Some CAD I have been working on, as of today haha

[Jon K]

So I am going to have my engine done in prob around 3 week. I need to start thinking about "stage 3" afterward. I intend to make a fully tubular manifold with schedule pipe nice and thick. Rather than buy a bunch of bends and worry about over-purchasing and under cutting, I'd rather e-mock my manifold up.

I decided today to learn SolidWorks 2007. Not very hard to use, but not easy by any means. Takes a good concept of eye and thinking but, I think I made good.



Thats the part I tried to replicate.

[Jon K]

I got to the good stuff this afternoon:








Pretty neat and I think it's decent for a first timer. Next up, turbo housing!

[rob101]

nice work, the bolt pattern of the exhaust manifold looks very useful. i think you might be able to plug solid works into a finite element program such as cosmos also. should you need to do any analysis.

[Jon K]

Yeah it has COSMOS installed.

[BigKriss]

How do you know how large the diamater of the bends are and how long the piping is for the exhaust manifold.

[Jon K]

Its CAD kriss, everything, I mean EVERYTHING, has a dimension, radius, and material.

[BigKriss]

I mean in real life, not in the CAD program.

Its CAD kriss, everything, I mean EVERYTHING, has a dimension, radius, and material.

[yaofeng]

So I am going to have my engine done in prob around 3 week. I need to start thinking about "stage 3" afterward. I intend to make a fully tubular manifold with schedule pipe nice and thick. Rather than buy a bunch of bends and worry about over-purchasing and under cutting, I'd rather e-mock my manifold up.

I decided today to learn SolidWorks 2007. Not very hard to use, but not easy by any means. Takes a good concept of eye and thinking but, I think I made good.



Thats the part I tried to replicate.

Don't know what you intend to do. Are you going to dump your Solidworks design to a CNC machines and make a one of a kind custom parts? You need a deep pocket if that's what you want.

You should also do stress analysis on the assembly too, whatever that is.

[gale]

"Neat stuff Maynard"

right-click "Materials" in the part tree and assign some various realistic colors and textures such as cast iron for the turbo body and polished stainless for the waste gate cap

[ryan roopnarine]

comeon jon, you're unemployed, you got the time to either

1) go back with calipers and measure
or
2) call up the manufacturer and find out with the measurements on those bolts/holes are aaannnnddd...



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