Car body design

jack_heslin

Hello All,

Fairly recent Onshape user here. I've been going through the tutorials and getting more proficient with the OnShape platform. Truly enjoying the experience. However there is something I've been looking for and haven't found it yet. If I wanted to design or modify a car / auto body design, are there tutorials for that? For standard geometric designs OnShape is great but when looking at the curves and contours of a car, how the hood slopes down from the windshield, how the front quarter panels are contoured at the top, bottom and front for example, are there any videos on that? 

Thanks very much,

Jack

tony_459

You can probably model some auto body surfaces, but these can have very organic contours and are not trivial to model in Onshape.

Look up class-A surfaces. Those take special CAD tools built on a different modeling paradigm just for class-A surfaces. I forget the details. I think ICEM is one of those CAD tools? CATIA is another, I think. All are very expensive.

This is not a complaint about Onshape. Every tool does well only in its domain, and it fails when you try go over the bounds of what it was designed to do. I could be wrong, but I don't think Onshape was made for A-class surfaces? I would love to be wrong.

Still, you can probably model very organic surfaces and make a realistic car from them... I just think you'll be at the very edge of what Onshape can handle and you might have to compromise some...?

steve_shubin

@jack_heslin

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/14782/im-a-jr-in-high-school-doing-a-public-project-but-i-dont-know-how-to-make-smooth-complex-surfaces

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/14911/hi-its-josh-again-i-wanted-to-thank-those-who-told-me-about-the-surface-modeling-classes