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    Default Some CAD I have been working on, as of today haha

    So I am going to have my engine done in prob around 3 week. I need to start thinking about "stage 3" afterward. I intend to make a fully tubular manifold with schedule pipe nice and thick. Rather than buy a bunch of bends and worry about over-purchasing and under cutting, I'd rather e-mock my manifold up.

    I decided today to learn SolidWorks 2007. Not very hard to use, but not easy by any means. Takes a good concept of eye and thinking but, I think I made good.



    Thats the part I tried to replicate.








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    I got to the good stuff this afternoon:








    Pretty neat and I think it's decent for a first timer. Next up, turbo housing!

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    nice work, the bolt pattern of the exhaust manifold looks very useful. i think you might be able to plug solid works into a finite element program such as cosmos also. should you need to do any analysis.

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    Yeah it has COSMOS installed.

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    How do you know how large the diamater of the bends are and how long the piping is for the exhaust manifold.
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    Its CAD kriss, everything, I mean EVERYTHING, has a dimension, radius, and material.

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    I mean in real life, not in the CAD program.

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    Its CAD kriss, everything, I mean EVERYTHING, has a dimension, radius, and material.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon K
    So I am going to have my engine done in prob around 3 week. I need to start thinking about "stage 3" afterward. I intend to make a fully tubular manifold with schedule pipe nice and thick. Rather than buy a bunch of bends and worry about over-purchasing and under cutting, I'd rather e-mock my manifold up.

    I decided today to learn SolidWorks 2007. Not very hard to use, but not easy by any means. Takes a good concept of eye and thinking but, I think I made good.



    Thats the part I tried to replicate.







    Don't know what you intend to do. Are you going to dump your Solidworks design to a CNC machines and make a one of a kind custom parts? You need a deep pocket if that's what you want.

    You should also do stress analysis on the assembly too, whatever that is.
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    "Neat stuff Maynard"

    right-click "Materials" in the part tree and assign some various realistic colors and textures such as cast iron for the turbo body and polished stainless for the waste gate cap


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    comeon jon, you're unemployed, you got the time to either

    1) go back with calipers and measure
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    2) call up the manufacturer and find out with the measurements on those bolts/holes are aaannnnddd...



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