Project Bench press.

[nosmoking]

Hello,

 

I've started project named bench press. my father will make most of details if he gets blueprints so i've started to comply them but on the way many problems faced me.

 

for first my poor skills, aquaierd from school, made me to do many unuseful work but that's ok.

secondly i realised that my drawing are to complex and i decided that i will better spend more time sitting in a front of computer than have hard time building it. firstly I wanted to my bench have negative + positive, normal side position but at the end i realized that its not so easy to do, help me with ideas.

But i cant let go of positive sidepos.

i repeat that i want my drawing to be simple as possible and have small variations of minimum kind of parts.

my plan started to showing serious misses at the end.

 

i will post my drawing and you, pros, please take a look and give me ideas and tell me my mistakes.

bench himself will be made of flywood, something soft and leather.

sorry about my english - i'm still in school .

 

files.filefront.com/benchpress123dwg/;13511207;/fileinfo.html

[ReMark]

Welcome to CADTutor nosmoking.

 

Designing a bench press sounds like an interesting project. I'd sit down with paper and pencil and rough out some basic sketches first then move to CAD. If you have any problems with AutoCAD commands or cannot figure out how to do something please return to CT and post your question in the proper forum. Good luck with your project.

 

I'm assuming you are doing this in 2D right?

[nosmoking]

i assume that you didnt opened my file but thats ok. It's really hard to design something in 2d so i went straight to 3d but i still have 2d viewports somehow and can dimension it ( that was problematic on start). i've passed 2 course of mchine drafting so i know basics. i have even some layers for printing different parts.

 

maybe my imagination isn't fully fledged, because i cant come with simple neg-pos Bench idea. And i dont know anything about welding to. for material i choosed S355 -40x40x3 its steel right? maybe 50x50 would be better?

[ReMark]

My apologies. No, I did not open your file. 3D is a great way to go if you are familiar with it. What method did you use to generate the 2D views?

 

What do you mean by a neg-pos bench?

[nosmoking]

i ment that bench could be set on negative and positive angle from normal, flat, position but now i've researched and understood that its not needed. Bar pull ups will do better. i never saw some1 preforming neg angle presses but i can see many ppl doing pullups and many other exercises.

 

im not so sure about the methods. i started drafting in 2d but then i changed views and relized that that with polar, osnap and some construction lines is possible to create quite complex objects.

For dimensioning i can create different "viewports"( i'm not so sure about that word.) with different dim. layers.

 

now i'm considering to make new drafting.

something like that with 50x50 tubes.

but again i'm not so sure about about that bench and barbell hoder are in conjunction. this can put big ? in my measure planning.

i had something simple in mind like triangle style barholder and bench apart.

[Patrick Hughes]

I see you are a very quick study, that's a really nice render.

[nosmoking]

lol? you must be kidding me because this is photo ( or rendered picture but not by me) is taken from net as example.

im amazed how casual you are. no1 took a look on my file. ill reupload it as a picture soon, when i got time to improve my drafting.

 

picture talkes more and awake attention than words.

[Patrick Hughes]

Heh heh, yes I was having a little fun with you (but in my defense you did say you would post your drawings)

 

For me it is easier to view pictures due to working with an older AutoCAD version. Here's a few tips for you if you want to pursue doing this in 3d.

 

It is easiest to work in an isometic view.

 

Keep your UCS icon on - always.

 

Remember that creation of 2d entities always places them in the xy plane.

 

If you will be creating solid objects from simple 2d linework always work with precision (well you should anyway). Use the tools AutoCAD provides for snapping to other entity features (endpoints, centers, etc)

 

Keep your eye on the commend line for available options and try them out - don't forget to use the help file when you do this.

 

Good luck.