Kurt
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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
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so some guy draws a new concept for a car... how does it go from being to reality... well actually i only want to know one part really..
pretty much how do they design where all the screws, trims, wires etc go?
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Now days it's all done using CAD. The car designer will draw a concept car, then engineers will have already designed a platform (chassis) for the body to be built onto so the case is for the people doing the 3D modelling to take the concept drawing through various phases until they come up with a way of fitting it onto the platform. Wihthe CAD software they can design the wiring looms and route them trhought the vehicle in the best way. A lot of the parts used will be standardised parts too, for example the seats will usually be designed and supplied by a different company like Recaro. The transmission will be designed and built by another company too like ZF Lemforder. These companys will supply the car companys wil CAD models so they can build the car on computer...
Through out the stages there will be prototyping of various different parts to test them, and i'm not sure if they still build full scale clay models of cars any more, but wouldn't be supprised if they did so they could mock something up to test the aesthetics of the thing. The crash structures can also be tested on computer, but there is no substitute at all to real world testing.
So basicly, the reason why even cheap cars can be so well designed is because of CAD, and not to mention more advanced manufacturing techniques too...
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