Designs for a widebody kit?

SIC Focus · Nov 11, 2001

If you expected pictures, sorry. I'm learning how to use a couple of CAD programs. Once I've got them down I am going to be designing a widebody kit.
Not some meager fender flares, but more of a fender replacement kit. I want to widen it by 2-3".
I have some ideas but if anyone with drawing skills or who uses photoshop (or equivelent) wants to come up with some designs and email them to me that'd be great. If I do use your ideas or parts of them I'll give you credit for it and you'll be the first to see the CAD/rendered pictures.
If this project works out well then maybe we could sell the kit design to a bodykit manufacturer.

Hey, it could happen.

So, if you've got ideas. Lemme know.

-JT

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sicko · Nov 12, 2001

what cad programs are you learning? I do that too so if you have questions or need some help let me know.

zetecracer · Nov 12, 2001

if someone can post them i have a few designs, plus dozens others of non-widebody kit designs.

Wrathchild · Nov 13, 2001

my girlfriend is a junior aerospace engineer student if anyone need cad help she haz cad 2000

SIC Focus · Nov 13, 2001

sicko: I have Rhinoceros 2.0 and IntelliCAD (just like AutoCAD but hella cheaper). I'll mostly be using Rhino though. I've been absorbing the tutorials that I find as fast as I can but if I have questions I'll let you guys know.

zetecracer: If you want, I could post them for you. Just email me them and I'll put them up.

-JT

sicko · Nov 13, 2001

rhino looks very cool.

anybody that uses autocad should also download the free intellicad! has got us out of a ton of jams. will read a file when autocad wont.

RUDE-E · Nov 13, 2001

Very cool! I do AutoCad. Mainly architectural stuff. If you guys need help let me know.
Or if I have questions i'll ask you guys.
I have been doing architectural work since high school and CAD stuff for about 4 years.

SIC Focus · Nov 14, 2001

Hey, we could get a sweet design team going here!

Rhino is a sweet program. Saleen used it to design the body on the S7. I downloaded the evaluation version of Rhino and found a nice little patch that makes it full version.

If people want it, I got it (the patch that is).

This is where I got the idea of using Rhino to design the bodykit(s): http://www.ifrance.com/LMD/html/audittUS.html

If someone knows where I can get line art drawings of the focus like in the tutorial it would be most appreciated.

-JT

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SIC Focus · Nov 14, 2001

Oh, and I forgot to mention in my original post that I am designing this kit for the ZX3. If it turns out well maybe it could be adapted for the sedan. We'll see.

-JT

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SIC Focus · Nov 16, 2001

Anybody else got any ideas?

zetecracer: you gonna email them designs so I can post them??

-JT

J-Rod · Nov 16, 2001

Oh I really could help out a lot, but its gonna cost some major bucks

AutoCAD? Man, I haven't used that program in highschool 5 years ago... if you wanna get some kick a$$ CAD software expirence look into ICEM surf. If deisgn is a field your looking to get in then spend the $$ to get training. Surface guys make some good bank. Ford, Porche and Harley Davidson (and I'm sure others) use ICEM for all their surfacing. It rocks!

frios · Nov 20, 2001

Hey SIC, nurbs are so bad-a$$! I use to go to school and learned NURB modeling on Power Animator. This was way before Maya, and was an industry standard. Now that SGI basically forced Maya, on everybody, I tried taking courses to learn Maya on SGI, and found it quirky compared to PA, but pretty powerful. NURBS allows you to make just about anything you can think of. I hate programs that use polygons for modeling.

Designs for a widebody kit?

SIC Focus

sicko

zetecracer

Wrathchild

SIC Focus

sicko

RUDE-E

SIC Focus

SIC Focus

SIC Focus

J-Rod

frios

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