Any and all of it in detail would be awesome.

What was the magic wand you used at the start? Where to buy, how much etc. I can handle the CAD part of it, designing brake brackets and other features, but the easiest thing for me to do is simply have bosses floating in 3D with no visualisation of the casting

@@rossmarzano it’s a Creality CR-scan Lizard 3D scanner. Available everywhere it think for about 4-500dollars? It’s a great tool for the money, but the consumer market is growing for these and RevoPoint do a load of different ones with different specialisations, but all of these are consumer end and imperfect. The proper scanners are Pro items and cost thousands. You’re dead right, all I really need for this part are the interaction points (bolt holes/machines faces) but for reasons that’ll be obvious in the next videos I wanted a full model of this part….

What?? All of them???😂

@@rossmarzano revopoint pop 3d is currently on sale for $399 on their website.

It starts with flowers….. 😂😂😂

Honey, we need this car for the purpose of teaching us all defensive driving. It's important that you follow my lead and I will make sure that I won't use the car for worldly pleasures.

Need one too

This is so on point

Give the flowers and the shiny gold thing with the shiny stones to her while wearing Mens lingerie.

Nice!! I had a similar break though when I found the function! Happy modelling!

Cheers bud… glad you like it!

I’m gonna be using that for future videos, it’s dead useful. When I did that for this, I ended up with loads of faces, that all should’ve been parallel and have been machined in one op, in XZ for example, which then weren’t quite parallel as they were all fit to the inconsistencies of the scanned mesh. I have been looking in GOM to use fitted planes for an offset plane from the global Co-ord system but no luck yet!

@@MakingforMotorsport Yeah, it's messy quick. You might want to give it another go though. If you have a best plane of reference, make a line normal to the plane and constrain any offset planes as normal to that line. I use that a lot for things like bores normal to a face.

@@kylelammie4621 are you doing all that in GOM?? With normal line and constraining? Looks like I need to practise!

Cheers bud… I try to make it simple and step by step, but often that means really long videos…😂

Precisely! I’ll be honest, when I came into it I was surprised at the gap, and it is frustrating as most people on YT are professionals using pro-kit and software like DesignX. The other bit everyone is bothered about is resolution. I am planning an engine swap this winter and I will fully model it beforehand and I intend to show people what they think is important, isn’t. Should be fun! 👍

Oh yeah, love me abit of 24hrs of LeMons! Glad your enjoying it!

I have only briefly played with Geomagic, not enough to get up the learning curve but I know it’s the standard for this kind of stuff… If F360 had fit planes and bores then I’d be done!!!

Photogrammetry is very accurate and something I definitely want to have another go at, but I’m never gonna have the space for a full rig (from what I’ve seen)…. The good bit about the scanner is the flexibility… What software do you use for photogrammetry?

@@MakingforMotorsport It's not about software you use for photogrammetry. It's about the hardware. Any NVidia GPU (10 series and above), plus a decent DSLR and Meshroom will get you insanely good results. Meshroom has a database of image sensor sizes for various DSLRs, and so helps correct distortion. The NVidia GPU lets you use CUDA cores to do the processing - so high resolution, clear images from a good DSLR and a powerful GPU is all you need. You can also do it with less powerful GPUs, but it's slower. You don't need space for "A full rig"...whatever that is. You just use a camera.

@@MakingforMotorsport Software is absolutely important! A lot of them use CUDA, so you'll need the NVidia GPUs as said above, but I've tried many options and currently the one outdoing everyone in both quality and performance is Reality Capture, recently bought out by Epic (but you don't need an Epic account to use it, you need a Reality Capture account). As for a rig, all you need is a good camera (SLR outdoes cellphones by a wide margin), good lighting (soft, no black shadows), no surface reflections (just like the other scanners) and a good support for your model that doesn't get in the way. The downside is you can't see how you're doing while you're taking pictures, so you might find something is too dark, reflects or you didn't take the pictures properly (out of focus, under/over exposed, etc) hours after you're done. If anything changed (you bumped on the support and it shifted slightly or the light moved), you'll have to take the entire photo series again. Also, expect hours of processing. The results can be impressive though, and cheap.

Thanks Peter, in retrospect the video is probably still 10mins too long but I always hear that CAD how tos go through things too fast… hopefully this was nearer the right balance

Kids washable paint? That’s a good idea, the hairspray can can thickness to a part, back to back testing of matting sprays is a video I am planning, I’ll have to add washable paint to the mix… do you have a brand as suggestion?

