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Old 03-19-2009, 07:42 PM   #17 (permalink)
Blue Bomber Man
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GreenMile - '00 Mazda Protege ES
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Those little guys on the side have been hiding from me =) Thanks for pointing them out!

I think I am pretty sold on rear wheel drive, I'm convinced I could integrate an motor to the steering assembly. I also think that doing it this way allows for two person seating, or possibly a 2+1 setup if I tuck the 1's legs between the front two seats without increase the vehicle's size.

I do need to figure out more about lofting properly before I spend more time on this in SolidWorks. You'll notice that the above drawings have the front nose cutoff (the rear is intentional, but I couldn't round it off if I wanted to atm). This has to do with the cross section sketches that I loft the surfaces across. I can't seem to figure out how to close it at the end without making the loft fail for one of the few possible errors I seem to come across:

"Unable to knit surfaces together"
"Self-intersecting geometry"
or a couple others I can't think of at the moment. Anyone that has some experience with Solidworks I'd love to find out how to fix this or how to change my approach at creating the solid body. I cannot telling you how many hours I've spent beating my head over that topic. FYI it's SolidWorks 2007
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