Wheel contest

Technical Inventor
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Ladies and Gentlemen, start your CAD software!

I was randomly designing wheels in Inventor, and I was thinking about how stylish it would be possible to make some wheels. Then I thought, why limit the styles to my own brain. So here’s a challenge:

Design in Inventor a wheel. There’ll be 2 size classes: 6 inch and 3 inch. The 6 inch wheel must be underneath .8 pounds in weight, and the 3 inch must be under .4 pounds. Post a picture or link to a picture of a wheel you designed in CAD. The most stylish wheel will win at the end!

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With tread or without?

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Not too prefrential on tread, so if you don’t want to bother, don’t. As far as weight, tread is not included.

Also, here’s my submission: A 6 inch beauty weighing in at .720 lbs
http://www.hickmanfamily.com/craig/final_spiral.jpg

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http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5909/wheelrenderedeb4.th.png](http://img89.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wheelrenderedeb4.png)

6" OD 0.470 lbs

[edit]CAD model replaced with rendered part

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What’s the prize? :stuck_out_tongue:

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yah… you better send us some cake or something…

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Here’s my submission, throwin’ it back ol’ school style with gold spokes (18).
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d14/mongothor134/wheel1.jpg

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Maybe someone will get inspired by these hubless wheels?

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lol, i was working on an old fashioned spoke style as well. old school. but a little different. Maybe ill CAD it out

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We’re ridin’ spinners, we’re ridin’ spinners
They don’t stop
We’re ridin’ spinners, we’re ridin’ spinners
They don’t stop :stuck_out_tongue:

-7.5" pneumatic rim (squishes down to 6")
-Gold plated… :cool:
-Spinners… :cool:
-Embossed with our logo… :cool:
-If only we had the $$$

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My entry:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/9035/thewheellk6.th.jpg](http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thewheellk6.jpg)

6" OD (not including tread)
0.75" wide
3/4" hex for drive
0.746 lbs (no tread)
The base wheel is made completely out of fiberglass, but a layer of gold foil is glued on with an epoxy of some sort.

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720 lb???

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Well DUH! don’t you see how BIG it is???

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actually, if you look real close, there’s a decimal before the 7. :smiley:

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Here’s my old school wooden wheel.

Maybe not the most practical…

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Those have got to be the koolest looking rims I have ever seen! Should make them real rims to put on a car… would have your Logo everywhere you drive :cool:

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Very cool

Animation???

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Here’s an animation i made for Hachiban VIII’s wheel.
Here’s the GIF
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/spinmunky/fancywheel.gif

and here’s the video but photobucket makes it look horrid.
Explore spinmunky

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OK, so maybe it’s not Inventor or a robot wheel…I used CATIA to do this about a month ago.
http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/2878/rimjh8.png

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Random design for fun. 3 inches; the iProperties box says it’s .189 lbs…

http://www.geocities.com/worldbringer/inventor/wheel1.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/worldbringer/inventor/wheel2.jpg

The tread should have more raised lines on it between the FIRST logo imitations, but the emboss was taking forever to calculate the way it is now, so I left that out for now.