I graduated from a technical high school, and really aced machine design as subject both at school, and then later at university. Unfortunately this was stll in the ruler and pencil days, so my CAD knowledge always lagged a bit. Decided that I needed a few things Porsche related, and as they were either bespoke, or simply outside my budget to buy, I thought I'd give getting myself acquainted with CAD and CAM. Got a hold of Fusion 360, hit Youtube tutorials quite hard, and happy to say I am really getting into the swing of it.
Started off with a chassis jig design:
Had the manufacture outsourced completely, and was so ecstatic with the outcome that I immediately sketched up a proper rolling-hoop based rotisserie. Again had all the parts CAM'ed out, and will be assembling it this over the next two or so weeks.
This of course made me very cocky, and I decided to look into that big brake conversion I always wanted to do. The idea is fitting big brakes to a narrow body with minimum change required. Have been in close discussions with a local manufacturer of brake disks, and have managed to come up with a slightly modified version of a standard 930 disk set. Obviously CAD is the best place to design and check fit, so here's my latest piece of work then:
I'm only about 4 months into it, and already seriously considering my options for making a career shift from banking/IT into design/manufacture.
Anybody else here play around with CAD/CAM a bit?