Solidworks FR500 Wheel

[ninety15.0]

Hey guys check it out...I was a little busy today at work so i built a FR500 wheel in solidworks. 18x10" and i threw a little tire on there...not finished with the tire yet but not too shabby for an hour or two of fun! Hopefully the attachment works.

 

[ninety15.0]

Here's another view...I know its tough to see but you get the picture. For the most part it's dimensionally legit! :flag

 

[cenok is family]

fr500's have only 5 "V" spokes...not 6. good job though

 

[795.0pacecar]

Cool, I used to make stuff like that in inventor when I was in drafting.

 

[90_Red_LX]

Sweet. I'm learning solidworks on my own right now. In CAD/CAM were using procam right now, which is easy, but solidworks is difficult to me right now. Did you just learn through the tutorials, messing around, or what? Just curious.

Heres a sinebar I drew up from a blueprint that I made in shop class. She should be heat treated by now so all I got to do is make the rollers, and a plate for the back then grind her to dead right.

 

[Daggar]

Ok but.... what do you do with it now?

 

[German5.0]

Here you go... I made these with Catia V5 (took three hours)... Hope you like them...

 

[millhouse]

Too funny...that's actually whay my profession is. Yes, I design wheels for a living. My most recent have been for Aston Martin and Audi...although I have done many....many proposals for the likes of Ferrari and Lambo.

 

[89five.o]

Look good. I always liked designing wheels in cad. I made some awesome spinners in Pro-E. I'll scan the pic if I get the chance. Right now one of my bosses at work (working for GM as an intern) is making me design machine parts on Autocad. It is a painful and excruciating process. He needs to upgrade to something better, autocad 3d is a pita.

 

[89five.o]

Ok but.... what do you do with it now?

You create the toolpaths. And then let someone with a CNC machine and blocks of aluminum take care of them

 

[ryan218]

can you like design a car in there too? how do i get these programs?

 

[89five.o]

Yes, you can design whole cars in these programs. Just search around and you'll find sites for some of the programs available. They are usually a lot cheaper to buy if you are a student and can purchase the student versions. I belive General Motors Uses Solid Works (or is it Unigraphics?) and so far my favorite that I've used is Pro Engineer Wildfire. CAD is what led me to choose Mechanical Engineering as a Major.

 

[German5.0]

We use these CAD programs like Catia V5 to design our Formula Student Cars. I worked with Solidworks and Pro Engineer but I can say that Catia V5 is the best CAD program available. Here is a rendering of our 2007 car. We design the whole car in Catia beginning from the frame, to the drivetrain and of course the exterior (what was my job).

 

[millhouse]

We use these CAD programs like Catia V5 to design our Formula Student Cars. I worked with Solidworks and Pro Engineer but I can say that Catia V5 is the best CAD program available. Here is a rendering of our 2007 car. We design the whole car in Catia beginning from the frame, to the drivetrain and of course the exterior (what was my job).

If you ask veteran Catia guys what they think if V5 you will get a entirely different opinion. All of the catia guys I work with really dont care for V5. It's taken away quite a bit of thier freedom in surfacing and creation. In all actuality it's beginning to resemble Unigraphics in both it's visual aspect (now Icon based) and functionality.

At this point in time Unigraphics still holds the edge in my eyes. It still has a far superiour drafting package than any other system (not that I really use it much). It also has a far superiour solids package which allows far more flexibility when constructing models. While I would have previously given Catia the edge in free form class "A" surfacing for it's Bezier surfaces....V5 now uses NERB based surfaces (just like UG).

 

[Daggar]

You create the toolpaths. And then let someone with a CNC machine and blocks of aluminum take care of them

Gotcha. That makes sense now.


Millhouse... Whip me up a set of aluminum Magnum 500 repros in 17 inch. Make em look like the original Magnum 500s though... not the ones that nostolgia sells.

 

[millhouse]

Gotcha. That makes sense now.


Millhouse... Whip me up a set of aluminum Magnum 500 repros in 17 inch. Make em look like the original Magnum 500s though... not the ones that nostolgia sells.

Sure thing chiefy! Seriously though...why would you want those when you have the option of having the Shelby wheels! Yes, were doing them.

On a side note...although while creating machined feature wheels you have to keep toolpaths in mind and avoid any type of kellering (multiple overlapping passes)...(unless you have an uber expensive sourced wheel), we dont create any toolpaths for wheel itself. That's the job of the machining source.

 

[89five.o]

We use these CAD programs like Catooia V5 to design our Formula Student Cars. I worked with Solidworks and Pro Engineer but I can say that Catia V5 is the best CAD program available. Here is a rendering of our 2007 car. We design the whole car in Catia beginning from the frame, to the drivetrain and of course the exterior (what was my job).

Looks badass. Good job on that. Sadly our school doesn't have a formula team. Only Mini Baja.

 

[German5.0]

To 89five.o:

Thanks!

Here are some pics of my first drawings and the finished car

To millhouse:

I never worked with V4 but to me is V5 a very good program and it is used by the most car companies (VW, AUDI, BMW...) here in Germany.

 

[German5.0]

Sorry... Again:

 

[millhouse]

To 89five.o:

To millhouse:

I never worked with V4 but to me is V5 a very good program and it is used by the most car companies (VW, AUDI, BMW...) here in Germany.

I can't speak for VW (part of AUDI), but Audi uses both Catia and Pro-E. Everything so far that we have dealt with (Audi & Lambo) has been Pro-E based (both solid models and drawings). All detail drawings for both are required to be constructed in Pro-E, and all solid models converted before sending.