Your rig/setup

Those grips are amazing. How did you make them? They look molded/cast. That could not have been easy.

 

Thanks. I 3d printed them which involved a lot of prototyping.





Sometimes it looks good, but doesn't feel good in hand. The only way to judge this is print a lot of different prototypes. The Mclaren 650S rim has really thick solid grips, the way i like it.



Desiging rounded shapes is extremely difficult to get them to be solid for 3d printing. The final result i covered with a fake suede which can be stretched a bit of optimal results.

 

Thanks for the replay!

 

Wow. That's really neat @HoiHman! I am completely ignorant when it comes to 3D printing. I know there are all sorts of varying degrees of quality/function of 3D printers available nowadays (with wildly varying pricing to match). I'm just curious - what would you say was the total cost in materials to 3D print one complete steering wheel shape? I swear to God, I'm like a man from 750,000 years ago who's seeing fire for the first time, when I watch additive 3D printing.

 

The cost of the 3d printing materials (including all prototypes) were pretty low, some where around €50,- . But with knitter buttons, bodnar board, rotaty encoders, aluminum backbone, QR , carbon fiber foil, stickers the total investment is around 500 euro.

It took me over 100 hours to design, protype, print and assemble the rim.

 

I think you need to follow in vw shoes with the bugatti veyron and sell them for $400! Kidding aside you have a real nice setup going on there. Nice work on that wheel it is awesome!

 

After seeing the beautiful designed grips of HoiHman, I had to post these pics of my Steelseries/Simraceway SRW-1.
For over a year or so the rubber-surface of the grips adsorbs some smeary fluid. You can see it after only a few days of not using the wheel.

I had a similar problem once with a brandnew, original-packed Atari-joystick for the 2600, which I wanted to use a few years after buying.
Haven't figured out so far how to get rid of this smeary fluid once and forever.

 

This is some superb work. It looks like you are using sketchup there to create the wheel layout. Are you doing the whole model in SU or just creating the outline and then moving onto blender/3ds/Maya/your preferred modelling software for the rest?

 

Thanks

Everything was done in sketch up.

 

If you don't mind me asking, how do you do your bevel/chamfer? Maybe it's a sketchup pro feature, but I tried the roundcorner plugin and it works up until a point, but then the overlaps become so severe it just wont work for me.



And as you can see, RoundCorner wont get me the desired results



Cheers

 

@ HoiHman What brand of 3d printer are you using?

 

That was the really hard part: Making the handgrips in 3d was the most difficult task of the the entire Mclaren 650S rim. I made an arc and used the "follow me" tool in sketchup and did a lot of manual correction. It took me weeks to create the handgrips to my liking. Especially the tumb grips were very hard to make..

I printed the Mclaren wheel with a velleman K8400, but this week i'm receiving a Orginal Prusa I3 MK2S. My next project will be printed with carbon X filament.

 

That is some dedication. I'll give the follow me took a go see how it works out. cheers!

 

Nice mits too, what are they?

 

Hi wonderful work , if you don't mind would you have a link to the suede your using please .

 

Beautiful as always!

I was inspired by your work, so I decided to try and design and print my own wheel. After a solid couple of days of designing, tweaking and experimenting , here is the printed result.

Spoiler: Handle

Maybe I should leave this to the pro's?

 

hello adaptabel1,
I'm use 1080 projector (max 60p) GTX1070 Nvidia, i7 7700KK and SSDM2. Sometime I have some lag also with only 1 car practice. How you settin AC setup disply for best matching on 1080 60p projector for avoid microlags ...... Many anticipated thanks,
Giovanni

 

I don't use projectors but maybe you need to research your projector as maybe this is causing you're lag, what's the specs for it, what is the projectors response time etc. This could be very relevant. Also have you tried it on an ordinary monitor and do you get the same lag ?

 

Sorry mate, but what's a "mits" ?