Hello
I want to make a dream come true, that of restoring a VW Cox convertible. Before making my purchase, I would like to find 3D models in any software and failing that, launch a challenge for the community. All together we could make this project a success.
Hello, I think you can find what you are looking for on the grabcab.com website.
I attach an image with the Volkswagen search
Kind regards
See this link blueprints.com
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/cars/vw/
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Grabcad, looking for Beetle http://grabcad.com/library?per_page=20&query=beetle
After the Karman version is a little more... Complicated...
After the blueprints are good for modeling but your all the work to do.
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Indeed, I had already had some results on grabcad which a good starting point. Thank you all the same
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/cars/vw/23613/view/volkswagen_beetle_karmann_cabriolet_%281955%29/
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/cars/vw/23333/view/volkswagen_beetle_karmann_cabriolet_%281954%29/
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In my opinion blueprints are rather a good idea.
I've already tried on other car models and it's true that it helps a lot, after that's true that in your case we're not going to do pixelart (or mangacar for families of that kind of thing) so we'll still have a lot of work.
I think the most judicious thing is to mix the two solutions, i.e . to take a pre-existing model on grabcab, insert the blueprints of the karman on the projection plans that go well and modify the existing according to it.
It's not necessarily as rewarding as doing everything from scratch but it has the merit of being faster.
What is the principle of Blueprints in its operation?
David, take the blueprint as a simple image, no more and no less.
In solidworks you have for example the possibility to put these images on plans to have a 2D display of your car.
Basically, you'll have two images on perpendicular planes that will display the two orientations of your blueprint (front and side in this case)... Ideally, a blueprint with a top view and a rear view could help too.
so with these displays it helps you draw the right shapes in 3D
See this link
Tutorial setting up blueprints
http://fr.openclassrooms.com/informatique/cours/apprenez-a-utiliser-solidworks/mise-en-place-des-blueprints
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvdAaccSHbc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUGdhEqaVI
The blue print is not bad... There were tutorials to create an Audi R4 from this technique.
And the idea of the challenge is excellent... If the Lynkoa team can help you, it's with pleasure :-)
Yves
A lot of Coxes
it's up to you to make your choice, the only problem if it's one, it's for sure
Sketchup which is free
http://imageshack.com/a/img834/4521/3pox.png
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Following the challenge I pause a question:
a Karmann Beetle Cabriolet in the end is just a Beetle Cabriolet, isn't it?
I'm not an expert on VW oldies but from what I've read on the net, Karmann is just the builder of the model, so I'll tend to deduce that all VW cabs are necessarily Karmanns, right?
Obviously they were made in 1949 and 1979 and the aesthetic changes of the models seem to have repercussions on the entire range.