The rule book states that the design report is due "by" March 1. An e-mail sent a few days ago says that is "due March 1." Can anybody tell me if it is due sometime tomorrow or in 20 minutes?

As far as I know it is due by midnight tomorrow. We handed it in late on the 1st last year and will likely do the same this year.

Jared Garvey
University of Pittsburgh FSAE

We just turned it in at 7:30pm pacific time, but still haven't recieved a confirmation. It said in the email that a confirmation should be sent after the DR and Spec sheet are obtained. hmm hope they got it...

I think it is due before march 1st. Meaning before feb 28th at 11:59.59secs.

late=0 design points right?

We submitted ours at 5PM Central time but also didn't receive confirmation. Has anyone received confirmation yet?

Last year we submitted ours at about 11:00 P.M. the day of. WE didn't receive confirmation for about three days from what I remember. WE finally did get it though. So don't sh*t bricks yet. Wait a few days. That way you have more material, and you get a more solid brick that is much better to build with.

Remember that if you don't know it, don't put it in.

Bill

We submitted our report at about 12:05am this morning, and still have not recieved any confirmation either.......

we got an email saying that the report was unofficially received and an official receipt was coming later. submitted at about 12:30pm today

It takes time to get a confirmation...chill

Denny, any chance of seeing the latest "design report images?" If anyone else wants to share please do!!

I would like to thank Denny for his 'inspiration' of this year's images, but of course I could't get them as neat and clean as his.

Design Report Images (pdf)
They also seem a bit difficult to view online but look alot better when printed.
I had some problems in scaling between the drafting and the shaded models, and some artifacts I couldn't fix because it took at least 45mins per shaded image.

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on the note of design reports, who writes most of yours? Do you have anyone look over them for ease of reading/etc?

I ask partly because I'm an english minor doing an independent study for these reports this semester, and I'd like to see what other teams put into their design reports etc, in the hopes of putting together report guidelines.

Anyone who wants to share reports, I'd be willing to share the guidelines I come up with at the end of the semester.

with regards to images, i'll share these two only, cuz the rest don't seem to be up to par.


This is the header on each interior page.

The other is our design major's body rendering, but I won't share cuz its top secret. He almost had to kill me when I wrote the report.

Ben,
Nice images, you can see a lot of details of your car.

I'll let Mike T decide if he wants to post this year's images or not, he's the one who spent the days in front of the computer this year.

Anybody else wish to share their images?

They're at

http://students.washington.edu/auto/DesignReportImages/2005/

Mike Trumbore

Mike,

The images you posted suggest that your driver's head is very close to being outside of the REAR roll envelope (main roll hoop and rear tire). It definitely appears that he is out of the "crash" envelope if you look at the plane between the rear of the frame and the main hoop.

I'm curious about the shift lever. It seems like it only clutches when you push the lever (Assuming the top cable is the clutch). Is that right?

Nope, top cable is shifter, bottom cable is clutch. The delay mechanism allows the clutch to open on downshift before the shift cable is pulled. On upshift, there's no delay, and both cables are pushed. Pushing the clutch cable doesn't do anything.

I wonder if we'll be on the receiving end of a clarification, Donavan. We'll see.

... seems like the Guelph file is no longer working?

"3.3 CRASH PROTECTION
The driver must be protected from car rollover and collisions. This requires two roll hoops that are braced, a front bulkhead with Impact Attenuator, and
side protection."

It doesn't clearly state elswhere in the rules anything about how far away from the 'rollover envelope' the driver's helmet must be. Regardless, the images are misleading since our driver model and the driver model per the rules disagree about the length of a 95th percentile male's neck, and per the rules the driver's head is within this envelope by slightly more than 2 inches. If sufficient for the distance to the line formed between the roll hoops, I think it should be satisfactory for rear of the roll hoop. A picture illustrating this has been added to our design report images.

Design Report Fun, 900Megs static memory used in solidworks, 1.5Gig (the whole machine) used under load. Had to go find some extra sticks of Ram.

Pics to come.

Jon
UofArizona ECE/StaticEvents Director.

Here are the U of A's design report images. We were rushing to finish a few details and just wrapped it up a little while ago. Let us know what you think of them...

http://formula.engr.arizona.edu/2005.html


Ryan Kanto, Team Captain
University of Arizona FormulaSAE
"Drive It Like You Built It!"

Nice wheels...