427 Big Block Chevy Prints
427 Big Block Chevy Prints
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Hi all,
Maybe someone here can help me find some prints. What it is I'm building at home is a complete 427 Big Block Chevy engine in SW. I also have one in my garage that I'm redoing also. I am taking Dims. off the block and the rest of the components, but there are some things that can not be taken manually. So I was wondering if anyone had some prints that they could email me or something.
I believe that I can put the entire engine together in Solidworks and mate it so it runs like a real one would. I also think I could take that same engine and make configurations of those components. That way I'll have custom High performance parts. I can then make different assembly configs of the 427 and have custom High Po engines. I'm only looking at keeping this for myself.
I appreciate any help or anyone that can point in the proper direction.
Thanks,
Maybe someone here can help me find some prints. What it is I'm building at home is a complete 427 Big Block Chevy engine in SW. I also have one in my garage that I'm redoing also. I am taking Dims. off the block and the rest of the components, but there are some things that can not be taken manually. So I was wondering if anyone had some prints that they could email me or something.
I believe that I can put the entire engine together in Solidworks and mate it so it runs like a real one would. I also think I could take that same engine and make configurations of those components. That way I'll have custom High performance parts. I can then make different assembly configs of the 427 and have custom High Po engines. I'm only looking at keeping this for myself.
I appreciate any help or anyone that can point in the proper direction.
Thanks,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
"Happy the Hare at morning for she is ignorant to the Hunter's waking thoughts."
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
But if you insist, here is where you really want to start : http://www.ncrs.org/
Crashj 'rather be towed in a Ford than pushed in a Chevy' Johnson
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
Thank you for the site and Happy New Year!
Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
any help would be appreciated, good luck with the big block
Oliver Manhire
engin_eer@hotmail.com
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
"make the dimensions of one part drive the dimensions of another part (by) editing them in the associated assembly."
Gee, I thought that was how we are supposed to do it? - ie relate the dimensions of one part to another in an assembly drawing. Have I been doing it wrong all these years?
BTW, isn't IRL going to the .15 liter Briggs & Stratton next year?
Crashj 'slower than carts' Johnson
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
To have one part drive another parts geometry is called in-contexting. I'm not going in-context my assembly or parts. I plan to have each component being it's own boss. Each part will have a DT controlling it's dimensions for example bore oversize. There will be a DT at the assembly stage and when I change the bore size of the block (which will be picked from a config name in the cells) I will have the proper configs change according to what size block is desired. This makes for a complicated DT but it's nothing different then what I'm doing now.
But if you want to in-context your assembly. Your going to have to edit each part at the assembly stage and either place your dims or add your relationships to your sketches, planes or other part geometry.
I hope that helps,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
Ollie
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
You can drive multiple part paramters via the API if you know how to program in VB. I have in fact done this wirh an entire vehicle chassis (sans the engine and powertrain) I will admit that I was FORCED to do it that way but it worked well. I does however go against the grain of the "top down" assembly approach where you make use of in context referencing (on eof SWX's big benefits) If you did for some reason want to do something like this, you can have a table of the SW parameters in an axcel spreadsheet and use this tagle to drive the dimensions of each individual component sequentially and rebuild them then finally bring up the master assembly and rebuild. It becomes quite involved depending on the amount of dimensions you wish to drive for example we wound up having to use an oravle dbase becuase we had somewhere in the area of 14000 variables, and many equations as well.
So the question is....how deep do you want to go! I'd highly recommend that you consider using the In-context relationships, and equations if necessary between parts in the assembly first. If you find that you need more than that, then you can explore the API alternative.
Regards
Jon
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
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RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
Why use API when you can use a DT to control your assembly just as well? A DT can be programmed to use different components depending on a single varaible. For that matter the DT could be a completely external Excel Sheet, yet it could still be able to control the model from the outside.
I understand VBA better than VB. I find that while using VBA (or Excels VB) the use of an excel Sheet and the Forms gives me more options for placing information or Data than VB does. In the cells I can place formula's to help figure data, I can program buttons on my sheet also. I can make a userform like you would in VB and control it the same way.
The only draw back to VBA vs VB is that VBA is just little limited in certain areas than VB is, but I have yet to run into a case where I found a limitation between the two.
Everything I described above can used as an embedded DT in SW.
Check this site I found:
http://geocities.com/aaronblood/menu.html
Check out the Fun & Games using Excel...this is really neat.
Cheers,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
I may be way of track here but maybe this will help.
You can drive your part dimension from a assembly spread sheet. There is an excell utility out on SolidWorks website under the 3D Modeling Liabrary, API, Modeling Utilities. Here is the description as it reads on their site...Excel To SolidWorks Link Template - Allow users to easily link cells in Excel to dimensions in SolidWorks. Also to allow users to extract mass property info from SolidWorks, and place values in Excel. In a nut shell you can drive any of your parts dimensions from the assembly level with this spread sheet. You can set up formulas or simply put in a new value. I have directed two other people to this utility and they have had great success with it. It has very simple instructions on how to use it.
If you do not have subscription support you will not have access to download the utility. If this is the case and this sounds like something you can use I would be more than happy to email it to you.
BBJT CSWP
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
You have some very good Ideas though Scott
ciao
Jon
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
Has anybody tried this thing and fixed the bugs?, I'm not a programmer.
Thanks for your help
Oliver Manhire
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BBJT CSWP
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BBJT CSWP
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This program works like a dream and I highly recomend it, although my pentium 100 is going to crap itself when my parts list starts growing!
Oliver Manhire
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I have been reading the messages between you and Oliver Manhire. I would be very grateful if you could email the 'Excel to Solidworks Link Template' to me. I have been looking for a way to insert relations into assemblies so that I do not have to keep going back and changing the dimensions of other components.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
RE: 427 Big Block Chevy Prints
What is you email address? I will send it to you from my hotmail account. Please do not reply to the email for I very rarely check it. I use it solely for sending outside of the company. Please post back here if you have any questions or comments.
BBJT CSWP