different things. In about a week and a half i built a trebuchet from pine wood, hooks, lead, string, metal, and cabinet liner. Everything in solid works snaps right together and perfect straight cuts, but solid works is not real life.Every time you cut a piece of wood it tends to try to mess up, it could split and crack! The machine in the picture that me(right side) and my class mate are using was used to cut long pieces of wood vertically that was too large for other saws. Your wood in this machine is not always going to be straight, it took me a few times to realize that. Assembling the trebuchet together is also a challenge because you could screw or glue something together that won't be straight as you think.
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