Rendered Crankcase

I picked this up while researching some new software at work. Anyone recognize it and can tell me which company and the software they may have used?

Would Guess it's a Tigre G-21 because the venturi looks to be offset from the center of the crank????

Looks like an OS FX and done in Autocad Inventor.

>I picked this up while researching some new software at
>work. Anyone recognize it and can tell me which company and
>the software they may have used?

What ever software was used it's cool.

Late style ST G 21/46. Absolutely NO CLUE as to the software.
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Tom, I use Turbocad Professional which is capable of both 2D and 3D modeling. Result look identical to what you see. The software is not as expensive as Autocad but has most of the same 2D features for normal drafting.

I paid around $99.00 direct from IMSI. I've seen the older versions, current release is 10.5, going for around $20.00 to $70.00 on the bay. It's well supported and has a help and tips forum. Like all 3D programs, it has a long learning curve.

There are three "strengths" offered - Designer, Deluxe and Proffessional. I would start with designer to see if you really want to spend the time that 3D stuff takes.

Here it is on the bay for $19.95.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3771&item=7117823699&rd=1

Here's IMSI's website. They have a trial download available.

http://www.turbocad.com/prodinfo.asp?mcid=259

By the way - they should have used more castor in the fuel!

Thanks for the kind responses, but I guess I wasn't specific enough. The rendering of the engine was used in an example for CFD. So I thought that at the very least, it had been developed from some similar software, or maybe an FEA package. It was interesting to find out that a model company might be using some pretty sophisticated stuff. I'd like to find out which company, so that I can contact them with specific questions. I'm actually shopping for CFD software, not CAD.

Here's a good CAD conversation I've participated in lately:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_2366688/anchors_2406318/mpage_1/key_/anchor/tm.htm#2406318

My guess is it's an O.S. or similar clone, from exhaust stack shape and possible schnuerle ports.

Mastercam

>Mastercam
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What's Mastercam? Is that a manufacturing package - prototype to fabrication - that sort of thing?

Tom,

This could be rendered from any number of 3D software packages. 3D Studio, Lightwave, ProE, Solidworks or even AutoCad 3D. It's hard to tell without the source of the image being specified by the vendor.

I agree. If the image came from any private individual, you are absolutely correct.

It's just that a "sample" image used in marketing must have a known source, and I thought perhaps someone would recognize it. It is a model airplane engine, after all, and you don't see that often (if at all) outside our little community.

It reminds me of an illustration long ago from Design Cad, which I thought might be related to Turbo Cad. They had a couple of model airplane engine rendering in their promotional stuff..

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"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it." -John Masefield

Unigrapgics, less then 2 hours work

Hello.

I'm working with Solidworks and I developed my own Engine with the help of this software. It is a 1.5ccm Diesel (0.9cuin) for european 1/2A events.
The cylinder is integral, like the latest russian TR-engines.
It was a lot of fun to design my own engine and it was very easy too!

Wow. Very impressive, Frank!

3D CAD software is really something nowadays. I've seen some low cost packages (~$1300) which promise photo quality 3D rendering. Isn't Solid Works about $4K?

What are your recommendations and observations?

Best regards,

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Aibohphobia: the fear of palindromes.

Hello.

If you realy want a "legal" version, 4,000$ - 6,000$ is about what you will have to spend!
But if I recall right, SolidWorks offers cheaper versions for Studends!
I have tried a lot of diffrent CAD software, including AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, ProE and CATIA. I would say, Solidworks, yet being one of the cheapest systems, is one of the best of all of these systems. I'm currently working with SW2005 SP0.1 (SolidWorks 2005 ServicePack 0.1), but I would say a studentversion of SW2001 is more than enought to design a modelengine or a 3D Model of a Stuntairplane. But make sure, that you always run the latest servicepack!
Such a SW2001 studentedition would be about 100$ and it is very easy to use in comparison to other systems like AutoCAD and ProE. Even for people without CAD experiance!

WOW! That's very impressive. I have heard, though, that SolidWorks has a problem with trying to port results like that into an industry-acceptable 2D drawing sheet.

I have some experience of proper drafting with solidworks and have no problems creating high quality drawings. I seem to have to do fewer workarounds compared with Pro/E or Pro/Desktop.

Thanks! It was a bit of work, I have to admit!

I have never experienced such problems! Making nice drawings is very easy! It is possible to export the 2D drawing to dxf or dwg and SolidWorks offers a tool called e-drawings. It allows to publish 2D and 3D files that can't be modified but can be displayed and printed on any computer. Even if there is no SolidWorks or e-drawings installed! Almost like a PDF-file! -VERY NEAT!!-

>Unigrapgics, less then 2 hours work

Where did you get Unigraphics?

www.mastercam.com

This guy used Turbocad. The parts can be assembled and disassembled.

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Some of his other stuff. Nice Work

http://www.geocities.com/penningtonj.geo/caddrawings.html

For parts and assemblies, I use a piont and click drawing program called Dia. It's not a CAD program per se, but just a simple drawing program. Has some amenities such as various types of snaps, rulers and some fairly complex polyline abilities, but it's very easy to use and takes almost no knowledge to start using it. Just draw with the mouse using line, ellipse, circle, box and polyline functions.

For someone that is a CAD idiot like me, it's very easy to learn and get comfortable with using a computer to draw with. I'm slowly learning IntelliCAD and can do some simple drawings, but Dia is much quicker and easier to use. I don't think I'd try to do a set of plans with it (though I suppose you could), but for designing assemblies and such, it's pretty cool.