Metal Helmet Anyone?
 

http://www.gaskrank.tv/tv/motorrad-f...-cro-10963.htm


Pretty cool video to watch.

Very freakin cool.

Those multi axis cnc machines are incrediable!!!

Very heavy! But the technology is cool and it sure is pretty :dribble:

Wow, that was awesome! Except the part at around 2:00 where it looked like a giant industrial nose-picker.

that is realy cool to watch.

10-axis Swiss mill FTW! :rockwoot:

(Having programmed some 5-axis stuff before, that stuff blows my mind! :bowdown:)

Unreal. Wow.

cool!

great idea for a motorsport trophy.

That's wicked awesome... I wonder how long that took...

You mean to cut, or to design?

You could cut it in a few hours, the longest part is setting the pieces up and zeroing them in.

But to design in Autocad, probably weeks if you started from scratch

(imn a machinist by trade)

I wouldn't even want to think of producing that design/program in 2D Autocad! (Acad has limited wireframe capability, but still....)
That originated as a 3D solid-model fer sure.

Te newest versions of Autocad do support 3d modeling, and while there are better ones out there, it is still the most widely used, and most widely taught.

Yeah, Acad had supported 3D since v12 or so - it's what I used for my senior project in '93. 2D autocad drafting is still extremely popular, but I haven't seen it used for 3D in forever - Autodesk has pushed Inventor heavily to replace Mechanical Desktop (the acad 3D extension) for the last 8 years or so.

But it's not parametric modeling with complex-curve capability & all - and a major PITA comparatively. Hell, I can't even imagine doing that helmet with Inventor or SolidWorks - virtually all my stuff consists of simple shapes (it's the making them work part that's hard!).

10-axis? For the electrical engineer in the thread, is there an easy way to explain that on a forum? Anything over 3-axis (x/y/z) is a foreign concept to me.