Yeah, really good Sketchup work. I tried Sketchup but my results were not
nearly as impressive. How did you go about learning the software ?
Thanks,
Doug
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Steve Tyng
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:07 AM
To: R/C Tank Combat
Subject: [TANKS] Re: M113 design progress
Nice Sketchup work. I've just ordered Rhino so maybe someday I'll be
able to do stuff like this.
Steve Tyng
On Oct 17, 6:36 am, Modena <[email protected]> wrote:
> I will be building an M113 as my next vehicle and have been playing on
> and off with designing and now have a fair bit of measurement detail
> on drivetrain components. I have found it immensely helpful to the
> design process to draw components to exact size in sketchup, such as
> bearing housings and wheels, it really helps with visualizing and
> determining available space for bolt heads and the like, rather
> important where tolerances are small.
>
> Here are some pics of the external suspension components, springs will
> be torsion bars on the inside. The vehicle body, drivetrain and
> suspension will be all steel. The bearing housings are steel with
> bronze bushings, 12mm for swingarms and 16mm for driveshafts. The
> idler will be on a small swingarm, with a turnbuckle for track tension
> adjustment.
>
> Drivetrain 5.jpg
> 358KViewDownload
>
> Drivetrain 4.jpg
> 374KViewDownload
>
> Drivetrain 3.jpg
> 343KViewDownload
>
> Drivetrain 2.jpg
> 539KViewDownload
>
> Drivetrain 1.jpg
> 342KViewDownload
>
> Drivetrain 6.jpg
> 422KViewDownload
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