BikeCAD Pro How To Forum

I'll try to make this question make sense - I use the Fit Advisor rendering of the rider to judge the fit on the frame, in particular, the seat tube angle with respect to the rider's knee position over the crank. With the carnk in the 0 degree (horizontal) position, I take a line through the pedal spindle up vertically through the rider's knee. I usually do this by dragging the Stack dimension over. Then I look to see if the knee is forward or back of the pedal spindle and adjust the seat angle as desired.

Hello guys, the last time I used this software was 12 years ago, was it bike tree, or forest? cant remember where I first tried it,

I have this model, but wanted to fix the geometry of some sizes, size 53 and 50 is ok, we want a size 56 and 59, and 47, trying at best to still make this bike the entry bike for bike shops around,

there seems to be 1-2 cm different between actual and my use with the program, not sure if it was the tyres or something else,

Just upgrade the studios computers to the new Apple M1 chipset and running Pro 16.0.

When the app loads in comes up ok but then as soon as i try to perform any function the screen starts flickering and the app become unresponsive.

Is there a patch ? or some work around to this.

Thanks

Greg

Hi there, I noticed that in Drivetrain when I have centerlines shown and battery location is 'None', the centerlines for the battery bosses are still shown. It seems like they will remain from wherever the last battery location was. They aren't needed for bikes that have internal batteries. Any hints on how to get rid of these lines?

Curious if anyone knows how to pull an angle up on the drawings: 2nd miter for the top tube notch when the top tube interects a downtube at head tube. Thx -Vince

Hi,

Can you assist in the parameters I need to input in the chain stay dialogue box for a Columbus chain stay drawing? I am assuming using method 2 for a curve chain stay is what is required but I cannot figure out the radius numbers.

Many thanks,

Steve

These days it's possible to have tubes CNC laser cut, which opens up some neat options for semi-handmade bikes (tubes mitred by a machine, brazed/welded by a human). From a data point of view it would be handy if BikeCAD could export tubes as individual STP files. The program obviously already calculates all the dimensions and the mitre contours so it doesn't seem like it would be an impossible thing to integrate but I don't really know what's involved!

I'd like to model some typical cantilever brakes (Paul's, Shimano, TRP, etc.)

>>Is there an easier way than manually adding all dimensions via custom brake option?

Thanks,

Eric

Ive been working on BikeCAD for a while on my old windows pc and have loads of files i need to keep. Ive just had to upgrade to a mac but i cant open any of my old windows files on the new mac. I can see the BikeCAD files when i look in my documents but the files dont show up once ive started BikeCAD. I cant find anything on the forums or help page. Dose anyone know how to convert the files?

My rear axle and dropout don't appear to be matching up. The front and rear axle are level; it's just the dropout that appears to be several mm too high.

The dropout here is a Paragon X-12 but the problem is the same with other standard dropouts.

Has anyone else experienced this or got ideas for a workaround? Thanks!