07-12-2008 18:47

zachjo

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

07-12-2008 18:56

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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

07-12-2008 19:06

sdcantrell56

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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

07-12-2008 19:22

R.C.

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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.

07-12-2008 22:36

Akash Rastogi

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

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

07-12-2008 22:46

MrForbes

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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)

07-12-2008 23:08

GUI

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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.

08-12-2008 00:06

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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

08-12-2008 00:26

roboticWanderor

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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.

08-12-2008 00:29

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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

08-12-2008 00:32

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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.

08-12-2008 01:17

artdutra04

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Square inside corners make me cringe.

08-12-2008 13:01

M. Mellott

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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.

08-12-2008 15:46

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

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

08-12-2008 21:46

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

I finished the red tread pattern. I think it turned out pretty nice. Comments welcome

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

That's a public link, you can view without logging in.

08-12-2008 22:58

R.C.

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Your the man akash, way to pick it up fast. Hope to see a sick drivetrain soon???

09-12-2008 00:56

Akash Rastogi

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

I still have to learn a lot before I can post up a decent drawing of that concept I told you about.

09-12-2008 08:52

M. Mellott

Re: pic: First time with CAD 2

Could you post the picture here on CD? Since I'm not at home, work doesn't allow viewing of Facebook pages. Access is usually blocked by most corporate and school servers to places like YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc.

Thank goodness they don't block CD!!!