CAD work.....few bits

I work in the drawing office that does all the drawings for these little beauties


That one is a 112 metre ferry which is now operating in Japan for Higashi Nihon and it is called Natchan Rera.
I came here to work when that one was nearly finished but now the next one is over 50 metres long and built up to the second vehicle deck. It should be ready to launch at the end of the year.

We use AutoCAD 2009 which is a LOT better than the 2007 version I learned on , and the 2008 version we had when I came here.
We used to use CADkey but that sucks!
I have to know how to use it, because all of our old drawings are in that format.

Here are a fwe of the 3D AutoCAD projects I did at technical college.





And here are a couple of things I did as projects in 3D Parametric, using Autodesk Inventor which is a great program.
The funny looking item is a sear for a crossbow mechanism which I made some years ago, and the engine was my major project.
I have an animated video of it, and a video of it exploding into all its parts, but I can't get them to upload on here




most of what I do at work is revisions of 2D stuff, but occaisionally some 3D stuff comes along.
they use Rhino for most of the modelling work.
They also have Femap for structural analysis.

I have nothing to show, but I work for Buro Happold, our engineers have some of the coolest software toys to play with

The Autocad geeks might be interested to know we're doing some stuff with Revit now days, which is pretty cool.

As a systems geek I've never got into individual software but was intrigued by celicav8's renderings and designs for parts he needed - would rhino be sufficient for that, or catia the best bet?
I'm looking at a MAJOR job on the GT6 rebuild so would like to play with ideas in the virtual world and then have 'em made up.

Opinions welcome, I don't mind taking the time to learn - but need to know where to start.

Thanks

John

Just been playing on that sketchup, it's good. Very basic but straightforward.

hi, ve been playing with google sketchup for a few weeks but want somthing more organic to work with for architecture and car modeling*eventaully, I'm not terribly good yet* any ore recomend anything?

hey i know this threads been dead a few weeks but iva been plying with cars in the pittiful sketchup *not making modifing other poples work* and produced this boso masterpiece



ive not changed much thinking bout it lol, exhaust, wheels, oil cooler *with obligatory 1 piece looped hose*, 10 degrees of camber on the back 5 on the front.





those wheels are a pain in the ar$e to build in sketchup you wouldent belive, took me about 3 hours of work to do the whole thing and 50% was on the wheels. oh and apologies for the miss matched bumper :S dunno what went on there

That's very cool! What program are you using? It's been a very long time since I last did car bodywork

I really need to upload my final bit of work i did for uni.

We were told to create a game intro video, so it was a mass of drifting cars etc LOL all done in 3D Studio Max, love that prog.

yeah, I havent gotten into complex surfacing yet either, will have to give it a shot sometime. were all those renderings just in photoworks?