Farm Boy: Real engine vs SolidWorks render

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Lasy year I built JE Howell's Farm Boy engine. Since I was teaching myself Alibre, I figured Mr Howell's blueprints would make a good tutorial and help me understand how the engine all goes together.

Now, I'm teaching myself SolidWorks. Again, the Farm Boy came into play. I exported the Alibre design as SolidWorks, opened it up, assigned the surface finishes and appearances, and kicked off a render. Here's what I got:

Farm Boy Rendered.JPG

I never got around to painting the real engine red, or making the name plates on the water hopper, but here's the real engine that I built. As you can see, I changed the fuel tank design since I made the 3D model:

DSC00293.JPG

Cheers,
John

Farm Boy Rendered.JPG DSC00293.JPG
 
John,

Very nice job with the render!

I just took the plunge into AutoCAD as a progression from SketchUp and am modeling a Philip Duclos hit 'n miss engine from one of the Village Press books.

How many SolidWorks hours do you have those engine drawings?



Matt
 
John,

Very nice job with the render!

I just took the plunge into AutoCAD as a progression from SketchUp and am modeling a Philip Duclos hit 'n miss engine from one of the Village Press books.

How many SolidWorks hours do you have those engine drawings?



Matt

I had about a months time part time making the model in Alibre. I could do it much faster now that I know the program.

Importing into solidworks and assigning materials and finishes for rendering only took about 2 hours.

John
 
Looks great to me with or without paint. I am curious though, did any parts like the flywheels come from casting or did it all come out of chunks of metal in the mill and lathe? Whichever way it still looks great to me.

Bob
 
Fantastic job, on both the engine and the CAD work...! Really nice...:))
 
That is a beautiful engine and the work is outstanding. Always thought I'd like to make or buy one but, have never got around to it.
 
Looks great to me with or without paint. I am curious though, did any parts like the flywheels come from casting or did it all come out of chunks of metal in the mill and lathe? Whichever way it still looks great to me.

Bob

Bob, Thanks!

No castings anywhere. It's all bar stock. The flywheels were done on the lathe and the spokes wire done on a mill using a rotary table.

John
 
Nice looking engine. I am interested in these old engines and recently ordered the Red Wing engine castings and will start on it soon. Still a little hot down here and my shop is not air conditioned. Have never built one yet and this will be an experience I'm sure.

Thanks
 
Lovely job, both on the render and the engine. I must dig my plans out and have a go.

Tom
 
Really pretty John.

I miss the RealView rendering. I couldn't justify the additional expense of the SolidWorks Professional over the Standard version when I bought my personal seat. I miss the pretty pictures.:apologize:

Some pretty machining too!

Bob
 
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