JamesH

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Started doing Isometric drawings today, only been doing it a few weeks, but today I go bored and tried to draw a Cossie header tank, what ya reckon?





I'm looking forward to 3D but that's a long way off!

Ad4m RST

andy warhol does cossie..i like it

Simon Day

Here's one I made earlier.... it was for my 3D CAD assignment, it is actually an escort cosworth jack.

Simon Day

Here is the solid display of it....

THEYGOTMETOO

I love doing CAD (much more than the machining side of things, although depending on what your doing that might not apply), spend most days doing CAD/CAM work to some degree or another:







I haven't got any formal qualifications in CAD/CAM (all self taught so far) but I have loads and loads of experience with lots of different CAD/CAM packages

Simon Day

What software do you use? - I used I-DEAS 11 for my project, it is shi't hot!

GARETH T

most of the world uses solid works

3d cad is something ive never done

Simon Day

It is quite easy to get to grips with, you can create a shape in 2D and then simply extrude it.

With a large model like my escos jack you just literally draw each individual component and then put them all together.

Ryan

would love to learn how to do this

anyone care to give me some pointers?

as did all this on paper when i did this at college but never on a PC

PaulCossie

in the aerospace world CATIA is the standard, solid works is not as good as it used to be. Autodesk inventor is taking over from solid works i reckon.

Simon Day

A lot of the engineering colleges put on good night school CAD / CAM qualifications for a reasonable price, there are two colleges and the uni i go to that do it.....

PaulCossie

Here's a bit of my handy work, this is the hydraulic manifold for a prototype tail rotor actuator for the Apache Helicopter. Also is a pic of the parts manufactured in aluminium for test purposes (the real ones were stainless and titanium).

GARETH T

PaulCossie


thats a very very very nice bit of work, ncie bit of cnc machining aswell

PaulCossie

Gareth, you a CNC bod?

The guys who did the NC work you see are very good (make my little CNC interact in the garage look like a toy)

They use matsurra 4 axis horizontals - amazing machines and so fast!

GARETH T

no mate,, far from a cnc bod mate,,,

fixed one or two in my time though (including the one in jampsort as my mate was having his car rolling roaded i was bored )

Graceland

Autocad 2004 here, with a formal qualification that i gained using R13


also got NVQ and C&G in Denford CNC software

boXXer

i tend to use paint myself. Pretty good at it now......



as you can see, i have had plenty of pratice at this. Can you tell what it is?














































seriously, some good drawings there. Would love to do that.

BILLY

LOL at Boxxer

Simon Day

Paint is a powerful package! PMSL

boXXer

Ryan

@ boxer

paul, fancy giving me a few pointers on MSN at some point.

Keen to learn this for certain ongoing products

MONSTER

we've just started using inventor, its coool

PaulCossie

Not a prob Ryan....

these days its easier to use something like Inventor than and old cad package like autocad.

As monster said, Inventor is an excellent package!

I have loads of books etc

FASTdan

Have used a few packages in my time, unigraphics 3D (v powerful!), mechanical desktop, solid edge and now inventor. This was my last project......

Fudgey

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i used microstaion for 7 1/2 years.

only done 2d tho, 3rd angle projection and iso.

was good for the 1st 2-3 years as i wactually designing stuff from scratch, then the fukkas got me doing railway circuit schematics...

VERY FUKKIN BORING!!!

all self taught tho, never done any courses and unfortunatly never got chance to use 3D...

DanRSturbo

My m8 uses Autodesk Autocad 2006 for office designs and layouts Some amazing stuff there guy's

Joris_FRST

I just started using autocad again to make basic drawings of houses,

well actually to just be able to draw some perspectives of houses to see if we find a house that we can make it into what we want.

Much like the paint effort, but able to turn of layers to see the different stores

MONSTER

Autocad has to be the best for architectural uses, i use it all the time when i'm doing mods to the house

cos jon

I use Unigraphics (well now called NX3) everyday (its 3D) !!, its a very powerful tool when you get into it, been using all the Unigraphics since version 12, about 7 years now.

Its good if you get a full model of say engine block with pistons etc, and assign relevant mating conditions on the parts. You can then spin the crank and the whole assembly moves as it would in real life !!

trevCOSS

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use autocad 2006 Lite (scabs) and pro engineer

trevCOSS

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good friend uses solid works, www.baileys.tv

GARETH T

i would love too see a 3d engine model

cos jon

Unfortunately I work on Gas Turbines but use those modelling principles exactly the same as car manufactures use (by the way alot of F1 teams (mclaren) and car manufacturers (lotus) use Unigraphics).

A training course I went on had an engine model, and it looked bloody good when moving.

Sorry I have none to show !!

GARETH T

how the fuck would you program a cam belt?

Simon Day

Gareth T - I have got a disk somwhere with a 4 cylinder fully moving engine, done on I-DEAS all 3D rendered. Each part individually made and put together. It shows the cylinders moving - fuel - combustion - everything It shows how powerful I-DEAS is!...... only problem is I can't fooking find it I know that a couple of the engineers in work have it aswell, so I will try and get it on here soon.