First of just want to take the time to say cheers Nate for putting these vids together and taking you time to publish it on this app. I’m Tommi form uk I’m here for gain more knowledge about chassis design and further myself learning more about cad. I’m in the very early stages starting a new project. I’m a welder by trade and on the side I do some car fabrication mainly roll cages. My work in cad mainly sheet metal, welding tables and fixtures. My next project I’m building a trailer and I’ll upload progress on the way as the trailer I’m building is slightly different from the norm but as the design progresses you will see why I’m here. First question tho and I’m not sure it’s covered in any vids that I have seen. Where are you guys getting components from ie suspension wheels seats etc. all the companies o have reached out to won’t give any solid bodies models for mocking up, and I’m thinking I’m going to have to design from Scratch? Any way hop you all are enjoying this as much as me !

Check these out, my mother found these in their storage unit. These were sketches I did circa 2004 and she saved. I remember most of these, but some were really surprisingly cool that I had forgotten about. Some have morphed over time, but all have lived in my head since then, and some have made it into solidworks. Check it out, let me know what you think, and post some of your sketches if you still have them.

Please find attached a solid body that I have made, It was the first time Ive fully developed something from complete scratch. Please may ask for your critique in how I have approached the modeling process. There is also an assembly but the parts list for this became very messy so I dont know how to get the full thing to you. Yes fillets, any sort of naming convention, is missing :)

Check out the last video in this design series

I found out recently that the reason we call it “April Fool’s Day” is not quite as funny and whimsical as we all thought. April 1st used to be the first day of the new year in the old lunar calendar, which was in use from the time of the ancient Assyrians all the way up until the sixteenth century. That's many thousands of years of human tradition across cultures and in different parts of the world. The demarcation in the calendar had to do with the Spring Equinox, which I talked about in another video here. That’s the time when the day and night are equal in length, and there is a great big full moon. They had different names for the months too back then, but then Pope Gregory the 13th decided to change the calendar to the one we all use now, called the Gregorian Calendar, maybe you’ve heard that name before. There’s all sorts of weird occult stuff tied into the names of the months too, which have to do with ancient Roman gods & myths, but I won’t get into it. If any of you are into that stuff, let me know what you find out. The main point though is that people were called “April Fools” if they still celebrated the lunar new year, because people thought if they had not gotten word about the new calendar, so they must be foolish. But I think there is something to celebrate in the Spring time, and I definitely pay attention to the moon more than I used to. Spring is a time of change, growth, optimism, and planting seeds. To that end, I went through a journaling exercise with some buddies to set our Spring intentions for the year after a 4 day long fast (that was a challenge, but I felt great after). So call me an April Fool, but I’m celebrating this month, and I hope you have the same sense of enthusiasm that I have. What are your intentions for the year? What has changed since Jan 1st? And if the answer is “not much”, what is likely to change now that we have the energy of Spring driving us?