Collab 2020: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[Ingmar Franz]

Oh no, it has two wheels and one axle more🤪.

[Ingmar Franz]

Maybe this helps further:

[Ingmar Franz]

@spikeyxxx Do you already know these Cat 434E front axle images?

And the front differential:

[spikeyxxx]

Oh that’s great! Just when I was about to loose hope;) Thanks a lot @duerer !

My biggest problem is not enough pictures.

Although this one is a little different from the other picture, it still very helpful, because this show it from the other side and the close-up of the differential is also fantastic!

Again, thank you!

[Omar Domenech]

Dude this helps a lot, thanks, I can see further details that before I could only guess…. aaaand that thing on the side is welded, that’s going to be a nightmare.

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@blanchsb   

I don’t think you’ll have to spread the loader arms out much further. I believe the problem lies with my initial extrusion to a detail I should have inset instead. I’ve highlighted the offending extrusion in red below at the 1st clash of the blends point.

Insetting that detail plus narrowing the engine enclosure by a hair towards the back should sort that problem right out. Unfortunately I’m unable to work on the model until this weekend.

@adrian2301  Thanks for the top view find. The taper @luthier had talked on the stream about was towards the front of the enclosure instead of towards the cab. Still, from the top view reference you found, it does seem that the part of the enclosure with that inset seems a bit narrower than the rest of the enclosure towards the back.

[Kent Trammell]

Ahh I was wrong about the engine closure taper. It thins toward the cab . Fascinating. Never would have guessed that without the top-down view. Great find @adrian2301!

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Ok everyone, There is so much going on in the DOG Pound it’s getting a little unsafe around here, so I have managed to come up with some safety gear for everyone.

@theluthier @dostovel @blanchsb @jakeblended @shanr @ketre @spikeyxxx @ryzen7 @doulos4iesou @duerer @hellosudeepsingh @pfbourassa  @artifact 

[spikeyxxx]

Cheers Adrian! I appreciate that!

(Nice ‘The invisible man’ reference,,,)

[Shawn Blanch]

Let’s keep him visible this way we don’t run over him LOL

[Ingmar Franz]

Maybe he (or she?) is a little bit shy😉?

[Adrian Bellworthy]

@duerer I saw a post earlier from you about the axle attaching to the chassis, unfortunately I read it on my phone and couldn’t reply, now I can’t seem to find it, can you give me some directions. Thanks.

[Ingmar Franz]

I’m just trying to align the rear axle with the chassis and the wheels, but I can only make it fit with the one or the other. The red element of the rear axle has to be attached with 4 bolts on both ends to the chassis where 4 bolt holes are needed:

I’ve created a smaller file with just the chassis, the rims/hubs and the rear axle here.

[Ingmar Franz]

I’ve updated it. You can find it below this post in the next reply section.

[Adrian Bellworthy]

I can adjust the chassis as needed no problem, if its lower, higher, left or right I can adjust accordingly.If you sort your wheels out and best guess the location of the bolt positions in relation to the axle and I can then adjust the chassis to fit. Probably the best approach, as the chassis will hardly be visible when done, as long it doesn’t interfere else where not an issue. If we still have a problem then we can solve it then. The chassis has few images, only drawings that are not really clear, so it is more a task of align to other parts.

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