How do they make these awesome drawings

[Pengwuino]

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?

 

[Jelfish]

That looks like it could be made with a CAD program, like SolidWorks or AutoCAD maybe?

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[loseyourname]

What was so impressive about that? One could draw that by hand in about fifteen minutes and scan it if it must be digital.

 

[Pengwuino]

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

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[cronxeh]

That looks super crappy, I can't believe you are actually finding it decent

 

[Pengwuino]

That looks super crappy, I can't believe you are actually finding it decent

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

 

[cronxeh]

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

 

[Pengwuino]

oooo cool :P

 

[zoobyshoe]

So, haughty Russian draftsman, why are your drawings any better than the one the short waddling bird linked to?

 

[cronxeh]

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!

First of all, its 3 dimensionsal. It has a scale. Its engineering-grade. Its all in purdy colours. And finally, its 3D!

 

[Evo]

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

 

[Evo]

Also these

 

[Pengwuino]

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...

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[JamesU]

It's called photoshop

 

[Evo]

It's called photoshop

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.

 

[Physics_wiz]

Pro-Engineer and Pro-Mechanica

 

[Pengwuino]

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?

 

[Physics_wiz]

Google image search pro engineer.
http://images.google.com/images?q=pro+engineer&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

 

[Ouabache]

SolidWorks does an awesome job with this sort of mechanical drawing. (Jelfish also mentioned this one). It probably is a bit overkill for your drawing. But here are the possibilities
drawing01
http://www.axemble.com/upload/produits/23-logo2.jpg
They can also be drawn with animation. Here are some http://www.solidworks.com/pages/products/SolidWorksAnimatorSamples.html?pid=83

 

[Cyrus]

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?

 

[Pengwuino]

Holy jesus those are sweet as hell pictures! I wonder how long they took to make though!

 

[Mk]

Here's two from Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wwer-1000-scheme.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Four_stroke_cycle_compression.jpg

I thought they were pretty sweet. I especially like the Russian nuclear reactor design. Well, I'm partial to that kind of thing. They don't beat Ouabache's SeaDoo though. That's awesome.

 

[___]

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

 

[Mk]

Yeah, 3DMax is pretty awesome for doing... 3D stuff. Bryce programs too. For computer-game modding, you use 3DMax usually.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=5659302&siteID=123112
http://bryce.daz3d.com/55index.php

 

[Cyrus]

________ 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.

 

[-Job-]

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.

 

[brewnog]

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.

 

[Jelfish]

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.

 

[FredGarvin]

Wow. A bunch of physics geeks talking about big boy engineering tools. I'm impressed.

 

[Mk]

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.

 

[Janus]

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

 

[tribdog]

Woudl he happen to possibly know how to make a... ohh... i dunno... pneumatic rapid-fire egg launching gun?

If you want pretty pictures here's your egg projectile done with Bryce in about 2 minutes.