Well. I'm not dead after all. Dunno about this blog however.
So here's the deal, got a job, a new place, a new car and things are good. Bad news? Yep there's some. A faulty power supply fried my computer in August of 2010. I lost everything. The annoying part is I did have a backup of everything including the FSAE and F1000 stuff. Well it was on another internal drive, and when I say everything got fried, I mean even the CD drives.
Yay new computer! Boo no more data. Turns out there are companies that specialize in recovering this stuff. $1300 later I was reunited with all my old data. Yup got it all back even the F1000 stuff. That was only for one drive though, the one with all the good stuff on it. All my programs like SolidWorks was lost though, so for the past 16 months I have not had access to my favorite CAD program, SolidWorks.
Lets go buy a copy then! I have a job now and could afford a few hundred dollar program right? Nopes. Turns out a single seat of SolidWorks is $15,000. Yup that's right kids, $15k. Fuck that.
Well here I am, doing other things and still thinking about F1000. Maybe I'll get back into it, but being busy with work and driving around in my new 2012 Mustang GT (did I mention that it has 412 hp? Its sweet...) as well as some other projects, it may take a few more months.
We shall see what happens.
I'll see ya when I see ya.
Showing posts with label SolidWorks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SolidWorks. Show all posts
Monday, December 12, 2011
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
FEA is Awesome
Hey guys, just a quick post for now.
I wanted to show you something about FEA that I think is just great. The whole idea of FEA or FEM is awesome, any engineer that has used a good program and gotten good results would probably agree with me.
Well SolidWorks has this new FEA and analysis addon that I have been poking around with. Check out this picture.
This is the suspension chocolate block that I was talking about a few posts ago. I actually did this a while ago with the intension of posting here. So as you can see there is a factor of safety of 2 for the piece in the way that I had loaded it. The actual loading would not be in this direction, but I generally check all cases and this one was interesting. I then decided to weld a end cap on the two ends there to help with the factor of safety, and look what I got.
The factor of safety is now 1.8 for this piece. I would have not guessed that it would lower with more support. Because I was able to analyze this before actually building it, I was able to avoid the posibility of lowering the strength of my suspension.
So I hope you can see why I am a huge fan of FEA/FEM and general order of magnitude. I think Jersey Tom talked about being a fan of ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) in one of his last posts. Well Jersey Tom, I totally agree with you.
Now that's about all I have, just wanted to share something cool with those readers out there.
I'll see ya when I see ya.
I wanted to show you something about FEA that I think is just great. The whole idea of FEA or FEM is awesome, any engineer that has used a good program and gotten good results would probably agree with me.
Well SolidWorks has this new FEA and analysis addon that I have been poking around with. Check out this picture.
This is the suspension chocolate block that I was talking about a few posts ago. I actually did this a while ago with the intension of posting here. So as you can see there is a factor of safety of 2 for the piece in the way that I had loaded it. The actual loading would not be in this direction, but I generally check all cases and this one was interesting. I then decided to weld a end cap on the two ends there to help with the factor of safety, and look what I got.
The factor of safety is now 1.8 for this piece. I would have not guessed that it would lower with more support. Because I was able to analyze this before actually building it, I was able to avoid the posibility of lowering the strength of my suspension.So I hope you can see why I am a huge fan of FEA/FEM and general order of magnitude. I think Jersey Tom talked about being a fan of ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) in one of his last posts. Well Jersey Tom, I totally agree with you.
Now that's about all I have, just wanted to share something cool with those readers out there.
I'll see ya when I see ya.
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