aussielimo
Automotive
- Oct 12, 2008
- 7
I'm taking the huge step of designing a body to go onto an existing chassis, so I can use the completed vehicle as a business card for my 'embryonic' design service!!
Chassis' have to be torsionally tested here in Australia, so I'm choosing the chassis of an existing Cobra kit with an approved-for-the-vehicle driveline so that I have no Australian Design Rules hassles when I go to register it. My aim is to simply design a body that will go onto the chassis and hey presto this is what I can do for YOU!! Hahaha!!
Seriously, I've looked at wood sculpting and clay modelling, and I have some pretty rough design ideas in my head. For someone that's never used CAD in any way shape or form but is pretty computer savvy, what's the best freehand CAD system that you could recommend?? I'm told the ideal way is to design what i want, download it onto CD, take it to a plastics/GRP molder, who then feeds it into a moldmaker which creates design out of foam which becomes the plug (step in any time if I'm wrong).
I am in Australia as you can gather, and there are NO automotive CAD schools or courses anywhere, just architectural ones. I'll be strating completely from scratch so your help will be most appreciated.
Cheers
JOHN
Chassis' have to be torsionally tested here in Australia, so I'm choosing the chassis of an existing Cobra kit with an approved-for-the-vehicle driveline so that I have no Australian Design Rules hassles when I go to register it. My aim is to simply design a body that will go onto the chassis and hey presto this is what I can do for YOU!! Hahaha!!
Seriously, I've looked at wood sculpting and clay modelling, and I have some pretty rough design ideas in my head. For someone that's never used CAD in any way shape or form but is pretty computer savvy, what's the best freehand CAD system that you could recommend?? I'm told the ideal way is to design what i want, download it onto CD, take it to a plastics/GRP molder, who then feeds it into a moldmaker which creates design out of foam which becomes the plug (step in any time if I'm wrong).
I am in Australia as you can gather, and there are NO automotive CAD schools or courses anywhere, just architectural ones. I'll be strating completely from scratch so your help will be most appreciated.
Cheers
JOHN