Slow Build by Engineer

[fabr]

LOL! I've got alibre. sux drawing tubes. SW it's not.

[fastcorvairs]

LOL! I've got alibre. sux drawing tubes. SW it's not.

Auto Cad is the best for drawing tubes.  Engineer take your dwg down to a local hi school and see if there shop class teaches Auto Cad.  Allot of them due and would love to use your plans to teach the students to draw.  My local hi school dose and I work with the shop teacher all the time With this kind of stuff.  He even sends students here to learn machine work and lets me use there CMM when I need one.  My local hi school even has eight seats of Master Cam.

[Engineer]

Auto Cad is the best for drawing tubes.  Engineer take your dwg down to a local hi school and see if there shop class teaches Auto Cad.  Allot of them due and would love to use your plans to teach the students to draw.  My local hi school dose and I work with the shop teacher all the time With this kind of stuff.  He even sends students here to learn machine work and lets me use there CMM when I need one.  My local hi school even has eight seats of Master Cam.

Dang, never thought of the school, I have been paying real money to have projects drawn.  I have Autocad Inventor.  Are you saying it draws tubes well?  I have drawn some parts on it, but never really figured out how to get the parts to join together in space well.  I guess I need to tinker with it.

[fastcorvairs]

Dang, never thought of the school, I have been paying real money to have projects drawn.  I have Autocad Inventor.  Are you saying it draws tubes well?  I have drawn some parts on it, but never really figured out how to get the parts to join together in space well.  I guess I need to tinker with it.

In Autocad you draw a line even with a curve in it and then draw your circle at the end.  What ever size tube 1.25 1.5 1.75 then you click on the circle and give Auto a direction and click on extrude and the tube will appare.  if you have two lines cross then when you extrude it will automatically trim the extrusion where they cross. 

[Engineer]

Got some more bungs and HMS spacers including some customs ones made to my specs from Doug Heim today.  Great service!  Thanks Doug!

[Doug Heim]

Great. Let me know how they work out. I didnt have a 1" mono ball to check the custom HMS to. Any issue and Ill be glad to work it out with you.  Thanks for your purchase! Doug

[Engineer]

Great. Let me know how they work out. I didnt have a 1" mono ball to check the custom HMS to. Any issue and Ill be glad to work it out with you.  Thanks for your purchase! Doug

They fit perfect.  Dropped right in beautifully!

[Doug Heim]

excellent! 

[Boostinjdm]

In Autocad you draw a line even with a curve in it and then draw your circle at the end.  What ever size tube 1.25 1.5 1.75 then you click on the circle and give Auto a direction and click on extrude and the tube will appare.  if you have two lines cross then when you extrude it will automatically trim the extrusion where they cross.

Yup, type "EXTRUDE" select circle, pick "path" select line and walla.

[Engineer]

Yup, type "EXTRUDE" select circle, pick "path" select line and walla.

Are you talking about inventor or in Autocad mechanical?  In any case would you draw each tube as a part then assemble them or do the whole frame as a single part?

Where I get stuck is you have a tube that is angled at 22.703 degrees, then you want to attach another tube onto it 23.46" from some radius and it needs to angle at 87.93 degrees.  How do you tell it to join the tubes like that. 

[Boostinjdm]

Are you talking about inventor or in Autocad mechanical?  In any case would you draw each tube as a part then assemble them or do the whole frame as a single part?

Where I get stuck is you have a tube that is angled at 22.703 degrees, then you want to attach another tube onto it 23.46" from some radius and it needs to angle at 87.93 degrees.  How do you tell it to join the tubes like that. 

In autocad, extrude, subtract, and redo/undo.  Can be your best friends.  I've got a tube frame I did somewhere here that I'd show, but I can't find it right now.

[Engineer]

I am just going straight to a steel solid model....

Here is the 5-link upright / bearing / Cv drawn the old fashion way. 

[Grimm Reaper Racing]

Dang, never thought of the school, I have been paying real money to have projects drawn.  I have Autocad Inventor.  Are you saying it draws tubes well?  I have drawn some parts on it, but never really figured out how to get the parts to join together in space well.  I guess I need to tinker with it.

Inventor is a very capable piece of software.  I've been using it for 6 years and it is my CAD software of choice.  If you have any questions on how to use it just shoot me a pm and I'll get you taken care of.

[Engineer]

Inventor is a very capable piece of software.  I've been using it for 6 years and it is my CAD software of choice.  If you have any questions on how to use it just shoot me a pm and I'll get you taken care of.

Thanks Grim!  I will get with you when I have time to play with it draw it in Autocad Inventor. 

[Doug Heim]

Thanks Grim!  I will get with you when I have time to play with it. 

Sounds gay

Sorry could not help it either