On the
Drafting Table
Designers use a variety of tools when creating their casting layouts. Read on to fi nd out what your peers have that you don’t.
An MCDP Staff Report
W
hat do you use to de- sign cast components? What should you be using? What could you be using that you don’t
know exists? Metal Casting Design & Purchasing
recently surveyed a random selection of designers in the industry to examine their drafting table, climb inside their toolbox and learn their design secrets. Following are excerpts from 10 design- ers’ responses.
Designers: Mike Song and Greg Brew
COMPANY: Polaris Industries Inc.,
Victory Motorcycles, Medina, Minn. POSITION: Lead Designer, Director of Industrial Design The tools we use in our industrial
design studio are common through- out the automotive/transportation design industries. We generally start
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010
with 2-D sketches and refi ne them to a fi nal rendering over a package layout using Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter. If approved, we move to a 3-D phase, creating a full size clay model that represents the ren- dering. When the clay is fi nalized, the model is then scanned. Our CAD
specialists take the scan and create a digital model. In a model for the Victory CORE
motorcycle, ICEM Surf surface mod- eling software was used for complex body surfaces, and CAD software was used for small details for machining/ mounting. Our CAD team was able to
M The Survey
etal Casting Design & Purchasing’s recent survey of a random selection of casting designers about the tools they use to do their job asked the following questions:
• What tools do you use to aid in your designing of cast components? Are you using solidifi cation software? Which platforms? What CAD programs do you use, and how well do they translate into metal castings? Do you use any non-computer tools in your designing? What other resources do you turn to for information on castings in general or for a specifi c part challenge?
• Are there any tools, resources or information you wish you had but do not exist or you wish you had but are too expensive?
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