CO2 Rail Car Dragster
Welcome to cudacountry's SOLIDWORKS 2019 and Mastercam 2020 CO2 Rail Car Tutorials. We use SOLIDWORKS 2019 to design our cars and Mastercam 2020 to create CNC toolpaths to cut the car body.
C02 cut on Haas. Thanks Ed.
Body uses two configurations for display of two color/decal display states.
The following tutorials with the PDF icon are available for download. Download the free reader from Adobe.
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1. Blank. Includes cylindrical and center plane Mate References. This tutorial is the same as Shell Car blank. |
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2. Body. Includes Lofted cockpit with guides curves and Split Line windows! Big file so hold your horses. After completing this chapter, try the Decals Chapter 17 to add decals to configurations to create color/decal schemes. |
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3. Front Rim Lx. |
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4. Front Tire. Use on all front rims. |
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5. Wheel Assembly. Use this tutorial for all Wheel Assemblies. |
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6. Rear Rim Px. |
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7. Rear Tire with raised letters. Use on all rear rims. Use Chapter 5 to assembly Rear Rim and Rear Tire. |
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8. Rear Rim Spokes. Create sketches and loft spokes. Use Chapter 5 to assembly Rim and Tire. |
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9. Front Rim Spokes. Copy Rear Rim Spokes file and simply change dimensions to create Front Rim. |
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10. Axles. |
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11. Washer. |
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12. Assembly. |
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13. Drawing. 11” by 17” paper. |
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14. Eye Screw with Mates. This tutorial uses the new 2016 Thread Wizard to create threads. |
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15. Cartridge with Mates. |
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16. Decals for Body. Add decals to configurations to create two body color/decal schemes. Click here to try our Cudacountry Racing and orange flames files. |
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17. PhotoView 360 Rendering. Add camera and render. |
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18. Analyze in Wind Tunnel. Analyze assembly design using FlowSim flow simulation. |
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19. SW2019 to Mastercam 2020. Open your SW body file in Mastercam 2020. In Mastercam the solid car body is rotated into the correct Mastercam XY axis and moved to Mastercam origin. Then create check solid to keep tool away from fixture. Finish off with creating WCS plane. Units are metric. This tutorial also works with Mastercam 2019. |
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20. Car body toolpaths for Mastercam 2020. Units are all metric. Toolpaths to cut rail car body from balsa blank: 1) Cut body left side using finish Equal Scallop toolpath. 3) Mirror left cut to right side cut. This tutorial also works with Mastercam 2019. |
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C02 cut on Haas. Thanks Ed. |
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Use configurations to create two Body color/decal schemes. |
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