For all of you CAD fans out there, please check out the chassis forum/is this chassis too small???
I have rapid prototyped a chassis from a CAD drawing which may be of interest.
Fab CAD work by the way, looks awesome...

gearbox added (roughly done)

forget the name in english :o

Steering rack! Is the Bimmer's rack the right length? Cause the LHD Escort quick rack from Rally Design will cost in the vicinity of €200 with postage.

No. The BMW rack is to long. I know I tried it.

hi everyone

holidays are over

Cad drawings
 

Hi Fabrun.
I have been following your thread since I became a member. I am also building the roadster using a BMW318 as a donor. My frame is about 90% done, and I am getting ready for the next phase, fitting out. You have done an incredible job modeling and designing this car in cad. Would you be kind enough to share the model and drawings? Having access to these details would be a huge benefit. You can see our progress at grichtler.blogspot.com. I lead a number of cancer patients who are doing the work. It is meant to be a therapeutical exercise designed to keep their minds off their difficulties. Everyone involved is very enthusiastic and cant wait to actually get the car done. Thank you in advance
Gunter

hi gunter
no problem
pm me your email,

hi. i sent you a pm too with my e-mail. did you got it? thanks

yes i got it

I didn't got anything. it's a big file size?

re-sent
br

I didn't received it. can you try maxubar@walla.com please?

Thanks

look in your pm as well

Oh sorry i thought you were sending it to my e-mail.
Thanks

PM Sent fabrun. (2 actually as it errored first time...)

Cheers,
Taffy

hi
i sent you an email yesterday!
check pm as well

Still trying to get my head round creating things with solidworks, I can read and create drawings the old fashioned way no problems but this puta way is mind blowing....I can see many a lost day just sat pressing keys just hope I can do what I want with it:cool:

Hats off to those who know how to make cad work creating models and drawings etc...I'm still at the confused stage:rolleyes:

Hats off to those who can create so beautiful seat!

Last news:
The build has started!
I ask some help to a technician school
Students are happy to work on such project
They are on holydays now, so more news next month!

Cheers and I'm hoping to use solidworks to sort out my next daft invention:D

I've not tried a Haynes chassis in Google Sketchup, but I've done enough stuff with it now to know that it would certainly be possible.


The advantage of Sketchup is that it is free, BTW :)

Pm sent fabrun :)

So was my copy of solidworks 2009....;)

Solidworks is the bees knees you change materials etc so draw summat up and faff about making it look like anything from wood to carbon fibre....just wish I could remember what buttons to press and why o why do they use puta nerdy speak for engineering terms it's confusing my stupid old brain:o

You can do the same thing with Sketchup, and can even paste your own photos onto stuff.

Or you can take a picture of a building, then use an add on program to calculate where the picture was taken from, and actually draw the building from that, no need to enter the dimensions.

There's a lot more Sketchup models out that you can download than there are for Solidworks, I daresay Solidwiorks is ultimately better but usually it is very expensive too, so the user base is much smaller.

The difference is that Solidworks edits models (like a CAD), whereas Sketchups works with meshes.

Not really telling us a lot there, though, are you? That sounds more like a difference in how it works rather than what the difference means to the user.

The main difference is that Sketchup is a tool meant for modeling structures for Google Earth program.

As SolidWorks and other mechanical CAD programs are professional tools for engineering. With these tools you can create structural frames, sheet metal parts, parts with very complex geometry, make drawings that are associative with the model from what the drawing is generated from. Then assemble those parts, run simulations for mechanical strengths, aerodynamics, thermal problems. Use CAD data for CNC manufacturing etc.

Some examples what I have done in SolidWorks:
Drawing of Roadsters base frame.
Drawing for my coworkers AC Cobra replica scuttle and firewall area
And those panels (flat patterns CNC punched and pressed then CNC bended) trial fitted Pic 1 Pic 2
Looking quite good, don't they? Can you do those things in Sketchup?

Madis

Can tomato sketchup create dxf files that can be read by cnc machines so your parts can be laser cut and or cnc machined? Because solidworks can...:)

This is getting a bit silly. OF COURSE SOLIDWORKS IS BETTER, no-one, least of all me, is denying that.


Please remind me how much Solidworks costs someone who is buying it, and then we can compare it with how much Sketchup costs.


Here is a list of what the professional version ($495) can do in terms of import and export. I believe that you can get 8 hours of demo use free, so you can create a model in the free version, then use 30 seconds of Pro time to export it in the chosen format.

http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/p.../whygopro.html

The tinterweb is a wonderous machine, I got about 8 Siouxsie and the banshee albums in a matter of hours with as many if not more Cocteau twins albums say no more;)

Dubious moral ground though, isn't it. How would you feel if someone took moulds off stuff you've made?

I made a point of taking the piss at Stoneleigh a few years ago when I saw that Carbon Mods had copied my low side seat. If you look at the stuff they do it's all copies of Westy and caterham stuff.

Laws are made to be broken otherwise what is the point off having coppers:rolleyes:

Mr Henderson,

You started to compare SolidWorks with Sketchup.

For true mechanical CAD the cheapest option is Alibre Pro http://www.alibre.com/products/ad_compare.asp. It's not as mature as SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor or SolidEdge, but it is also a lot cheaper than other mid range MCAD packages.
I will say again that Sketchup is not a mechanical engineering CAD software, although it can be used to make very neat models and schemes in PRO version.
For 2D CAD I sugest to check out fee DraftSight from Dassault Systèmes the mother company of SolidWorks.

What an extraordinary thing to say.







No, I didn't, I simply pointed out that it would be possible to draw up a chassis in Sketchup.

I was led to believe that the Roadster was done in sketchup but then i might be telling fibberoons again:D