‘car body design’

Car Design Goes Off-Road with SolidWorks for the ICON CJ3B

23 Sep, 2009 by in DESIGN

We just know how you love to climb into a steel barrel or tractor tire and roll yourself down a steep, rocky crevasse. Ahhhh, the small joys and severe skull fractures of life.

There are actually better ways to navigate the rough and tumble terrain you adore. One of those would be a very large truck with very large wheels and a mean suspension. Even better, it could look way old school and also be designed in SolidWorks. Guess what? That’s exactly what ICON 4×4 builds. Their latest creation? The CJ3B.

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Kirkham Motorsports Creates THE High Octane, Aluminum Roadster of Your Dreams

21 Sep, 2009 by in DESIGN

Hold onto your highly polished, aluminum chassis car buffs. One of the most incredible stories of car design and engineering has just rolled onto your screen. Think of this.

What if you were building a roaster, a custom roadster for the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison. What if money was no option. What if you used SolidWorks to virtually optimize every inch of it. What if you wrote a book about the design and manufacturing. That’s exactly what David Kirkham did.

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8 Pounds of Buttery Car Modeling Tutorials Comin’ atacha

10 Sep, 2009 by in RESOURCES

It’s not much of a surprise, ya think? The poll last week asking “If You Could Design Anything With 3D, What Would It Be?” did in fact show that approximately 30% would love to hunker down for a nice evening of modeling vehicles in 3D.

And by pure coincidence the very next post was a teaser for a How to Model an Audi R8 using SolidWorks. Pure coincidence, I swear. So, until the time that becomes available, I thought I’d gather some resources to help out with your swelling interest in car and vehicle design.

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