HA, no chance of getting your hands on the software, sorry.
I work as an automotive designer for Ford. (At the moment I'm working in
Germany, before that England for 10 months, and I was with Ford
Australia for 4 years). You'd be surprised how quickly I could model a
1600, as long as I have good info to work with. I will probably be back
in OZ next year, and depending on who I work for, I might be able to get
permission to model up a 1600.
Andrew S
abrahamk wrote:
>
> IDEAS,
> Lend me the installation discs! :)
> It costs more than $20,000 even for a basic setup.
> Seriously though, where do you work?
>
> 1.The trick with this kind of software is knowing what to model.
> To do the whole car would take ages and you'd need a dedicated supercomputer
> to do the number crunching.
> You would only need to partially model important areas of the car for a
> structural and suspension kinematic analysis, and there is no reason why it
> wouldn't give good results that are useful.
>
> At the moment I am thinking about my strut brace and sump guard.
> By partially modelling the front end of the car you can tell where the most
> flex is, and hence where to place the bar for max. effect (CAMS regs say
> anywhere within 150mm of the strut).
> Also the sump guard can be used to reinforce the chassis rails - how much
> effect will it have / is it worth the effort, only a FEA model can tell.
> Where do I place the rear legs of my roll-cage, and in what configuration,
> for max. rigidity,
> etc...
> A good FEA model will help you decide on material requirements as well.
>
> 2. There are a few good suspension programs out there but you need the data
> for them to be any use.
> What you really need are the factory workshop manuals (failing actual
> blueprints). The manuals use accurate drawings so you need one dimension
> from the real object to determine the scale of the drawing, then you can
> measure dimensions from the drawings far more accurately than you can from
> the real object.
> This data would be quite useful and could be stored online.
>
> Regards,
> Nick
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