*DTT Official Thread* Looking for CAD Makers

General Yo-Yo
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For those of you who don’t know, the person who helps design the CAD gets a free yoyo from the production run.

We’re willing to let anyone give it a try. Whoever does it CORRECTLY and to my liking and designs will receive either: A. a prototype or B. one from the production run.

You will also become a Team CADist, if you’re willing.

The yoyo you’re trying to make a CAD of:

Let me know if you’re interested.

C’mon, guys, Delta Throw Tech’s CADist is MIA ATM, so we need a new one. I’m willing to give anyone a chance.

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prototype guy on the yyn forums or Icthus on the yye forums (they’re not the same person)

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i have a tech degree in cad. but dont own the program. haha if you want to buy me the program i will do it blindfolded sitting upside down and it will come out fantastic

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I’ll be “obtaining” CAD in a few days from a “reliable source” and since I haven’t used it in some odd years after some practice I’d love to give it a try :slight_smile:

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i think the student version is like 1000$ and 2010 cad pro is maybe 2000$? not sure if thats correct but it has to be close

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autocad 2011 is $3995.

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Well, that makes me feel special. I get free versions because I am in the Engineering program at my highschool.

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Even though the versions you get aren’t near the whole suite, You still get enough to do more than yoyo’s by far.

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I actually get full access to any of their programs, I have the new AutoCAD Inventor 2011 Suite. Including all of the features. Which btw is $5,259-$6,390 :confused:

But yeah making yoyos in CAD is the simplest task I could imagine doing in there besides like making a screw or something? Lol

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My teacher gave me a free version. I think without the license you only get 25 saves with that. At least that’s what it was in 2007

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Solidworks FTW!!


I’ll probably make another one when I get home tommorow. Solidworks calculated it out to be a measly 50 grams. Little on the lite side, I’d like to make one with Vascomax weight rings.

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In Inventor you can just reedit the sketch and make it bigger in certain spots until you have your desired weight. IDK what -DG- is doing, he has me making his throw and he won’t contact me on the rest of his specs, like weight, axle size and length, or bearing size.

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Thats what I plan on doing, but I am going to make a couple different ones. I would use a C bearing…
.250 Hole, .500 O.D. and .1875 thick. Easy to find and is kind of the standard. As far as the Axel I would just use a M4 x .07 I think thats what most of the YYF stuff is… Maybe it’s a 10-32, I’ll check tommorow…

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Ernie recommended 8-32UNC to me half inch axles. You can pretty much use whatever you want there though. As far as bearing seat I can give you a picture of all the dimensions for a size C bearing. Or if Solidworks take .ipt (doubt it) or .dwg I can send you that file.

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8x32 are good if you want English, M4 x .7 are good if you want metric.