Posted by martin kopplow on November 3, 2010 at 9:06am
There is a video on Discovery Channel, aired about two days ago in Canada, where you can see me using Spaceclaim
while commenting on some technical stuff related to a recent project, the Volkswagen "Bik.e" electric bike, which I did
in Spaceclaim.
Reply by Willem Wagelaar on November 3, 2010 at 10:50am
Way to go Martin, keep up the good work!!!
Reply by Anssi Mustonen on November 3, 2010 at 1:06pm
Nice job! Wondering where was the helmet :)?
Was the spaceclaim "right" software for design project?
Reply by martin kopplow on November 4, 2010 at 1:21am
Thank you, Willem,
Anssi, fortunately you don't need a helmet for this kind of bike. It will be limited to 20km/h (or whatever applicable in
the target market) for road use, though It can actually go up to 60km/h, which is more fun, of course.
Spaceclaim was the right software, yes, as this project included a lot of conceptual work, so I would not have been
able to use the power of a history based system very often while the flexibility of direct modeling was an advantage
every day. I have been working with someone who runs AutoStudio and the most of surface work was done there, then
everything was joined and modified in Spaceclaim, where also all the engineering was done, and from there via Schott
Systeme CAM to production.
Data was exported to Catia for documentation and car integration in the end.
Renderings with Alias and KeyShot.
After this project, the top of my Spaceclaim wish list looks somewhat like this:
- Configurations: I need the option to store multiple positions of a component (say folded/unfolded) and activate it by a
single mouse klick.
- "Treat as one Part in BOM" option, where an assembly which is bought as one part isn't broken down to its bits and
pieces in the BOM (E.G. Ball bearing: You don't need all the balls in the BOM!).
- Improved "blend along guide curves" option for the pull tool.
- There is sure more but these are the ones that come to my mind first.
Martin