@@MakingforMotorsport I bought a small 10 pack sample of Crayola brand from the craft store. I experimented with brushing white onto an RC car body. The paint applies very thin and dries to a chalky finish. Very easy to wash off and doesn't smell badly. I saw that the same paint is available in gallon sizes on Amazon. Perhaps it could be spray on in addition to painted for something like the large surface of a car.

@@MakingforMotorsport I've been wanting to try washable spray chalk, since it has that heavy matte finish. If you get around to it, I'd love to hear how it turns out

@@keithfpv9451 There's something used to detect leaks on pneumatic joints. It's called D100, it sounds like just what you need.

We use the matte french chalk in a spray can when using the more industrial blue light scanners. Doesn't add much thickness and easily wipes off. 👍🏻

It can still be limited, some scanners struggle with daylight and others need a power socket, and up until the last two years it’s needed thousands of dollars to get hold of one. But if you pick the right one and understand your usage case, it can be very effective!

Plenty more coming… lots of 3D scanning, designing and modelling in coming months…. Thanks for the sub!

That and fitting curves to section sketch are the keys to the kingdom… makes me wonder why it took me 28mins to explain it! 😂

That’s why I am here! Glad to hear it’s working for you!

That method works well because it’s already aligned well to the coordinate system…. without that you’re chasing you tail…. There’s plenty I still didn’t cover like “plane from 3points”…

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for watching, comments like this keep me making the videos! Best of luck with your projects!

Glad to be of service! 👍

Cheers bud, that’s great feedback to get! Glad it’s made the difference for you

No problem!

No problems Peter, I enjoy making them!

You watched the whole thing?? Nice work! You have a high tolerance! 😂😂 I only did this video because it’s something I had to do so thought I’d put something out there, give credit where I can and maybe help people join some dots… (and content is content 😉)

Not into motorsports??!??!!!! 😂😂😂 Well if you are into fabrication, electronics, CAD, 3D printing and scanning then we have plenty of middle ground! 👍

Looking forward to all the vids

Cheers bud, that’s the feedback I like! I was worried it was over long and whilst it is probably, I think most CAD videos can be too fast so the step by step process, slow enough to follow can really help I think…

Cheers bud, if I find it useful, I just put it out there!

They all go together! 👍

Thank you, I’m glad you can understand me!!!

You are very welcome

The future is now!!! 👌

Cheers buddy, if this is what I think it is this my first SuperTip! Big thanks!

My pleasure! Glad you found it useful!

Yeah, I did all of that. But when you get it back into CAD all those faces and bores created don’t properly line up with anything, when they clearly should be parallel with the coordinate system axis, they aren’t far off, but they are off. Whether this error is in the part or the scan I do not know (I am not inspecting the part) but if I want a design intent RE, then if a bore should be parallel to y-axis, I need to draw it that they, same with the faces. GOM is a great tool, and I still have a lot of learning to do with it, maybe there are better tools in there I haven’t found yet…

@@MakingforMotorsport Yes the cylinders and planes won't be perfect due to slight inaccuracies in the scan data, and usually holes can only be scanned to a certain depth due to the stereoscopic requirements of the scanner. However any sections you create will cut exactly thru the mesh and these can be made parallel to your initial alignments. For smoothing, simplifying and hole filling GOM is vastly superior to meshmixer, so do that part in GOM. I only use GOM for reverse engineering not for inspection, and want to make a video on how I use it some day.

Oh man, I’d love some better GOM skills… sounds like you’ve got some!

Glad it was helpful!

The steeper the learning curve the faster you get good… just gotta strap in and find the right videos.. I did a couple of videos on modelling a year ago that go though constraints, a key piece of knowledge that I really struggled with… check them out, they might help!

From another hobbiest: honestly the learning curve is fusion is one of the most mild of any proper CAD software. Don't be intimidated by it, most things "make sense" and the community support forums are excellent. Basic modelling for functional parts is very easy to pick up. I honestly found it easier to learn than Sketchup when that was the popular tool for beginners to learn.

Fusion is probably one of the easiest CAD software honesdtly

Cheers bud, got a few more of these type of stuff planned…

@@MakingforMotorsport looking forward to it mate !

Get stuck in! It’s freeeeeeeee, so nothing to lose!

Your short-form content is the same for me…. I must’ve watched the clutch video 20times!!! (I especially like the loop edit)

@@MakingforMotorsport Thanks a lot! I definitely think you'll be able to come up with some awesome short form content if you scratch your head long enough. You could take some ideas from other 3D printing channels and adopt them to automotive as well. The most basic loop is easy to do, you just have to plan what you want your intro to be and either film it at the end in a clever way, or plan what you want to say at the end and film it as part of your intro. Cut the clip in half and bam issa loop! Haha.

