Help On This Custom Motorcycle Design!

by Karthik
(stoke-on-trent)

I'm an automotive engineer student from Staffordshire University. And as a part of my project, my task is to design a custom motorcycle and perform structural analysis on the simulation model. I have used catia software as the designing package. And as a sample of the design the following image is shown. But the problem is that I need the completed dimensional design of the chopper in order to perform a realistic analysis on the frame. Can anyone please suggest what can be done for that?

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Mar 02, 2012
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Hy
by: Luk Custom

Hy. I have never worked with this program. I worked with 3dsMAX 2011. I think you can import that work in Auto Cad. If you worked at scale, in Auto CAD you can get those plans. You can go to print on paper the real plans to build the frame. If you want to make just the model ... the simplest way I see is with Henco pipe. You can make a bunch and shape it. After modeling you can cover it with fiberglass , putty, etc.. If you want to make a functional thing ... use the classical method with steel pipe

Nov 17, 2011
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Hmmm...
by: Frank

You think to build that chopper? On the Internet there are plans for choppers ... of course, none with the fork so long. I leave a couple of links:

http://www.google.cl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mechwerks.com/Mechwerks_plans_drawings_files/image002.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mechwerks.com/Mechwerks_plans_drawings.htm&h=285&w=480&sz=14&tbnid=2Nxmv3RTPj_1DM:&tbnh=73&tbnw=123&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dchopper%2Bplans%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=chopper+plans&docid=Kk3tfctjoAatVM&hl=es&sa=X&ei=UMfETs-1LYeFtgeNvYW_Cg&ved=0CCMQ9QEwAQ&dur=400

http://www.google.cl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.texas-choppers.com/catalog/images/full_size.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.texas-choppers.com/catalog/default.php%3FcPath%3D24%26osCsid%3D0ab082832748b67036798fcafe88d05b&h=298&w=450&sz=20&tbnid=Xi7yCHkFBjzSHM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=136&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dchopper%2Bplans%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=chopper+plans&docid=5jxH6q1UmuuXaM&hl=es&sa=X&ei=UMfETs-1LYeFtgeNvYW_Cg&ved=0CCsQ9QEwAw&dur=238

I hope you serve something. If I thought chopper build that wall chromoly would use at least 1 / 8 ", this fork would need a lot of stiffness.

A hug and good luck.

Nov 17, 2011
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Maybe this!
by: Sam T

If you are needing an actual model completed on your hypothetical design, you could print out your design, and transfer it to graphpaper viva thin carbon paper tracing. It is not precise, but if you are careful, it can be a very close facsimilie!-Then construct a lost wax mold with 1/2 of your very precisely carved 3d model at a time, and combine them with precision.

Molten aluminium works great for this. Hope this is the question you were asking!

Nov 16, 2011
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hmm
by: samuel

im not sure if i got u right, but if the problom is how to do the strength simulation use solidworks or solidedge.

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