TurboCAD Drawing: Radial Engine w/ Progression samples

Donnie

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This shows the progress being make like a build log.

2D Profiles created then extruded or revolved.

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That is basically what I have started doing is just draw like a box or a cylinder and start putting holes in it and subtracting and adding parts. That is what I did on that mechanical jig (which is just made up).

On the other note about sharing drawings. That is a good idea. The only thing is that there are several different ways of "presenting" the drawing. It can be done as a pure technical drawing with dimensions, or it can be done like "an illustration" that shows a basic 3D drawing - no dims to give the builder a sense of what the final part should look like.

If I have time, I will try and demo what I am talking about.
 
ok, you guys. Back to my build log of the Engine !!! Continuation. Starting 2D profiles for pushrods, rocker arms, etc.

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Finalizing the Tappets and placing them correctly as well as the flywheel.

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It is very interesting to see element by element growing and at the end together a motor....very interesting
 
I am in the process now of adding "Materials" such as Chrome in the image. The cam, crankcase and a few other parts are shown. The next image below is the same object, however, to mimic Solid Works, TurboCAD has an option in the rendering to allow line edges to be shown.

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Donnie, is the course you're going through one provided with the software or is it something separate and not specific to TurboCAD?

Bob
 
Short answer: No, the course is not part of the software. It is separate purchased tutorial from Don Cheke of Textual Creations and was written for TurboCAD pro Platinum users only.

You can purchase "Training Bundles" from IMSI design (turbocad.com) and they are fairly good. But this tutorial is seriously advanced.

Bob, I would like to be more specific on this. Ok, I am following along a 380 page written tutorial that literally instructs you step by step and click by click with images, screen shots of how to do every move and action. You might think that 380 pages is long, but in reality it is not.

The tutorial was developed and written by Don Cheke of www.textualcreations.ca. He also has some online videos of things you can follow along. This particular tutorial (if I remember was about $44) and is well worth it. About the time you finish you will have learned much more than what is basically offered from IMSI TurboCAD manual. Even though I have learned a lot from the manual, this guy is a professional and instructs on the way the program should be operated. So, yes, the tutorial is written for TurboCAD Pro specific. Don Cheke starts out every one of this tutorials of how to set up your software interface configuration.

All CAD has a learning curve. Alot of people have complained about TC being difficult. They stay with Autocad or other products. However, when people take the time to learn TC, then when they try to go back to AutoCAD, they usually say that AutoCAD is too long of a process to do the same thing in TC. In other words, TC shortens the process by offering many tools. I realize that AutoCAD is basically the industry accepted standard, but I do not have the resources (money) for it and all the plug ins. Now, I have learned that AutoDesk is now subscription based only.

The MAIN things between the lesser expensive Deluxe version at $129 and the Pro Platinum at $1400 is that the Pro P has 3D tools that perform advanced manipulation of objects. Like 3D slice, 3D polylines, 3D fillets, 3D Chamfers, Lofting (from one shape to another shape). Shelling out a solid object. 3D sweeps of 2D objects. and the list goes on of things that I haven't even touched the surface on.

I was very fortunate that my agency purchased TC pro Platinum for me to use at my office on a daily basis. I also might add the the only Add-On that I purchased was the "Lightworks" rendering engine, but it was only $69 if I remember.

I hope this answers your questions.
 
I checked for the Mac version of TC Pro Platinum and it's only $500.00. https://www.turbocad.com/turbocad-m...MIz7v9lIn-2QIV3oSzCh302QD7EAAYASAAEgKz1_D_BwE
I've been working with Fusion 360 lately. It does all the things you said TC Pro can do but huge learning curve. Udemy has some video lessons and a number of them are free. They just teach basic stuff.

If business were a little better, I might spring for TC Pro for Mac but I'm not even sure it's got the same features as the Windows version.

Thanks for the explanatiion,

Bob
 
Yeah, I downloaded the free trial and was very disappointed. Simple interface, nothing like the Windows version. Even less useful than AutoCAD. I think I'll stick with Fusion 360. It's very powerful and once you learn the interface, it becomes much easier to work with.

Bob
 
Ok, here is the final. About 3 weeks worth of drawing and 1 to 2 hours each session.

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This is "Draft" mode view.

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Pretty amazing stuff Donnie. Great job. Do you think you could do it again but without the lesson plan?

Bob
 
Hi Donnie,
Will the software do an exploded view of the model automatically?
Mike
 
Bob,
I probably could, but it would *not* look like a Radial Engine --- LOL Even the Author of the project said that he had to "think through" the problem for a while before he started to see how to approach such a task. A lot of it is really based on 2D modeling first. About 80% of everything is a "revolved" 2D surface. However, a lot of pre thinking I am sure went into this. I like the fact that the author told me how to make edge outlines to look and act just like Solid Works with just two check marks done in the rendering is all you need.
Also, I might add that for my machine and the authors machine, it takes 3 1/2 minutes for the full 3D (with materials) to render completely.

In order to speed this up, a person would have to invest in the Quadro 4000 or up line of GPUs - that alone is about $1800
 
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