Recent content by jadog

Excellent, Thanks allot for your help Dave!

Does anyone know where I can get Cad drawings of Late model Pick up truck Chassis? Ford and GM I do after market desert racing suspension and it would be very helpful to get factory cad files for designing the aftermarket components. Even a phone number or Email of someone I can contact would...

Ya you draw the profile of your tubing the diameter and wall thickness and give it a name. You then draw a line or 3d line the shape you want your part you click structural member and the tubing profile you designate and it converts your line to that member. It also will notch all the...

There is tubing stretch issues i believe. It was my understanding that centerline wan not an acurate measurment.

I have a chassis designed using the structural member tool so that I could easily show all the notches. I wanted to be able to unbend these tubes to show the tube length and the notch size and orientation so that all the flat tubes can be laser cut prior to bending.

How do you detirmin cut length and the notch orientaion then? I know of a guy who does it but he wont tell how he does it. And his cost is very expensive. Plus I dont want to send my drawing out to another chassis builder.

I have designed a tubular chassis does anyone know how I can flatpattern my tubes so I can have all the coping done with laser? Can I use another program like inventor or somthing to achive this? I found a cnc tube bending sofware that allows me to import solidworks files but I dont want to buy...

Lol, ya you led me straight to my next question. I did want to to some sort of stress analysis. Im sure the design we have is strong enough it has been manualy built and tested. But I would like to know where I am over kill and to what degree. I wanted to use cosmos. Im not sure it will do some...

Rockguy, Ok well you both helped tremendously The triming and stuff though the weldment tools that works great. drawoh, I intend on all these tubes being bent on a CNC bender and I was hopfull that I could get this acurate enough to pre notch the tubes. Im not real familiar with the large scale...

I am currently trying to build a tube chassis truck. I was wondering what was the easiest approach. I need to be able to also show the notches in the tube where they meet. I looked at routing and Im not sure that is the answer. Plus there were limited instructions on using it. But standard 3d...