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914 CAD drawings/models... Does anybody have any? |
holtby914 |
Jan 12 2018, 12:46 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 42 Joined: 16-November 16 From: Ontario, Canada Member No.: 20,593 Region Association: Canada |
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 |
Mendivil26 |
Aug 12 2019, 12:01 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 26-July 18 From: Riverside, Ca. Member No.: 22,344 Region Association: Southern California |
Hello,
Did you get around scanning any parts? I'd like to model a 914 long travel suspension for my project so I need to model control arms and struts. |
Superhawk996 |
Aug 12 2019, 02:07 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,748 Joined: 25-August 18 From: Woods of N. Idaho Member No.: 22,428 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
Hello, Did you get around scanning any parts? I'd like to model a 914 long travel suspension for my project so I need to model control arms and struts. If you are going to modify suspension, you will be better off working out the kinematics based on the available package space, the tire size and offset you want to use, and your desired suspension geometry rather than starting with the compromise of existing parts. If you're serious about this project, I highly recommend you read Engineer to Win, and Tune to Win from Carroll Smith 1st. Design work can be as basic as cardboard cutouts and pushpins (cut out to some reasonable scaling factor) or you could go out and buy licensed copies of Adams and CATIA for about $250K. AutoCAD (Autodesk) Inventor also has some nice kinematics modeling last time I used it (around 2016). If you are a student, look into student version software. https://www.mscsoftware.com/formula-student |
jd74914 |
Aug 12 2019, 02:19 PM
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Its alive Group: Members Posts: 4,776 Joined: 16-February 04 From: CT Member No.: 1,659 Region Association: North East States |
Hello, Did you get around scanning any parts? I'd like to model a 914 long travel suspension for my project so I need to model control arms and struts. If you are going to modify suspension, you will be better off working out the kinematics based on the available package space, the tire size and offset you want to use, and your desired suspension geometry rather than starting with the compromise of existing parts. If you're serious about this project, I highly recommend you read Engineer to Win, and Tune to Win from Carroll Smith 1st. Design work can be as basic as cardboard cutouts and pushpins (cut out to some reasonable scaling factor) or you could go out and buy licensed copies of Adams and CATIA for about $250K. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) Kinematic modeling is far more important at the beginning stage than part modeling. Designing control arms is more a game of connect the dots with sufficient stiffness (and low compliance in your mounts)-the tough part is figuring out where the dots are to connect. Amateur mistake to start with parts first and be kinematically compromised. Lotus Shark is available for students too and is an easy to learn and powerful package (it also allow compliance analysis). SolidEdge is free for academic use (permanent license) as is AutoCAD Inventor. |
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