How to find 3D Technical drawings?

[jeffmorris]

How do I find 3D technical drawings of automotive products?

[awerby]

You might check GrabCAD: https://grabcad.com/library/category/automotive

Or the 3D Parts Community: https://b2b.partcommunity.com/Baldor...baldor%2Fdodge

Also, some manufacturers are starting to release their CAD models: https://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2012...-tech-transfer

Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com

[jeffmorris]

SEMA wants $360 per year just to look at CAD models! I'm not sure about shop manuals for cars. GrabCAD is OK.

[LambdaFF]

A lot of bearing / screws / nuts manufacturers give the models for free. See SKF for instance.

As for actual automotive components, not so much, the idea is that it may generate 2 problems :
- loss of spares sales
- loss of product image due to under-performing copies.

Most of the models available online are just the outline, not functional components.

[CarterTG]

Places I've bookmarked:

Isometric vehicle drawings
http://www.the-blueprints.com

OBJ and LWO car models
http://www.dmi-3d.net

[jeffmorris]

I found exploded drawings for an automatic transmission used on General Motors FWD compact cars. It has three speeds. I know that there is 6-speed automatic transmission on Thingiverse website. Is it possible to convert a 6-speed transmission into a 3-speed transmission?