pic: First time with CAD 2

[Akash Rastogi]

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[zachjo]

that is one beautiful wheel, add some traction and you are ready to go.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by zachjo

that is one beautiful wheel, add some traction and you are ready to go.

I'm searching for some red rough top Nitrile. Thanks btw. =)

[sdcantrell56]

Red might be tough but you can get black roughtop. Or you could always use some type of linotex tread that is red. It also has an even higher coF

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

I'm searching for some red rough top Nitrile. Thanks btw. =)

Sent you a link,

http://www.belting.cc/incline-belting.htm
http://rubbercal.com/Woodworking.html

Nice CAD, the tutorials uploaded on the site are helping. lol.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by rc_cola1323

Sent you a link,

http://www.belting.cc/incline-belting.htm
http://rubbercal.com/Woodworking.html

Nice CAD, the tutorials uploaded on the site are helping. lol.

Definitley helped. I finished that tread I was thinking of.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...c&id=645471640

[MrForbes]

Looks like you're picking it up real quick!

btw, am I imagining things, or is the perspective backwards? (ie the front of the wheel should look larger than the back, not as it is now)

[GUI]

Originally Posted by squirrel

Looks like you're picking it up real quick!

btw, am I imagining things, or is the perspective backwards? (ie the front of the wheel should look larger than the back, not as it is now)

I'm not sure how solidworks does it, but in Inventor the default 3d view is some sort of parallel view rather than an accurate 3d perspective.

Originally Posted by GUI

I'm not sure how solidworks does it, but in Inventor the default 3d view is some sort of parallel view rather than an accurate 3d perspective.

That wheel is in Orthographic view, instead of Perspective. Different designers prefer different views.

[roboticWanderor]

yea it's real easy to change this in solid works, and it becomes kinda unsettleing in larger parts and assemblies. But, it's almost required for doing any acutal geometry or sketches if you want to refrence edges correctly.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by CraigHickman

That wheel is in Orthographic view, instead of Perspective. Different designers prefer different views.

We were taught by our robotics teacher and mentor to work with orthographic projections..so I didn't really notice any difference.

Originally Posted by lilstogi11

We were taught by our robotics teacher and mentor to work with orthographics projections..so I didn't really notice any difference.

Yeah. For sketches and working with small parts, I don't mind it. But I CANNOT work with it in an assembly of >4 parts... It just bugs me too much. I'm a spatial thinker, so seeing CAD in perspective makes me happy.

[artdutra04]

Square inside corners make me cringe.

[M. Mellott]

I agree with Art--try to get rid of the sharp corners in the triangular material savers, especially those nearest the center. Stress will concertrate in those corners and could result in fracture. Always use blends whenever possible.

[Akash Rastogi]

Thanks for all the feedback everyone. =) Appreciate it.