Anvit Garg
03-19-2009, 01:10 PM
On www.formulastudent.com (http://www.formulastudent.com) there are a couple helpful documents regarding the new cockpit template as well as of the 95th percentile male.
http://www.formulastudent.com/universities/Rules.htm
Regarding the template, I do not see how they can "invert" the template once a low mounted steering column comes in the way.
As for Percy, there is an excel spreadsheed that has the dimensions, (I assume which include the helmet), but I can tell that it references a figure. At the bottom there is a citation "MJR 8-31-07"
Can someone please direct me to where I can find more info about that figure? Also if anyone has a suggestion for driver ergonomics, I am trying to figure out an ideal posture that lowers the driver's CG while still making the vehicle useable. (A book or website that discusses this?)
Lastly, I have been playing around with Autodesk Inventor, and for the bell crank design, I can not figure out a way to plot a table based off iterations for different bell crank configurations. I hear that Solidworks does this, is there an easy way to do it with Inventor? Should this be the approach for bell crank analysis, or do you guys typically derive a dependent set of formulas for a hypothetical bell crank set up?
If I do end up switching to Solidworks or Pro/E or CATIA, what function would be ideal for the iterations? (Solidworks - Design Table function, or something else?)
Thanks!
http://www.formulastudent.com/universities/Rules.htm
Regarding the template, I do not see how they can "invert" the template once a low mounted steering column comes in the way.
As for Percy, there is an excel spreadsheed that has the dimensions, (I assume which include the helmet), but I can tell that it references a figure. At the bottom there is a citation "MJR 8-31-07"
Can someone please direct me to where I can find more info about that figure? Also if anyone has a suggestion for driver ergonomics, I am trying to figure out an ideal posture that lowers the driver's CG while still making the vehicle useable. (A book or website that discusses this?)
Lastly, I have been playing around with Autodesk Inventor, and for the bell crank design, I can not figure out a way to plot a table based off iterations for different bell crank configurations. I hear that Solidworks does this, is there an easy way to do it with Inventor? Should this be the approach for bell crank analysis, or do you guys typically derive a dependent set of formulas for a hypothetical bell crank set up?
If I do end up switching to Solidworks or Pro/E or CATIA, what function would be ideal for the iterations? (Solidworks - Design Table function, or something else?)
Thanks!