OlderThanMe Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Well I made these up in SolidWorks today... Just a quickie for the overall design so they aren't done yet. They are 17X11 with 5" of backspacing. The lugs are 5 on 4.5 to fit most 5 lug Nissans... Lets see your designs! Be they on a greasy nasty napkin with brown lipstick on them or completed CAD designs! OTM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 when i was first messing around with solid works, i made a wheel but i cant for the life of me figure out how to render to darn thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 For these I just hit "save as" and picked .Jpg when I had the angle that I liked. You should be able to export it to any other program like Maya etc... I'm using SW 2007 Student edition with cosmos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 well, i guess solid works hates me. when i use the "save as" and try to save it as a .jpg it doesnt list .jpg as a file type. i fugured out how to copy and paste the pic into microsoft work, but thats about it. i beleve that im also using the same version as you OTM. im real good friends with the cad teacher at my high school and she gave me the trial disk to upload to my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Just take a screen shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudypoochris Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Fortunately I made a wheel paper for my manufacturing process class in where I designed a 17x10 or 17x11 wheel I like quite a lot... Don't ask me about the stress analysis. I never ran it and I am too afraid to. I was working on a turbine shaped wheel, but never finished... maybe I will finish it. Just added 17x10 turbine. If only some one would or could make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buZy Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Just take a screen shot. How do you do that exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_82_ZXT Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Hit "Print Screen" on your keyboard, then paste it into Paint or Photoshop and save it. Mario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexicoker Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 your student edition should have photoworks bundled with it. You enable it in the add-ons menu just like COSMOS. I did not design these, but a team member did: Sorry, its ginormous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I made this model years ago... Playing around using Stress Analysis with a 1E4 N tangential bearing loads on the lugs: FEA mesh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudypoochris Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 How did the guy end up making that carbon fiber outer shell? Mold-wise that is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Fortunately I made a wheel paper for my manufacturing process class in where I designed a 17x10 or 17x11 wheel I like quite a lot... Don't ask me about the stress analysis. I never ran it and I am too afraid to. I was working on a turbine shaped wheel, but never finished... maybe I will finish it. Just added 17x10 turbine. If only some one would or could make it. That is awsomoe Man! What CAD program did you use? (looks like my Inventor background) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudypoochris Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 That is awsomoe Man! What CAD program did you use? (looks like my Inventor background) Yes I used inventor. I like to draw in SolidWorks too though. I also use emachineshop.com's software for making basic things and getting a price estimate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudypoochris Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 New design, 18 fins instead of ~30. Deformation with 2500lb load applied vertically, slightly offset to front. Wheel is 17x11 weighs ~25lbs out of 6061 AL, haven't tried any weight reduction ideas yet, mainly because this wheel would be pretty much impossible to build for less than 98432894084 dollars. This is mainly just to show the pretty colors I can make btw. EDIT: Second and third pictures are equivalent stress and deformation for a 2500lb car undergoing an 8g later loading (I guess this would be impossible or very instantaneous) plus the 2500lb vertical load (4 times the static vertical load). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 My wheel is simple compaired to everyone else's. I made it when i first started playing around with solid works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudypoochris Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Its nice though! I can't express how hard it was to learn how to make the turbines in inventor. I can do it now, more easily, but it still isn't that great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I made another one today, its a little more complex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Its nice though! I can't express how hard it was to learn how to make the turbines in inventor. I can do it now, more easily, but it still isn't that great. You could use the Coil feature if the profile is constant, otherwise use Loft for the "through curves". As for the loading, I loaded mine like "shock loading" taking off in the 1/4 mile. LOL! So no problems with the ANSYS FEA in Inventor? Guess who is (pretty much) the sole QA Engineer for that program?? Have you tried Dynamic Simulation yet? It is a really powerful tool, but a really steep learning curve with regard to the UI. Sorry for the off-topic Boost Man Dan.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudypoochris Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I don't know how to use coil and loft yet (mainly because I have felt that my time is better spent learning solidworks...). I just haven't gotten into it. I will draw up something nice now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam393 Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Well I made these up in SolidWorks today... Just a quickie for the overall design so they aren't done yet. They are 17X11 with 5" of backspacing. The lugs are 5 on 4.5 to fit most 5 lug Nissans... Lets see your designs! Be they on a greasy nasty napkin with brown lipstick on them or completed CAD designs! OTM Reminds me of the wheels that are on the new Nismo tuned Z's i think theyd look pretty cool on S30's, nice design work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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