Re: Just a random question about geared locomotives... unofficial Challenge!

For those of you may not peruse the Railway Preservation News and although it's Not Narrow Gauge (except for the Cab which is common to many Climax locomotives) below are links to some drawings of Climax CN 1551 which is at Cass, West Virginia.

I have posted a 3D pdf of CLIMAX CN 1551 and CADD files at the following addresses:

[s3.amazonaws.com] (57.8M

Requires Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to use the 3D features (browser pdf viewers will not work). One can zoom in, rotate, pan, and hide individual parts or assemblies to see what is otherwise hidden. As the model has gotten more complex with additional parts, I have noticed that Adobe Acrobat tends to simplify some of the parts with compromised fillets and other visual compromises. Adobe and or my 3D CADD program may be approaching some of its limits in producing and/or displaying the 3D pdf due to the size of the file.

The original 3D CADD files are in Alibre Expert CADD from which I printed 2D drawings in Alibre and then exported to my CADD program. Some lines were lost in the export/import process and I attempted to correct the most oblivious but some will have been missed.

For those of you who use or have access to 2D CADD I have posted 2D drawings of CN 1551 with Sections and Notes in their native Visual CADD format (.vcd) and in AutoCad format (2010 .dwg) which contain notes on most of what is known about the re-build of 1551 at the following addresses:

[s3.amazonaws.com] (52.3M Visual CADD

[s3.amazonaws.com] (33M AutoCad

How well the AutoCad files translate and import I will be curious to learn.

For those of you not into CADD a 2D pdf of the file may be downloaded as follows:

[s3.amazonaws.com] PDF



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/02/2019 02:21PM by WESIII.