MAX Update No. 95: Drawing a Blank and Drafting With DraftSight

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I’m done with drawings. I don’t intend to have any more drawings in my instructions, or on my web site, or in this blog for that matter.

If you go through the Kinetic Vehicles web site you’ll find lots of computer drawings for how to make this and that, but I’m replacing them with DraftSight .dwg documents, which are two dimensional CAD (Computer Aided Design) files and a whole lot more useful than drawings. If you keep reading, I’ll tell you why, and I’m going to use MAX’s engine mounts as an example.

It’s dark and crowded under MAX’s hood, so I’m using a water bottle as an engine substitute and a 2×4 as a chassis substitute. The upper half of the engine mount bolts to the engine, the lower half bolts (or welds if you prefer) to the chassis, and a rubber damper fits between them. It’s a somewhat complex bit of steel origami, so I want to give precise instructions on how to make your own–a description isn’t going to cut it, and a drawing is going to leave you with a lot of work, so my new standard is .dwg documents generated by DraftSight.

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