914 CAD drawings/models... Does anybody have any? Options

[holtby914]

Was curious if anyone had ever made any CAD models of a 914 (specifically in Solidworks or Catia?). Any cad models related to a 914 would be helpful.

Cheers,

Blake

[Optimusglen]

I thought I'd chime in here. I'll echo everyone else in that if you're doing suspension components for a real-world application you'll thank yourself later for getting the kinematics figured out first.

As to the original post, Solidworks and Catia are both nurbs based model programs similar to Creo (which I use) My 914 model is also nurbs, but like Mueller said I'm holding onto it. When I made this it was pretty early on in my body modelling history, and as time progresses I see more and more that's wrong with it. It was a project that I was doing a lot of learning on as well so the feature tree is a bit of a patchwork.

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/c2.staticflickr.com-19709-1536948425.1.jpg)

There are other 914 models out there on the web, some free, some you can buy, but all of them (that I've seen anyway) are polygon based models as opposed to nurbs. So they're fine for rendering and video games etc but not for engineering based projects.

This is one of the polygon models. I created the wheels though, in nurbs.
(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/live.staticflickr.com-19709-1563909087.2.jpg)

100%, if you want an accurate model use the scanner. I can't tell you how quickly I'd be taking that opportunity if I had access to a scanner. Just make sure that the car you scan is correct, lots of these have been tweaked over the years.