How do they make these awesome drawings

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The discussion revolves around the creation of technical diagrams and the software used for such designs. Participants express admiration for a specific carburetor diagram and inquire about the tools needed to create similar illustrations. CAD programs like SolidWorks, AutoCAD, and Pro-Engineer are frequently mentioned as suitable options for producing detailed mechanical drawings with dimensions. The conversation highlights the capabilities of these programs, including stress analysis and 3D modeling, and contrasts them with simpler hand-drawn methods. Several users share their experiences with different software, showcasing their own designs and discussing the artistic and engineering aspects of technical drawings. The dialogue also touches on the evolution of design practices, noting a nostalgic appreciation for traditional hand-drawn engineering art, which some believe is becoming a lost skill in the digital age. Overall, the thread emphasizes the blend of creativity and technical precision in modern design work.
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http://www.redlinepro.com/images/carb-diagram.jpg

That looks cool! I want to draw something like that for something I want to build for something i want to do with a certain something for something something. SOMETHING!

How do they draw those kinda diagrams? Are there programs that can do that pretty easily?
 
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That looks like it could be made with a CAD program, like SolidWorks or AutoCAD maybe?
 
Jelfish said:
That looks like it could be made with a CAD program, like SolidWorks or AutoCAD maybe?
A friend of mine does incredible designs and I think it's a CAD program. I could ask.

He also does 3D designs that are just awesome.
 
What was so impressive about that? One could draw that by hand in about fifteen minutes and scan it if it must be digital.
 
loseyourname said:
What was so impressive about that? One could draw that by hand in about fifteen minutes and scan it if it must be digital.

yah if your some sort of genius super computerized hand face!

I want to make some mechanical drawings with actual dimensions and crap
 
loseyourname said:
What was so impressive about that? One could draw that by hand in about fifteen minutes and scan it if it must be digital.
I have a couple of my friend's designs, about 40MB ea, but they're beautiful, yes the ones Pengwuino shows are very simple.
 
That looks super crappy, I can't believe you are actually finding it decent
 
cronxeh said:
That looks super crappy, I can't believe you are actually finding it decent

i couldn't find a better image on google :P
 
Pengwuino said:
i couldn't find a better image on google :P

pffbt did u even see the stuff i doodled in solidedge back when i was building my inflatable boat with outboard electric engine? oh yeah that time!

http://www.imag.us/x/cronx/boat.JPG
 
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oooo cool :P
 
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So, haughty Russian draftsman, why are your drawings any better than the one the short waddling bird linked to?
 
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zoobyshoe said:
So, haughty Russian draftsman, why are your drawings any better than the one the short waddling bird linked to?

oo.. in his voice I heard decay! Bring it on pops! :biggrin:

First of all, its 3 dimensionsal. It has a scale. Its engineering-grade. Its all in purdy colours. And finally, its 3D!
 
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Ok, here are some of the drawings my friend did. Enlarge it to see it clearer.
 

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Also these
 

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Evo said:
Ok, here are some of the drawings my friend did. Enlarge it to see it clearer.

whoa! sextacular!

I wonder what kinda program you would need to make actual mechanical motion...
 
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Pengwuino said:
whoa! sextacular!

I wonder what kinda program you would need to make actual mechanical motion...
He does it all, these are actually very large advertising posters, so you can't tell how awesome they are. He creates films of the stuff, not much he can't do. Wish I could show you all of it.
 
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It's called photoshop :rolleyes:
 
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yomamma said:
It's called photoshop :rolleyes:
No, he builds the models electronically. I'll ask what the design software is. He was an architect turned construction engineer turned software engineer. He owns a mulit media advertising agency and does these adds.
 
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Pro-Engineer and Pro-Mechanica
 
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Evo said:
No, he builds the models electronically. I'll ask what the design software is. He was an architect turned construction engineer turned software engineer. He owns a mulit media advertising agency and does these adds.


Woudl he happen to possibly know how to make a... ohh... i dunno... pneumatic rapid-fire egg launching gun? :rolleyes:
 
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Nice drawings are great an all, but so what. If you want something really neat, then it will calculate stresses, strains and other important information for you as well.

What is that second pic Ouabache? I'm guessing a weather sensing instrument, land based?
 
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Holy jesus those are sweet as hell pictures! I wonder how long they took to make though!
 
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you desperately need ps2 and/or X-box...
i heard that these are made by "3DMAX". other diagrams can be made by "autocad" (like house water pipe designs). if you want mathematical figures and atomic structure simulation types you have "Python".
if you want to have a calculator that works or chess type games you can use Vsual Basic...

check out these...{from tekken (japanese world famous game)}
http://www2.hh.se/staff/saag/GameWallpapers/Tekken%203.jpg
http://www.ps3power.com/images/games/tekken.jpg
http://www.screensavershot.com/animation/tekken.jpg
http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/Playstation2/tekken-5/tekken-5-2.jpg
http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Games%20Zone/Images/Tekken5_big2.jpg
and my favourite game Tactical Ops-Assault OnTerror
http://www.igrograd.com.ua/images/TacticalOPS/TactikalOps02.jpg
http://www.to-crossfire.net/files/images/050915shot2.jpg
Shot0008.jpg
 
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________ those graphics are a misrepresentation. The game play graphics are horrid compared to the those pre-game 'video' shots. The new x-box 360, now THOSE graphics are AS GOOD in game play as the video. That thing is scary cool.
 
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The program you'd traditionally use to model things very exactly according to dimensions is AutoCad or any CAD program. 3DSMax is probably more than you need unless you trying do some serious animation or game.
 
