Am I the only one that does this?

[martyf]

Am I the only one that puts pencil to paper in trying to figure ride height and frame build?

Then just start drawing up your ride ?

Hahaha I did

 

[Tim...Ok]

I do cad/cam for a livin, so I drew mine up in a cad system..same idea though

 

[donsrods]

No, I don't. I just do it in my head and take measurements and make adjustments as I go along.

Don

 

[Gastrick]

No, I don't. I just do it in my head and take measurements and make adjustments as I go along.

Don

Me too [S

 

[Sniper]

Sometimes I draw things to scale, just to see if it works out with proper clearances etc.

 

[Old Iron]

No, I don't. I just do it in my head and take measurements and make adjustments as I go along.

Don

Yep me too

 

[Sam_Fear]

I sketch something out with dimensions so I won't get confused. With the Olds, I had to get everything perfect to get it to lay frame without wasting suspension height, so it got kinda confusing.

 

[Dirtyrat]

I'm on a CAD tube all day too, so in order to maximize my building time, I do draw things up to make sure I have enough tubing, and that things will work... I imagine if I had built more frames, I would probably be able to do more freestyle building..

 

[RoddingRon]

No, I don't. I just do it in my head and take measurements and make adjustments as I go along.

Don

I see it in my head how I want things to look/be, and then I do what I have to, to make it work...basically what Don said

 

[zzrodder]

I do a drawing too but it never seems to satisfy me so I do a full scale chaulk drawing on my basement floor. Easy to rub out and change till it looks right, then I reproduce it on the garage floor and use that to lay out the frame rail pieces and tack them together right over the drawing.
It backfired on me once when I came home and the wife had just mopped the basement floor - "Honey, I just cleaned up all that scribbling mess on the floor for you!"
Back to the drawing board - literally...

 

[gold03]

It's all in my head. I build it in my head over aand over till it woks. Then I cut and weld. I did draw my grill first though. I built a house once... Had to draw it out.

Gold03

 

[Willowbilly3]

Note books clear back to junior high and car drawings all over them, suspension designs and other mechanical things. I have to see it to get it right.

 

[butchman_3]

some things i do

i do draw out some things, but in the world of custom fabrication, nothing ever works out perfectly from how its drawn up. ive sketched out how i kinda want mine to look but ive had to opt for changes due to lack of a part, finances, or i seen something else i liked better. i like to build without having any restrictions. as long as its safe and the finished project is what i am happy with, who cares.

 

[jfg455]

I usually throw a pile of parts at the garage floor and push them around until it looks right. I was helping a friend with his BBC altered T bucket and I never get the math of roll bar tubing bends right. But then if I make a bracket then I draw it on the cad system first[S guess I am just weird![cl

 

[RPM]

We have CAD, but we used to get large boxes, that washers, and dryers came in. Then we could draw it all out full scale. It is a lot easier and cheaper to erase a line or get anther piece of card board, that waste some steel.

 

[V8Square]

Drawings

What I normallt do is make full size, and thickness, patterns of what I want out of plywood, nail and glue it all together, then, if I have some changes to make, it's easier to add or subtract wood pieces. When it is the way I want it, then, I make the part from steel. As a matter of fact, I just finished making some frame mounts for my engine assembly that way and they turned out great. Down the road, I plan on making dody mounts the same way. Works for me and that's all that matters.

 

[Gus]

I did mine in my head trying to put it on paper would have just confused me.[S

This is my quote for most of the things I do.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein