[Barneel]

Hi,

It's a long shot, I did a bit of research before creating this thread and found nothing. Also saw a few threads from couple of years ago that also yielded nothing, perhaps something new has come up?!

I'm looking for a mechanical drawing/CAD file of a Lotus car (not fussy about which!)... Does anyone have anything like this? File type shouldn't really be an issue.

Thanks for your help in advance...

 

[<@¿@>]

You know you are asking for Lotus intellectual property... I would like to have that too, but...

 

[enderw88]

Like this:

or this:

or this:

 

[roblotus79]

Or this?

Lotus Other N A | eBay

 

[doug_porsche]

Or this?

Lotus Other N A | eBay

Ya know, that is very tempting.

Resist, I dont need them. Resist

 

[TeamChin7]

Think I have a crude side view of an Elise in .dwg format...I can email it to you if you're interested...

 

[Barneel]

Or this?

Lotus Other N A | eBay

I want this now.

Like this:
http://enderw88.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/lotus23.jpg

or this:
http://enderw88.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/sevencut.png

or this:
http://enderw88.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/sevenm1.png

Thanks, I'll try and convert and scale them into a dwg format. If not perhaps I'll do the old trace-job!

You know you are asking for Lotus intellectual property... I would like to have that too, but...

Haha, I know - I was asking for a re-draw really. Although I would love to see the originals! I don't, however, have access to a piece of Catia software anyway and have never used it - which I believe is the software Lotus use... Perhaps its convertible into a Solidworks format as its owned by the same company!? (Dassault Systemes)



Thanks for all your responses!

 

[Aedo]

Hi,

It's a long shot, I did a bit of research before creating this thread and found nothing. Also saw a few threads from couple of years ago that also yielded nothing, perhaps something new has come up?!

I'm looking for a mechanical drawing/CAD file of a Lotus car (not fussy about which!)... Does anyone have anything like this? File type shouldn't really be an issue.

Thanks for your help in advance...

For aesthetic or engineering purposes?

Or this?

Lotus Other N A | eBay

Awesome!!!

 

[Barneel]

For aesthetic or engineering purposes?

For Engineering purposes! Just as a hobby.

They're fun to play around with.

 

[Aedo]

Have you looked at the Locost roadster? It is a copy of a Lotus 7 and the plans are readily available. A quick search turned up these links:
Building a Sevenesque Roadster - plans
LocostUSA.com ? View topic - Dimensions of SV Chassis?

 

[Barneel]

Have you looked at the Locost roadster? It is a copy of a Lotus 7 and the plans are readily available. A quick search turned up these links:
Building a Sevenesque Roadster - plans
LocostUSA.com ? View topic - Dimensions of SV Chassis?

This is great! Thanks!

I'm currently working on a re-draw of the lotus23 enderw88 posted, so I'll post that once I'm done! Without exact dimensions though I'm going to have to assume some dimensions and curves...

 

[Aedo]

Look forward to your results

 

[enderw88]

This is great! Thanks!

I'm currently working on a re-draw of the lotus23 enderw88 posted, so I'll post that once I'm done! Without exact dimensions though I'm going to have to assume some dimensions and curves...

Look up the wheelbase and track and use those dimensions to scale from.

 

[Barneel]

Look up the wheelbase and track and use those dimensions to scale from.

I have done - once I scale to one dimension the others don't seem to match up. I have tried both Lotus23 and Lotus23C dimensions.

Perhaps I could use the wheel size to scale it - assuming the drawing has been drawn to an accurate scale.. which may not be the case.

 

[Barneel]

Heres my re-draw of the side-on view of a Lotus 23:

Also here it is in AutoCAD with the layers being divided by colour. Thought it looked pretty neat... Although its not perfect:

 

[mo02]

That looks well done...other views next?

 

[Barneel]

That looks well done...other views next?

Might move on to them in the next few days... I prefer working to exact dimensions though. Still fun working out what's what though