cygnusx1 Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Well after 14 years of drafting tables and two dimensional AutoCAD, I finally took a five day training class for Solidworks Pro 2006. Here I sit at work supposedly designing packaging for a retail company.... Look what I modeled instead. It is a 17"x8" wheel. Chip Foose, eat your heart out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xtrmgt Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 very nice!! I haven't used solidworks a whole lot but I use Pro/e a ton and always planned on doing stuff like that for my car. I really need to get on that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhadman Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Cygnus, I think you'll learn to love SW. I now hate using AutoCAD (which I started using in '91). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 I think moving from AC to SW was like moving from the board to AC. It's a huge leap forward. I can't get enough of it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilC Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 I think moving from AC to SW was like moving from the board to AC. It's a huge leap forward. I can't get enough of it! I wish I could say the same thing.........I had way to much of it last semester! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 It gets old, fast... but it's a hell of a lot better than the alternatives! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted May 5, 2006 Author Share Posted May 5, 2006 When I was in engineering school we had FORTRAN...so something like Solidworks 2006 is a miracle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TegRacer324 Posted May 5, 2006 Share Posted May 5, 2006 Yeah I wish it was in the ciriculum at our school. Unfortunately I don't think any of my required classes are on CAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 Teach it to yourself outside of school. If you are studying engineering you will be able to find a bunch of other uses for it with your class work, and it's entirely possible that it will get you a job down the road. It's a worthwhile skill set to have, and it isn't very hard to learn the basics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iaconsultants Posted May 6, 2006 Share Posted May 6, 2006 All the newer Cad packages are great out there. I am a firm believer in Pro/ENGINEER and not just because I worked for PTC as a consultant, but I have made an entire consulting business from Engineering and Pro/ENGINEER or whatever the customers want to use. Just pick it up get god at it and try contracting, once you have a good name you can make some really good money - probably 3 to 5 times as much as direct and I speak from experienc on that. Good luck and feel free to ask me questions if you want to try to get into business on your own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinked_Chrome Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 I used to love solidworks, but after this year i used it so much for designing our mini baja it's basically second nature to me now. I doesn't quite have the excitement it used to. COSMOS is rather handy, you guys need to give that a try. Here are some renderings of the '06 Boise State Mini Baja that i did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-Z Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Thats awsome. But one thing, I know that, that is a model to show suspension but how would the drive line be hooked up? I would see youe needing telescoping half shafts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savageskaterkid Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 I am sure this program is quite expensive, probly more then photoshop programs and such. But how much and where can you get it from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Solidworks has a list of dealers on their website, the one I've dealt with is CAE Northwest. A seat of a full on professional package runs about $5,000, but there are other options out there that are less expensive, especially if you are a student. BTW, nice renderings Kinked_Chrome! I've been down that road with our FSAE car too for our documentation, and yours came out really well. It's a lot of work but very worthwhile in the conceptual stages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_82_ZXT Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 I used to love solidworks' date=' but after this year i used it so much for designing our mini baja it's basically second nature to me now. I doesn't quite have the excitement it used to. COSMOS is rather handy, you guys need to give that a try. Here are some renderings of the '06 Boise State Mini Baja that i did. [img']http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e9/Kinked_Chrome/EntireAssemblyArticulate4.jpg[/img] Damn we are so getting our asses kicked..... Awesome work! Mario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinked_Chrome Posted May 7, 2006 Share Posted May 7, 2006 Thats awsome. But one thing, I know that, that is a model to show suspension but how would the drive line be hooked up? I would see youe needing telescoping half shafts. yep, that is exactly what we have. Last year we ran CV's that slipped in the joint itself, and they failed. This we year we are still running CV's but we robbed some parts off a half shaft and built a telescoping CV axle. Mario, don't worry about getting your beat to bad. We've test driven it twice and broke it twice, so much for our FMEA. Of course we've been driving it to the absolute maximum. List of broken parts includes: 2 .5" high stregth heim joints 1 bent front spindle 1 sheared 7/16" grade 8 bolt from our steering 1 really bent steering arm. In my experience though, the course won't provide anything Like what we've been putting out cart through. But we shall see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 List of broken parts includes: 2 .5" high stregth heim joints 1 bent front spindle 1 sheared 7/16" grade 8 bolt from our steering 1 really bent steering arm. [img']http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e9/Kinked_Chrome/FrontSuspensionSub.jpg[/img] Is the lower one the heim joint you broke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinked_Chrome Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 Is the lower one the heim joint you broke? it was both of them and the steering bolt all at the same time. It came off a 20ft gap and 5-6ft drop all on the one wheel when it was cranked to the right. I think that it was pretty much a worse case scenrio. Oh, and it bent the spindle on the that one as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 sweet! I had a3 month trial version of Solidworks aqnd am about to buy the student version for $120. I really like how you can make blueprints so easily from the rendering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 There is a lot of bending loads on that lower rod end... threads tend to fail when placed in bending. I would suspect that the lower rod end failed first, causing the other parts to fail a bit later in the impact. You'd get ripped apart for doing that in FSAE, not sure how stringent the judges are in baja in comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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