CAD data

Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:56 pm

Hi everyone,

Perhaps, abit of a long shot... but does anyone have CAD data for a 88MY tourings BIW? and/or data for the side glass?

Any help would be fantastic!

Cheers

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Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:49 pm

Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:45 am

A very long shot, straight over our heads!

Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:40 am

Sorry,

BIW = Body In White = Just the pannels/structural members - painted, or as the car would start on the line.

I'm after a model containing as much of this as possible, which as justly pointed out, is -

A very long shot

Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:00 pm

I actually sat down and started modelling my car in Catia at uni, Inventor recently and gave up....

Sod that for a laugh.

I doubt you'll be getiing hold of BMW production models!

Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:37 pm

I was thinking of doing a nurbs model from the blueprints so that i can try out paint schemes, yet to learn nurbs though!

Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:08 pm

Jai, Those are incredible!

I think I may have to just put in the time and draw it then... I take it you guys could be interested in a copy, if this comes to fruit?

Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:15 pm

Modelling a car in catia / CAD is a long, long process buddy. I recently had to produce a wing, bonnet, door and A-pillar etc for an assignment and it takes hours to get it right!

Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:29 pm

I did this for a living (not BMW`s) and it takes an age mate,if you have the correct data that is.

Good luck .

Mart.

Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:05 pm

Yea, the correct data is the main problem...

We had a Faro arm at uni and had to model the front end of an Aston Martin Vanquish. It was a LOT easier when you had full 3D co-ordinates. All excited I went home and started measuring with a tape measure and got bored very quickly. I then tried to free form surface model the outside and ended up with a boxy thing that looked like postman pats van with a nice E30 shaped wing. Gave up on that too!

I don't have the surface modelling experience. If you need a building drawn up in 2D and 3D autoCAD I'm your man.. LOL.

Need to get back to teaching myself some more object orientated 3D CAD stuff. I was learning Inventor in my spare time recently and have slipped somewhat. I do have some nice 3D animation on my other HD though. A friend and I modeled an E36 M3 front hub and brake set up with a mind to making a big brake conversion but it's on his computer..

I am after all, very lame.

Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:57 pm

Here are the blueprints i found http://www.the-blueprints.com/index.php ... _1987__e30_/
Not sure if the engeneering crowd uses that kinda stuff, i come form the design side and use to polymoddelling the cars. But so far in a nurbs package the way is to draw the curves over the blueprint so you end up with a wireframe skeleton of the car, then do your surfaces around that. I can do the wireframe skeleton and provide it as IGES if that helps. This is of course if all you need is the exterior body model.

Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:03 pm

v_nitro wrote:Here are the blueprints i found http://www.the-blueprints.com/index.php ... _1987__e30_/
Not sure if the engeneering crowd uses that kinda stuff, i come form the design side and use to polymoddelling the cars. But so far in a nurbs package the way is to draw the curves over the blueprint so you end up with a wireframe skeleton of the car, then do your surfaces around that. I can do the wireframe skeleton and provide it as IGES if that helps. This is of course if all you need is the exterior body model.

If you could do an iges for me I`d be over the moon mate!

mpwakeley@btopenworld.com

Thats ,Mart.