BikeCAD Pro How To Forum

Hi Brent,

I've been using the BikeCAD pro program for the last 10 years upgrading to each new version as its been released. I downloaded the latest version of BikeCAD a few weeks ago and have been struggling with this edition randomly crashing or freezing and not responding.
I'm on an aging windows 10 pc 32 bit version with 4gb ram so it chugs along steadily but no previous versions have crashed like this.... any suggestions

Wayne

When I export a bike that includes the bosch mid drive unit and housing to Freecad it either fails or leaves out the motor and housing.

If I switch the same bike to a standard bottom bracket it works fine.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks

So I am building a fat bike with Paragon dropout DR2095 and it is sweet that it is in the static drawings.. but it doesn't seem to translate the dimensions on the seat say and chain say views ??

side view its all there.. what am i missing ?? I have fiddled and added width dimensions but the 1 inch round dropout i am not sure how to adj.

also getting chainstay and seatstay miter distance?? how do i toggle that ??

I recently made a few changes on my home computer (bought a new machine to replce an aging iMac, migrated files to the new computer, and changed my username / home directory). I'm running Mac OS Ventura on an Mac Studio M1 Ultra. When I recently tried to open BikeCAD 19.0, I received an error message: "Can't extract configuration files". Is there an easy fix for this?

Is there a way to use standover height as a single use license? I dont need any other features, just trying to model a single bicycle. Would also be happy with a 30 day license maybe?

How exactly do you add a second fade when playing with paint schemes? I can only see the one, but not how to add another. I'm sure I'm missing something.

Thanks.

Hello, I am working on a bicycle with 16" wheels and have just realised that I will have to work around some limitations in my TBA LCFFixture - the highest possible BB rise and lowest possible bottom of the HT (that would be the Henry James Y dimension I think). I will have to rotate the frame forward in the fixture, see what fits and calculate the adjusted dimensions for the fixture.

I can visualize that or make the calculations in another software, but I was wondering if I am not missing something in BikeCAD itself.

Subject says it all. Can i use BikeCAD to design a unicycle? If so how do I start the process (unable to find any unicycle references in my searching). Andy

How do folks go about modelling the paragon tapered head tubes like this one: https://www.paragonmachineworks.com/steel-tapered-ec34-ec44-choose-length.html ? Onlike the Columbus ones I am used to, there is no obvious upper section, lower section, and taper between them that can be easily input into the head tube dialog box. It's just one big taper and it does not appear to even be straight. I think there is some curve to it.

Hey!

Everything is in the title :)

I build my frames with the top tube "crossing" the seat tube (GT like) so I'm very happy that we can model it now!

I modeled a frame like this and wanted to export the miter template but nothing happens : no pdf is generated. I deleted theses tubes and it worked as usual...

I can do without it so it's not so much a problem for me, I'm just reporting the problem.

Cheers,

Nicolas.