How do they make these awesome drawings

[tribdog]

Bryce won't let you do any real cad work though, it's just pretty.
3DsMax is my favorite for stuff like that, it has a bit of a learning curve though, so don't expect instant coolness. Bryce can be learned in 30 minutes

 

[cronxeh]

Here, I took the liberty of sprucing it up a little for you:
http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/boat2.jpg

Sweet

Except its a PVC inflatable boat.. but still sweet I like the wooden finish hehe

I was actually running load stress analysis on this model to test just how much HP it could handle

 

[tribdog]

is it a boat or a bathtub?

 

[cronxeh]

is it a boat or a bathtub?

cant it be both?

 

[tribdog]

you may have found your niche

 

[Janus]

Here's one I did a while back. It's a cut-away view of an apparatus used to make liquid air, circa 1910.

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/airpump.jpg

 

[Pengwuino]

Awww i want to amke stuff like that :(

 

[FredGarvin]

Renderings are nice and all, especially for marketing purposes, bit reaally do not provide much engineering worth. I wish I could post some of our stuff...

 

[Janus]

Renderings are nice and all, especially for marketing purposes, bit reaally do not provide much engineering worth. I wish I could post some of our stuff...

Granted, but in my case it is purely a hobby and not intended for any practical purpose.

 

[brewnog]

Renderings are nice and all, especially for marketing purposes, bit reaally do not provide much engineering worth. I wish I could post some of our stuff...

At university, we had a series of original drawings for the Rolls Royce Trent 600 engines. They were all hand-drawn, and utterly beautiful, particularly the oblique cutaway projections. The detail and quality was phenomenal, when you consider that some chap had spent months pouring over a drawing board constructing lines to do each individual compressor blade, they were stunning.

Sadly, none of the stuff we do is quite as evocative of bespectacled chaps in a back room in the midlands in tweed jackets smoking a pipe, but I feel a bit bad that I can't really share it!

 

[Janus]

Sweet
Except its a PVC inflatable boat.. but still sweet I like the wooden finish hehe

Ah, maybe somthing more like this?

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/boat3.jpg

 

[cronxeh]

Ah, maybe somthing more like this?
http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/boat3.jpg

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Excellent! :!)

 

[Janus]

Awww i want to amke stuff like that :(

Well, all you need is the right program and be able to something like this:


(The attachment is the text file for the second boat image.)

 

[Danger]

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

Doesn't everyone?

Here, I took the liberty of sprucing it up a little for you:

Are you sure about that?
Looks more like rosewood to me.

 

[FredGarvin]

At university, we had a series of original drawings for the Rolls Royce Trent 600 engines. They were all hand-drawn, and utterly beautiful, particularly the oblique cutaway projections. The detail and quality was phenomenal, when you consider that some chap had spent months pouring over a drawing board constructing lines to do each individual compressor blade, they were stunning.
Sadly, none of the stuff we do is quite as evocative of bespectacled chaps in a back room in the midlands in tweed jackets smoking a pipe, but I feel a bit bad that I can't really share it!

I hear ya. I have seen many an old time ink drawing like you mentioned. Back then they let an engineering/technical artist (as I have been told they were called) take the time to sit down and and create and make it look beautiful. The ones I have seen are simply fantastic. I have seen piping drawings that made things like pipes and fittings look fantastic. I think old aircraft companys were the best at it for some reason. It is going to become a lost artform in the very near future.

 

[tribdog]

I hear ya. I have seen many an old time ink drawing like you mentioned. Back then they let an engineering/technical artist (as I have been told they were called) take the time to sit down and and create and make it look beautiful. The ones I have seen are simply fantastic. I have seen piping drawings that made things like pipes and fittings look fantastic. I think old aircraft companys were the best at it for some reason. It is going to become a lost artform in the very near future.

probably already is. I see a lot of blue prints and even something that simple can look cool. Time consuming to make though.

 

[Cosmo16]

Ive used autodesk inventor in school, you can do the stuff evo was talking about using it.

 

[enigma]

Pretty big pic from a design project I was involved in.

Done in Pro-Engineer. Took four (five?) of us about 2 weeks to get the basics and another few weeks revising and coordinating the drawings before we ended up with the final results.

 

[enigma]

Wow... I was not aware we got our own page on astronautix.