[Jacob Paikoff]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Are there any flanges on those cross members or spacer plates in between the blue drivetrain plates? That can easily add a lot more rigidity.

Yes

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

but you might want to take it easy on the cheese holing until your design is structurally sound...

I cheesed everything because I wanted to experiment with different types of lightening.

Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19

I can't tell but I would like to assume the center 4 are dropped? That' important.

Yes, there dropped a 1/4"

Originally Posted by artdutra04

How do you plan to join all these pieces together? Rivets are great in shear, but can only be removed by drilling out the holes. If you need something that may need to be removed, use PEM nuts. On 228, we use tons of PEM nuts (#8-32 and #10-32) to hold almost all of our sheet metal parts together, as you can use countersunk flat head screw on your outer frame perimeter to comply with the ridiculous frame perimeter rules that 1/16" high rivet heads would fail.

3/16 rivets

Originally Posted by Formerly Famous

Okay, I have to admit; you did a GREAT job with the CAD. How long have you been doing this? IT looks like you are using Inventor though; such a pity.

Thanks, I took me about two weeks to do(but I didnt spend all of the two weeks on it, I had to go school some of that time)
Ya, I am using Inventor because thats what we learned at school, but I'm going to try to learn Solidworks when I go to college next fall.