Well hopefully once you graduate you can come back here and tell me how to do it properly! Keep your eyes peeled as I will be sharing a link for my scan .stl if you want to have a go yourself!

Cheers dude, glad you are enjoying it… had to have a bit of a break this summer but I am back on it now!

Winters coming up so time to get comfy in doors!

Thanks Mike 👍

I do go overboard on this, but with these types of tutorials it repetition that wins the race…

I dunno about throwing them away, maybe just the drawer…. You know… in case there’s a power cut!

Thanks for the sub!

I didn’t know I did! Remember, Siri is always listening and Alexa tells Jeff everything!!!!

Well alot of the expensive scanners have some kind of access to a cut down version of GeoMagic Design X, which is software designed for this job… If you are thinking about a scanner, give it a few weeks as I am planning a mega test of the consumer level of scanners, all back to back.

@@MakingforMotorsport ok i'll be watching

Cheers bud, it may not be the best one out there but it works very well for me 👍

It’s definitely usable and pretty accurate, I normally get within 0.5mm or less. There better out there but for the money I totally rate it as a tool.

Thanks for the sub, make sure you check out @Learn everything about Design , they know there stuff!

Come on man! Thats 15secs too long! 😂. Welcome along!

That is exactly what I did for the drive flange, and for the easily measurable dimensions on the part (I had it by the side of me with my callipers). However, there is no easy way to measure the picks for the suspension and steering reliably from caliper or rule measurements….

@@MakingforMotorsport Absolutely, agreed. I was actually glad to see that you made use of your caliper for the part which made sense to measure & used the scanned data for recreating the difficult part of the model to be measured with the Caliper. overall a really great video mate 🙂

Nice!! I loved the original Impreza with the big spot lamps in the bumper! Nice work bud!

That works well on .stl that have been created by CAD in the first place, like you get on Thingiverse etc… but 3D scanned things just don’t work well with it…

@@MakingforMotorsport ah, got it. A super cheap 3D scanner would be handy for the block / engine bay, to help speed up designing parts that fit…. But mostly they are too expensive for me to justify for the odd hobby piece.

@@bwm999 I know how you feel, if it weren’t for the channel I’d be in the same boat!

Yeah, I got ya. The machined surface is cock on but to be fair, the joint height is set by the taper and the ball joint anyway (which I didn’t bother modelling 😂🤷‍♂️). I plan modify this upright for my purposes and having a decent 3D model will really help with fixturing for accuracy, and the steering arm may well get fully replaced anyway (god knows how but I’m sure I’ll work it out 🤦‍♂️)

As long as all the original machined surfaces are aligned and holes are in the same positions as the original the rest of the model doesn't matter much. It could nearly be a square block but as long as all mounting points are the same it wouldn't make a difference in the geometry. If he starts shifting hole positions or the angles of certain faces thats where things will differ from the original in good or bad manners.

@@95dodgev10 oh stuff is gonna get moved 😏😂

Always pumped to get one finished! 😂

Agreed, maybe I would be best fitting one , the main plane, then bringing it through as an iges and using that to along to the coordinate system in Fusion360….

yes, that's totally true and I would recommend this too, otherwise you get very arbitrary results for your coordinate system.

Glad it was helpful!

Cheers!

It’s how I live my life 😂😂😂

Cheers buddy, yeah Geomagic Design X would be nice but I ain’t got the money for that! Shitty that this stupid war has derailed your plans but stay safe! Plenty of time once it’s done!

There is still a version of GOM Inspect you could use for free, you only have to register with your e-Mail address.

Glad it was helpful!

Something simpler than this, totally agree, especially with the faff of 3D scanning…

Yes. This part could be solid modeled in about the same time just from looking at it and measuring with the caliper and angle fitting ruler. And result would likely be cleaner. And you're having to pull out the caliper anyway to confirm and refine this stuff. I mean it is very cool to have the 3D scan sitting in there that you can turn on and off for verification. But 3d scanning is fiddly and time consuming and scanner cost and more software to deal with the mesh . . . I mean eventually AI will do all of this conversion from mesh into CAD for you but until then it is extremely time-consuming and manual.

You could do most of this with a canvas background to refer to, but I know my CAD-fu (and patience) would fall short to get the model to this level…

Cheers buddy, thanks for watching!