selexon Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Hi Chaps, I'm a bit stumped at the mo. I remember reading a issue of PB last year and it featured one of the writers using a cad program to design some swingarm pivots etc for his R1 carbon swingarm. I remember him stating the name of the software and also that some reader was helping him out with the machining of the aparts. I have looked through my pile of mags but can't find it. does anyone know the name of the program or remember what issue it was in. Any info would be great. I need to make a rear caliper bracket and would like to have a go at it. As by reading his article it seemed sorta easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Solidworks? Google Sketchup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deviant Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Mark was using SolidWorks. It is definitely among the easier CAD packages to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fu_jac Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 there are a load available...... Rhinoceros is one of the best available, but it's not free (unless you know torrents) and learning the program requires a bit of dedication and a fair bit of patience... Blender is a brilliant free open source program you might want to try, i haven't used it myself but a lot of people swear by it..... but if all you need is simple geometric shapes im sure any of these or the others metioned will suffice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixerboy1 Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 If you have a basic understanding of acad then it is easy to pick up solidworks through using the tutorials included in the package. I learnt acad, solidworks and the cadcam package I now use through the tutorials. The best I have used for designing and making parts though are delcam products. They are not cheap, but they are very good and it is the one that Kemmy Roberts company used for machining the parts for the protons etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul8899 Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Solidworks was used for the cad part and onecnc was used for the machining part . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcaztls Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 As has just been said, the tutorials included in SW are pretty good at getting you familiar with most of what you'll need to do. There's also a good series of 'from the beginning' SW tutorial videos on YouTube. That's what I used, and the help of a very friendly machinist to work out what was actually possible and what wasn't. It's easy to design things that are a bitch or even impossible to machine. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
selexon Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Thanks for the input guys, I have watched a few of the SW vids on the tube and it looks like it offers the most online support. I've done most of the schematics for the bracket so now just need to turn in into a 3D object. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deviant Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 As has just been said, the tutorials included in SW are pretty good at getting you familiar with most of what you'll need to do. There's also a good series of 'from the beginning' SW tutorial videos on YouTube. That's what I used, and the help of a very friendly machinist to work out what was actually possible and what wasn't. It's easy to design things that are a bitch or even impossible to machine. Good luck! So Mark, did you stump up the five grand or so that a SW licence costs these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcaztls Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 So Mark, did you stump up the five grand or so that a SW licence costs these days? Cheque's in the post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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