Table of Contents

 

Part

1.  Blank.

         

Part

2.  Body with new “tail”.

Mastercam

3. SW to MCX4.  In this tutorial you open your SW body file in Mastercam X4.  In Mastercam X4 you rotate solid body into the correct Mastercam XY planes, create a wireframe centered around the solid for toolpath containment and loft flat cut surface.  Also, your create new WCS views for toolplanes.

CNC

4.  Body toolpaths.  Units are all metric.  Toolpaths to cut body from balsa blank:  1) Drill axles holes us new FBM (Feature Based Machining).  Cool! detects holes in solid body. 2) Bottom shell wheel cutouts using rough pocket and finish parallel. 3) Cut body left and right side using rough parallel and finish blend toolpaths and mirrors toolpath (new in X3).

Part

5.  Front Wheel GT-F.

Part

6.  Rear Wheel GT-R

Part

7. Axle.

Assembly

8.  Assembly.

 

Drawing

9. Drawing.  11” by 17” paper.

 

Part

10. Washer.

Part

11. Axle Retainer with Mates.

Part

12. Eye Screw with Threads and Mates.  It is not recommended to model threads, but they are so cool.

Part

13. Cartridge with Mates.

PhotoWorks

14. Flames Decal for Body.

FloWorks

15. Analyze in Wind Tunnel.  Analyze assembly design using COSMOSFloWorks flow simulation and create animation of flow trajectories.  Our best was 5.20 drag!  Can you design car with less drag?

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