I am taking a CAD class at school and we have a project due in october. It has to have 20 unique parts. It has to be something in our major (Mechanical engineering specializing in Automotive engineering). I want to use my car, but i suck and it would take me years and alot of money (I almost crushed the mouse because i was so frustrated by the homework) So what i was thinking of designing a rim and tire. i know even with a bunch of features it still won't meet the requirement of 20 unique parts, so i would include brake rotors and caliper. i still don't know if that will be enough.

What do you guys think? Is this a good idea? Do you think i can meet the 20 unique part requirement? Anyone have experience with Solid Edge?

 

If you did an entire hub assembly (hub, brakes, wheel), you can definitely get up to 20 parts. Check out this picture:



Or you could do the rear subframe:





There are so many possibilities.

 

thank you very much for the pics, that will definately help. i was thinking of continuing on behind the brakes till i reach at least 20. so it would be rim, tire, brake rotor, brake caliper (&pad if i can get away with it). if that is not enough i would make the knuckle and hub. if still not there, i would make the suspension. the rear would be too much.

 

i will probabaly do the front suspension. now i need an easy set of coilovers and good wheel rim pictures.

 

google is your friend. and wikipedia

 

here are some parts i am thinking of using


will get brakes pics later (gotta go to CAD class now)

 

if anyone can dimension these parts that would be really helpful.

 

well I finally finished my project

isometric view:


front view:


back view:


side view:


top view:


i played around with rendering.
at the end of the day:


the shape of the crossmember is not right. does anyone have a good pic? i would like to work on it on the side.

 

Not bad man, but the brake calipers dont really have too much surface area against the rotors lol. Why did you decide against the coilovers?

 

i ran out of time. the project finally clicked together an hour before i presented. I spent all of my fall break working on it and still didn't get far. actually while others presented, i somewhat reshaped the crossmember and made the coilover mounts on the spindle lean back instead of point straight up. i think i may still make the coilovers in my spare time. i also want to make the wheels. we start using NX next week, so who knows if i will get to it.

 

wow nice job man.\

 

Good Work, Im a Cad Technician and i hate doing 3D work on CAD.

 

i thought Solid Edge v19 was hard... now we are starting NX 3.0. OMFG it is so user unfriendly. undoubtedly it is very powerful and accurate, but is a pain in my ***. the instructor even has trouble with it. 3.0 is very buggy, my instructor said "Make friends with the save button" and "Think happy thoughts" because it has alot of issues. Ohh well, i still want to find time to go back to soild edge and finish what needs to be made for the suspension.

 

Solid Works FTW!!!..LOL

 

sweet. just found out i got 94.95 out 100.00 possible points on the project!!