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Originally Posted by Sven7
How are you making this 1/3 scale model? That's got to take some moola.
I have not heard of either Symscape nor Caedium. I use Autodesk Alias- that's what we're taught for styling and that's all I have time/resources to learn. But who knows. Maybe there's a way to translate it over.
There's also the option of making cross sections, printing them out and making a large MDF fishbone model to cover another way. Then I could make a 1/4 or 1/3 scale to do tuft testing on. It also wouldn't cost me hundreds of dollars in urethane foam to complete. 
A friend's old fishbone model and finished model for a class a few years ago.
PICT0066 by abm429, on Flickr
It was a tiny 4" long sketch. I didn't render it perfectly. You can see that the dark sky tones on the body form go all the way to the rear, while the greenhouse form looks like a split Vette. The forms are chopped off at the rear. Hope that helps.
That's why I'm doing a 3D model. Haven't had time to work on it this weekend. |
Actually, I'm trying to do this on the cheap. If it works, I'll start a thread. I just received most of the stuff today. Basically, Im using a lofted inner structure with foamcore transversals and longitudinals, with rubber extrusion caps on the edges. to smooth things out and provide thermal insulation.
Why thermal insulation? the exterior surface is .060" PVC sheet, formed over the lofted form with a heat gun. I'm hoping to get decent compound curves since the radii are fairly big.
It even has wheels which can rotate
This whole thing is going on a roof rack wind tunnel, with a multi-pressure tranducer matrix and load cells for Cd and Cl. (just like the big boys?)
Automotive body engineering - Roof Rack "Wind Tunnel": A Naive Idea?