BikeCAD Pro How To Forum

I have made myself familiair with FreeCAD/PartDesign/Sketcher.

I know about Bodies, AxleCrosses, Pads, Sketches, DatumPlanes, etc.

I know how to activate a Body. But I do not see any Bodies in the Model Tree of a Bike design which I exported from BikeCAD.

I wanted to create a DatumPlane in the front fork. And turn the front wheel independent from the other parts of the bike. In order to get a better understanding of the steering behaviour of the bike.

Do I have to install another WorkBench, like Assembly ?

Is there an option to see the bake caliper on the auxillary stays view?

I am curious if anyone has experienced this. I went to recent BikeCAD files, and clink on a recent drawing, and I get this:

C:\Users\Blues\Documents\Truman1.Bcad

There are three finished drawings that were there last week, but are no longer found. Any thoughts? Thanks for any info on this!

Curious if anyone has used outputs from BikeCAD to setup a Brew Bike Jig and had any issues? It should be pretty straight forward using STA, HTA, BB drop, and head tube bottom (from bottom of the head tube to axel). Something (at least for me) seems off with either the BB drop or the head tube bottom when setting up this jig and was curious if I'm doing somethign wrong.

HI,

is it possible to get some clue from BikeCAD pro where to place mitering template for left chainstay with this flatmont dimple?

To arange right disance from axle for 160mm rotors.

And also what is the best dim to use for templates of seatstay/ chainstay overall. I did not find any kind of "miter to miter tip".

I'm beginner in BC

Thank you

Simon

Hi, I wasn't able to find a dimension that would show the total length of a bike - maybe not only the length with tires, but just the longest dimension there is on the modelled bike, with bars, fenders, racks etc. To see this calculated live would help me when designing cargobikes, but would probably be informative for any non-traditional bikes or minivelos, anything weirdly long or short really.

Am I overlooking something? Thanks a lot.

Hey Brent,

Love the software and been using it so long that I often overlook cool features.

Having recently discovered the design archive, I'd like to be able to study designs using my copy of BikeCAD Pro. Is there a way to simply download the design rather than viewing it in the free viewer. That way I can study based on all the measurements most importaqnt to me.

Let me know.

Thanks

Rick Guggemos

Cycles Noir

Hi guys,

I'm not sure if my request or something similar already exists, but I couldn't find it in the forum.

Since I'm pretty new to BikeCAD I don't know all the functionality and where to find all the options. I'm trying to create wide seat stays on a gravel bike, to fit 29x2,3 tires. For that I want to add extra tubes from the seat tube to the seat stays (like in the picture). I found the option for extra tubes, but I can't fit it the way I want it. Is there any other option I'm missing?

Thanks for your help!

A short customer wants to run a 175mm dropper in the hardtail I'm building for him. I want to accurately model the dropper post to make sure the seat tube length and bend in the seat tube can accommodate such a long post.

What does value A refer to in the dropper post dialogue? I assume it's to adjust the distance from center of rails to the top of the dropper's stroke. But I can change that number to anything and it doesn't affect the drawing.

It'd be nice to be able to accurately define the distance from the center of the rails to the top of the seatpost collar.

Hi all,

I am trying to enter Columbus Zona CX double s-bend chainstays data in BikeCAD but I can figure how to enter the right values for B and D.

Not sure about the rest also :-

Please can someone help?

The columbus datasheet here :

and my design :

thanks

Clément