A couple projects I'm finishin up
I just built these forward controls (middle pic) for a guy on Discovery channel. It was cool to go from a pencil sketch to a 3-D model soooo fast and being able to check clearances on the fly... The other (pic on right) is a picture of a wheel we're building with wood inlays... The other 'thing' (left pic) is some gator heads I made only the real ones have 3-D scales and fully contoured surfaces, they literally look like real aluminum gator heads. I didn't draw all of those other features in the model yet, lol, couldn't figure out how~
I've been able to make some sick wheel designs, crazy-fast, just from artists sketches scanned and sent via email... My customers love seeing their 'wheel' before its cut, saves a lot of time and money... I think Alibre is awesome but then again, it's all I could afford, lol, price and nothing else was my determining factor, so far I think I got lucky...
Nobody wanted to give me $5,000 for a used dirtbike and solid works didn't want to sell me their software for the $1,800 I got for the bike!! (Kinda cut down my options luckily)
Alibre rocks!! I'm not sure about the other software companies but I got 5 seats with that license, I've been giving them to my buddies just for kicks~
Anyone else draw up some really cool stuff and actually build it from the model??
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