Looking to draw up the bike in solidworks for additional design ideas/modifications. Since the bike is 40 years old, do blueprints exist? Ive seen the simple dimensional drawings from the work manuals, but they look to be for checking the frame positions, I was hoping for alittle more. I have seen a frame or 2 on CAD sites, but I am unsure of how accurate they are. Really wish I had a Faro arm available.
Dimension blueprints of frames, parts etc?
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Hope this will get ya stsrted!
Vulin said:
Im guessing that they may be my models you came across on grabcad, the frame was made from the drawing in the manual with a few additional measurements off my frame so not particularly accurate. What might be of more interest though, I did see on here a picture or maybe a PDF scan of a magazine article possibly about the commando frame and the background looked like it may have been the proper drawings for the frame, I thought I had saved it but cant seem to find it
Vulin said:
I was in the middle of replying to your pm but my 2 year old woke up from her afternoon sleep. I did manage to find the models which I havent touched for a couple of years, they are in SW 2010, the frame was done as a surface so it has no thickness, all the modeling is pretty messy as well, if you send me your email I might be able to zip it all and send it to you in its native format.
Bwolfie, I have done the front engine mount but not the gearbox cradle, the actual modeling of these bits is simpler than drawing them on paper, the problem is measuring it in the first place
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Youd just make paper templates of them / patterns even . Lay thin cardboard on. Useing accurate bean cans to cut around with a scalpel ( from the hobby store ) so the tubes are dead accurate .
A domed thing about 10 mm or 1/2 in dia. ( pencil blunt end ) to depress & catch true hole edges sharply . Run around all the edges - one way or another . Then the silly - at the Print Shop can
SCAN IT onto the electrons & suchlike , as they do .
It gives a REAL plan , one DRAWN with squares & triangle & curves & rulers , as theyve done for thousands of years , compatability with the new fangled computer geeks efforts . Tragically .
A domed thing about 10 mm or 1/2 in dia. ( pencil blunt end ) to depress & catch true hole edges sharply . Run around all the edges - one way or another . Then the silly - at the Print Shop can
SCAN IT onto the electrons & suchlike , as they do .
It gives a REAL plan , one DRAWN with squares & triangle & curves & rulers , as theyve done for thousands of years , compatability with the new fangled computer geeks efforts . Tragically .
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grandpaul said:
No measurements with ref. to drawing dimensions that I recall. You're right, the whole point about "Worlds Straightest...." was because you could not assume that anything was as it should have been, especially swingarm to steering head axes.
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