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Freaking awesome steering wheel.
I looked into decals, you can only do them in parts. You cant do them in assemblies.

Rendering with polycarb can be difficult due to the lighting. You can change the material […]

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As far as CFD, check out Reddit.com. I know theres a subreddit for CFD and they may be able to help you on there. I cant get to reddit at my school so I cant get you a link though.

And when I […]

@Guilherme Annoyingly I’m still at my school, and they apparently block just the images from this site, so I cant see the progress you’ve made, but will check it tonight.

as far as the book goes…find a 2012 […]

Just looked at your link to Mclaren electronics. First off, they say the front material is polycarb, so I would make the clear out of that.
Secondly, I just realized they had full working drawings of the […]

@Guilherme to make the transluent part, just make a piece that would go over it, make the material to be polycarbonate or some other clear material, (acrylic, glass, or so on, although polycarbonate is probably […]

@Guilherme Holy crap. My school year started recently so I’ve been busy dealing with my students and havent been able to reply to you, but I wish I saw this sooner. This is impressive for someone who’s been […]

Also, you said that the brake duct was challenging for you. It looks really good though so it seems that you figured it out. What tools did you use though to get it looking so good?

Wow thats a lot of progress since I last checked on this thread. Nice work.
Annoyingly I’m doing some extremely intensive training for work for the next few weeks, and so have no time to do anything for myself […]

Wow. Those wheels are amazing I love the subtle curves in the body of the wheel. You’re definitely learning Inventor extremely quickly!

@Guilherme Inventor is extremely different from AutoCAD. Its a totally different environment designed for more fluid 3D design. Autodesk has some great tutorials on how to do everything from super basic projects […]

I’ve been reading f1fanatic for a couple of years now, but have had no real push to create an account and comment on anything until I saw this.

as a big CAD fan and as a high school CAD teacher, I gotta say […]