CO2 Rail Car Dragster
Welcome to cudacountry's SOLIDWORKS 2024 and Mastercam 2025 CO2 Rail Car Tutorials. We use SOLIDWORKS 2024 to design our cars and Mastercam 2025 to create CNC toolpaths to cut the car body.
The following tutorials with the PDF icon are available for download. Download the free reader from Adobe.
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1. Blank. Includes cylindrical and center plane Mate References. This tutorial is the same as Shell Car blank. |
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2. Body. Includes Lofted cockpit with guides curves and Split Line windows! Big file so hold your horses. After completing this chapter try the Decals Chapter 16. |
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3. Front Rim Lx. |
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4. Front Tire. Use on all front rims. |
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5. Wheel Assembly. Use this tutorial for all Wheel Assemblies. |
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6. Rear Rim Px. |
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7. Rear Tire with raised letters. Use on all rear rims. Use Chapter 5 to assembly Rear Rim and Rear Tire. |
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8. Rear Rim Spokes. Create sketches and loft spokes. Use Chapter 5 to assembly Rim and Tire. |
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9. Front Rim Spokes. Copy Rear Rim Spokes file and simply change dimensions to create Front Rim. |
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10. Axles. |
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11. Washer. |
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12. Assembly. |
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13. Drawing. 11” by 17” paper. |
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14. Eye Screw with Mates. |
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15. Cartridge with Mates. |
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16. Decals for Body. Click here to try our Cudacountry Racing decal. Decals zip file includes Photoshop file with editable text. Change text and save as png for decal. No Photoshop. Try editing in free online Pixlr. |
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17. Render in Visualize. Change body appearance to black paint. |
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18. Analyze in Wind Tunnel. Analyze assembly design using FlowSim flow simulation. |
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19. SW2024 to Mastercam 2025. Open your SW body file in Mastercam 2025. In Mastercam the solid car body is rotated into the correct Mastercam XY axis and moved to Mastercam origin. Then create check solid to keep tool away from fixture. Finish off with creating WCS plane. Units are metric. |
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20. Car body toolpaths for Mastercam 2025. Units are all metric. Toolpaths to cut rail car body from balsa blank: 1) Cut body left side using finish Equal Scallop toolpath. 3) Mirror left cut to right side cut. The stock setup has changed in 2025. |
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