all right welcome back to the fab forums today's episode little CAD cardboard
aided design
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so the idea is I want to kind of make something to go around the radiator I've
got some ideas on the shrouding that I want to do so we're gonna take some RAM
board or take some of those RAM board I showed you this in previous videos gonna
take this and just start just start cutting and pasting and taping until we
get something till I get something that I like and then it will be easy we can cut
it apart put it on aluminum and make the final piece at some point
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[the kind of music that makes you what to get up and get to work]
one of the things I really like about working with the RAM board is that you
can actually stick it in like a sheet metal break and bend it you can bend and
break it just like you would aluminum it's gonna put those nice crisp lines in
there it's gonna get all those bends the way you want it and for the most part it
kind of acts like she metal would right it's gonna tell you kind of what it
needs and how you're gonna have to manipulate to get it to fit in a
roundabout way kind of gets you on the right track the other thing is rad is
that when I do get ready to go do it in sheet metal I'll kind of have an idea of
how it's gonna want to be manipulated because I've already kind of done that
with some cardboard
[more super rad "get to work" music]
all right so there you go CAD before we had computers so thats the way Ilike to do it that's
the way I've always done it obviously CAD's a good I'm joking cuz CADs a good
thing but I mean sometimes you just have to work it out in person sometimes even
the best stuff that you plan ahead of time doesn't work out once you go try to
put it in there so that's what I did I wanted to kind of see how these panels
are gonna work together kind of lets me know how the aluminum would want to work
and how I'm gonna have to bend it and so on and so forth when I go to do it in
aluminum and I love it I like the idea of the design I'll show you a couple
things I really like about it that I was trying really to catch in this
particular style of build so the first thing is I really like the idea of
having like a a rear deck lid so this will be flat really close to flat I can
do some cool bead rolling in here right kind of match the rest of stuff that's
going on in the car and then if you can see it's got these kind of bends in this
thing we kind of break it up has a really cool look to it on this side I
can do some of the same stuff do a lot of be rolling here do some custom work
maybe some inlays same thing in the center panel
I've got enough vision out the back so if I do have a rear view mirror I got
some vision out the back and then you know kind of has the headrest style
setup to it so the seats will most likely come up and even kind of cover
this if I wanted to I could actually put some speakers in here right have a
speaker on each side alright guys there you go short low episode been real busy
moving in the house and working at the new shop and all kinds of stuff but I
want to put quick episode together for you one of the things I want to do very
soon is work on that back section so I figured little cardboard
aided design cardboard cardboard assisted design little CAD work give you
an idea of what I'm thinking anyway as always thank you for joining me I'll see
you guys some more this week go do work son