Originally Posted By: hybrid8
I'd like the top to open to 65 degrees which I've shown in the model below

This is probably a dumb idea, and certainly not as elegant as what you intend... but as far as figuring out where the lift attachment points should be, could you make multiple pivot points like in the attached drawing and just use the ones that work best?

tanstaafl.


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