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We use Pro Engineer Wildfire for all our design work, but I've used SolidWorks and AutoCAD in the past and they can do the job reasonably well too. That drawing of a carb would take about 20 minutes to do in ProE given a bit of practice.

I wish I could share with you our engine assembly drawings, - you just select which systems you want to display, and it puts them in pretty colours for you to view from any angle you like. Considering each part can take days to model, and there's tens of thousands of parts, they're quite impressive things.
 
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cyrusabdollahi said:
Nice drawings are great an all, but so what. If you want something really neat, then it will calculate stresses, strains and other important information for you as well.
What is that second pic Ouabache? I'm guessing a weather sensing instrument, land based?

Solidworks can test stress and strain. You can even make animations to show how an object will react to weight placed on a certain point and such.
 
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Wow. A bunch of physics geeks talking about big boy engineering tools. I'm impressed.
 
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those graphics are a misrepresentation. The game play graphics are horrid compared to the those pre-game 'video' shots. The new x-box 360, now THOSE graphics are AS GOOD in game play as the video. That thing is scary cool.
Horrid? Depends on your computer, game and settings. I play Halo on my (5 year old) iMac. I put textures and particles on high like two months ago, it is SOOOOO beautiful! My old iMac's not good enough for America's Army—its graphics look pretty nice.

But yeah, the pre-game shots aren't as good, unless they're screenshots of betas that you see.
 
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cronxeh said:
pffbt did u even see the stuff i doodled in solidedge back when i was building my inflatable boat with outboard electric engine? oh yeah that time!
http://www.imag.us/x/cronx/boat.JPG

Here, I took the liberty of sprucing it up a little for you:

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/boat2.jpg
 
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Pengwuino said:
Woudl he happen to possibly know how to make a... ohh... i dunno... pneumatic rapid-fire egg launching gun? :rolleyes:
If you want pretty pictures here's your egg projectile done with Bryce in about 2 minutes.
egg.jpg
 
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Bryce won't let you do any real cad work though, it's just pretty.
3DsMax is my favorite for stuff like that, it has a bit of a learning curve though, so don't expect instant coolness. Bryce can be learned in 30 minutes
 
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Janus said:
Here, I took the liberty of sprucing it up a little for you:
http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/boat2.jpg

Sweet :approve:

Except its a PVC inflatable boat.. but still sweet I like the wooden finish hehe

I was actually running load stress analysis on this model to test just how much HP it could handle
 
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is it a boat or a bathtub?
 
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tribdog said:
is it a boat or a bathtub?

cant it be both? :frown:
 
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you may have found your niche
 
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Here's one I did a while back. It's a cut-away view of an apparatus used to make liquid air, circa 1910.

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/airpump.jpg
 
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Awww i want to amke stuff like that :(
 
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Renderings are nice and all, especially for marketing purposes, bit reaally do not provide much engineering worth. I wish I could post some of our stuff...
 
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FredGarvin said:
Renderings are nice and all, especially for marketing purposes, bit reaally do not provide much engineering worth. I wish I could post some of our stuff...

Granted, but in my case it is purely a hobby and not intended for any practical purpose.
 
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FredGarvin said:
Renderings are nice and all, especially for marketing purposes, bit reaally do not provide much engineering worth. I wish I could post some of our stuff...


At university, we had a series of original drawings for the Rolls Royce Trent 600 engines. They were all hand-drawn, and utterly beautiful, particularly the oblique cutaway projections. The detail and quality was phenomenal, when you consider that some chap had spent months pouring over a drawing board constructing lines to do each individual compressor blade, they were stunning.

Sadly, none of the stuff we do is quite as evocative of bespectacled chaps in a back room in the midlands in tweed jackets smoking a pipe, but I feel a bit bad that I can't really share it!
 
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cronxeh said:
Sweet :approve:
Except its a PVC inflatable boat.. but still sweet I like the wooden finish hehe

Ah, maybe somthing more like this?

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/boat3.jpg
 
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Janus said:
Ah, maybe somthing more like this?
http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/boat3.jpg
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Excellent! :!)
 
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Pengwuino said:
Awww i want to amke stuff like that :(

Well, all you need is the right program and be able to something like this:
:rolleyes:

(The attachment is the text file for the second boat image.)
 

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Pengwuino said:
Woudl he happen to possibly know how to make a... ohh... i dunno... pneumatic rapid-fire egg launching gun? :rolleyes:
Doesn't everyone? :rolleyes:

Janus said:
Here, I took the liberty of sprucing it up a little for you:
Are you sure about that? :confused:
Looks more like rosewood to me.
 
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brewnog said:
At university, we had a series of original drawings for the Rolls Royce Trent 600 engines. They were all hand-drawn, and utterly beautiful, particularly the oblique cutaway projections. The detail and quality was phenomenal, when you consider that some chap had spent months pouring over a drawing board constructing lines to do each individual compressor blade, they were stunning.
Sadly, none of the stuff we do is quite as evocative of bespectacled chaps in a back room in the midlands in tweed jackets smoking a pipe, but I feel a bit bad that I can't really share it!
I hear ya. I have seen many an old time ink drawing like you mentioned. Back then they let an engineering/technical artist (as I have been told they were called) take the time to sit down and and create and make it look beautiful. The ones I have seen are simply fantastic. I have seen piping drawings that made things like pipes and fittings look fantastic. I think old aircraft companys were the best at it for some reason. It is going to become a lost artform in the very near future.
 

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