Solidworks V8 Engine

My 1st year Uni design project, took 50 hours to design, model and animate.
I hope you enjoy it.
Music courtesy of Kraftwerk.

System specs, AMD 3800 64 dual core, Nvidia FX 3400 SLI graphics.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Solidworks
• V8
• Engine

[sonicnofadz]

lol no one uses gear timing. Its either chain or belt. Rotational mass of the gears would be beyond excessive. BTW F1 doesn't use timing gears, they have been pneumatically operated for quite some time.

[snowygrouch]

@sonicnofadz

F1 engines are ALL timing gears, and actually the pheumatics are just to elimiate the valve coil springs, they still use cams with finger followers. Please do SOME research before posting rubbish.....oh dear.

[MrLestatto]

Funny and all (especially that idea to replace belts with gears), but, what's the point? I like to call such publications empty designs, they show nothing of value, save maybe for amuse of people who don't know anything about real engineering/manufacturing/desi­gning/however else you'd call it. CAD is not oracle to make shiny stuff, that's the tool to make professionals more efficient, it's useless without knowledge, and very wide one if you want to properly design actual engine, not just toy.

[snowygrouch]

I adore the crowds of expert engine designers who spend all their day leaving rude comments - so good they got their engines done before breakfast then treat themselves to some youtube for the rest of the day....I expect thats what they do at Cosworth.

Why use gears? Its all about 2 things, speeds and timing accuracy. If you use a belt you have to allow for innacuracy (its made of RUBBER) - hence valve lift is compromised. All F1 has been gears for 15years, belts also speed limited

[derda987]

@snowygrouch just a little careless writing his video description. But then I read some more of your comments like "All I can say is that perhaps I`m just MUCH MUCH better than you." and "Instead of spending your time writing rubbish I suggest you get studying!" And now I know. You're just an arrogant asshole. You didn't "forget" to write that you already had plenty of experience - you left that you on purpose because you knew that most people watching this would doubt their own abilities.

[snowygrouch]

@derda987

You were careless reading it, I had a couple of years in Autocad before my degree and thats it. I had perhaps 6months Solidworks before I made this model & video (my degree started in 2005, video posted early 2006). My experience with CATIA was long after this was finished - I havent used solidworks for well over 2 years now. The video is to show how you can make cool things in Solidworks....sorry if you confused hard work with arrogance.

[snowygrouch]

@Lamboragon

FYI Nobody uses PRO-E anymore, I`ve been using CATIA for several years. And yes its much better than Solidworks. Also FYI, have designed an (actual real) racing engine since that took 3 years to do - but in fact conceptually there is nothing that wouldnt work on that model (although its pretty obviosuly a quick concept - its patently impossible to a full mechanical design in that time. Also FYI, being rude will get you nowhere in life - "you should learn that".

[hoood]

im impressed. but, this as a FIRST year project? like year 1 of a degree? as in straight out of grammar school?????

i find that hard to believe......this seems more like a final year project or something!!!!!! you would certainly be lightyears ahead of any 1st year Mech engineers ive known!!!! in 1st year we were designing things 10 times simpler than this!

[S4T4NMINIONS666]

VERY COOL. As a mechanical engineer / autodesk inventor user-designer / backyard gearhead ....im DUELY impressed! 50 hrs!?!? I've only been using Inv for 2.25 years .... that blows me away! Wow. I might take a stab at an EMD 16-645 for kicks using v2012. I currently use 2008 and never having taken a class...I now see I need to LOL! Keep up the good work! >8)

[ROCKSOLID19]

That engine and this video is a masterpiece, I like to do something similar but in aviation.

I am currently on a p.h.d course in Electrical Engineering and afterwards I am going to do another engineering course in aviation. My father in law works for Rolls Royce in Derby as a designer.

[hussainsson]

How long it took for you to make it?

[twiggyzappa]

Wow that's amazing!

[Ibringthetruth1]

Solidworks harder to use than google Sketchup??

[lazzer408]

You ground your cams wrong. :P

[docstruthers]

don't listen to these fools on here.

the work put in is incredible.

the outcome is bad ass.

sure there are like 20 gears for timing but who cares!

it was your first engine let alone v8, correct?

high five!!

[lanegerrit]

By first year uni do you mean undergraduate?

How did you know CAD before you got to college? Did you do an internship, take a class, or learn it yourself?

[davidohyer]

There is an iPad app that lets you view solidworks models. Runs really fast and has measurements and solid cut planes. It's called iCAD Professional and it has a free demo version, iCAD Free.