Suspension Geometry

[Carlos Torres]

Which program do you recommend to design the suspension geometry?

I`m using wishobone and ProE

Carlos Torres
Suspenion
Team FSAE- LUZ
Maracaibo, Venezuela

[Carlos Torres]

Which program do you recommend to design the suspension geometry?

I`m using wishobone and ProE

Carlos Torres
Suspenion
Team FSAE- LUZ
Maracaibo, Venezuela

[jack]

i have been using excel http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[MikeWaggoner at UW]

On the suspensions I've done work on, I've used excel, Catia, and ProE. I think the numbers are useful, but's it's nice being able to constrain your suspension points and wiggle them around to see what they do.

[Big Bird]

Give Susprog a go - good little program, gives you all sorts of data about spring rate variation, roll centre migration, etc.

Cheers,

[Carlos Torres]

Thank you all, I also found suspen 2d at google helps you find easily the roll centre.

www.fsae-luz.org (http://www.fsae-luz.org)

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[Sam Zimmerman]

For a easy to use suspension program, try http://www.auto-ware.com. The owner's name is John Block and he is very, very helpful in answering questions. We also use Cosmos Motion (in conjunction with SolidWorks) and Matlab.

[Mick_P]

Agreeing with Geoff SUSPROG3D is awesome and gave us all the features we needed to design an acceptable susypension system that gave us all the details we needed to meet our design criteria AND answer all questions from design judges.

[John McCarthy]

Ditto on Susprog 3D.,

Takes a little bit of getting used to but once mastered it is very powerful and sensibly priced. We bought 2 licences and it's been worth every cent.