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Old 12-20-2012, 06:42 PM   #35 (permalink)
Sven7
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Sorry, I was responding to christofoo when you posted!

Did you see how the commenters were more concerned with the old car in the barn than the design?

Actually forgot to look back at your thread after the T-bird stuff. Gotta finish this post, do some job searching, then go back and review it. I do LOVE the old Chrysler prototypes though!

By 'glass' I meant Lexan. But there is a company locally that makes windshields for motorhomes. I may draw up a schematic and walk in to see if I can get a free price quote.

Oh, of course. I seem to remember custom auto glass isn't terribly expensive?

It's 'easy' but don't breath the fumes. My understanding is that carbon fiber is harder to mold around concave or convex edges, as it's stiffer that glass fiber.

Project: Mad Hatter

With three wheels, the frame shouldn't flex in torsion.

Duh, why didn't i realize that.

Aren't you in some design school? Have they covered 3d modelling or do you have a preferred application? I think you basic choices are box, NURBS or sub-division modellers.

I graduated with a BFA in Transportation Design from CCS last spring. They taught us to use Autodesk Alias so that's what I use- it's very powerful for making pretty surfaces but isn't meant for mechanical design. It'll work well enough to lay out suspension parts and whatnot for visualization, but you couldn't mill a cylinder head from it.

When the time comes to make the actual body I will probably print out sections from my Alias model as guides for the buck.


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Uffda.

I'm really irritated by people who fly flags for their local football team in traffic because they are distracting; but in this case an anarchist flag on a whip antenna might be a life saver.

They're irritated at you for rooting for the other team! Anarchist... haha. How about a white EM logo on a bright green flag?
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