 My First Solidworks Drawing, Custom Throttle Plate... |
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| Britain Smith |
 Mar 30 2004, 11:46 AM
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Nano Member  Group: Members Posts: 2,354 Joined: 27-February 03 From: Hillsboro, OR Member No.: 364  |
I spent a bit of time going through the tutorials and talking to Hayden at WEVO, but here is a screenshot of my first drawing in Solidworks. I learned to use Autocad really well for a class about 7 years ago, a lot has changed since then. This is a bored out throttle body from a 2.4L Sunfire that I am going to use for my 2.4L turbo type-4 engine. This throttle plate will be using to mount the throttle body to the custom intake system.
Throttle Body: (IMG:http://i23.ebayimg.com/02/i/01/72/e2/58_1_b.JPG) Throttle Plate: Attached image(s) 
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| davep |
Mar 30 2004, 11:53 AM
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914 Historian Group: Benefactors Posts: 5,141 Joined: 13-October 03 From: Burford, ON, N0E 1A0 Member No.: 1,244 Region Association: Canada  |
Nice start. It is a good program. Too bad we don't use it much here anymore. I cannot justify getting the updates. Still, I am designing a few parts with it.
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| jonwatts |
Mar 30 2004, 03:40 PM
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no rules, just wrong Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,321 Joined: 13-January 03 From: San Jose, CA Member No.: 141 |
Nice. That throttle body looks a lot cleaner than when I saw it at breakfast. What did you do to it? When will you have the plate done?
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| Dman |
Mar 30 2004, 04:34 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 18-February 03 From: Sacramento CA Member No.: 311 |
Britain, SW is a great program. I've been using it daily since 96'
It was pretty crude when it first came out. but you can do just about anything with it now. Email me if you have any questions. dj@designannex.com. |
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| SpecialK |
Mar 30 2004, 08:28 PM
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aircraft surgeon Group: Benefactors Posts: 3,211 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Pacific, MO Member No.: 1,797 |
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I've got SW 2003, Mechanical Desktop V6, Inventor V5 and plain old AutoCad 2002, and I think that Solidworks has the shortest learning curve by far. |
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| Mueller |
Mar 30 2004, 08:46 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None 
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SW is or was way easier to learn and use than Pro/E...Pro/E has now gotten rid of the million menu commands and is much, much closer to SW.
I had a demo of SW and I really liked it, SW '04 would be my choice if I had to buy a CAD program all over again, it has more features that come standard...Pro/E is like Oracle...you get a base program and have to pay thru the nose for options and packages that you need/want (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif) looks good Britian, save it as a STP file and I can import it right into BobCAD for the G-code |
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Mar 30 2004, 11:54 PM
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I have a full version of solidworks. I just started using it today! My cousin is a ME major at UC Davis. So he was able to get it for me.
Mike, still looking for your autodesk inventor. |
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