Designed a cue on computer - Take a look

[geocheren]

I was bored this afternoon, so I decided to see if i could design a cue with Solidworks. The picture below is a result of my boredom. It was inspired by Dominiak's Electron, and Sweet 16 and Predator's Leopard P2. Its basically a Sweet 16 with alternating woods like in the Leopard P2, with 4 points and 2 veneers. The wrap area is the electron design by Dominiak, while the buttsleeve is the upper part of the forearm. Tell me what you think.

There wasnt many wood types to choose from to show the grain, and each wood type that had good grain was a darker wood, the wood colors probably wasnt the best choice, but it looks good for something I threw together in an afternoon

 

[mmwtdh]

Too busy.........

 

[curlyscues]

looks pretty good to me. keep playing with it, you might come up with some quite ineresting stuff.
M.C.

 

[AZE]

Nice work... That's a pretty cool looking stick.

 

[geocheren]

Thanks...I'll keep playing with the software to see what else I can do with it

 

[Thecoats]

Looks cool, not real crazy about the taper or the lack of a joint screw, just kidding, nice work.

 

[iowa_player]

Thanks...I'll keep playing with the software to see what else I can do with it

Looks nice what is the software and where can i get it ?

Thanks Larry

 

[Moco]

I think that looks awsome. Seems like cool software, will have to take a look at that myself.

 

[matcase]

creative, I bet you do a whole bunch of them in the next few weeks.

 

[geocheren]

The software is called Solidworks, it is used in engineering to make solid objects in 3D, and you can make objects from other smaller objects. For this cue there were 5 main objects, the pie shaped wedge, point, point-veneer, wrap, and wrap-veneer. The forearm has 8 pie wedge pieced together, and then cut for the points, then points with 2 point-veneers are attached to the forearm. The wrap is the electron design by William Dominiak, he said that its basically the butterfly design except its a full butterfly, not just top like in most forearms, and then rotated 90 degrees and repeated until complete. And the butt sleeve is just the forearm cut to where the point meets the pie wedge.

The Solidworks program I used was provided by my school. There is a way to obtain it without purchase, but it is not legal, so I would not recommend it. It takes some time to learn how to use the program. It can be pretty difficult if you dont have any background in CAD.

 

[geocheren]

Recognize this cue?

I just finished another cue on Solidworks, it was longer than the previous one, but this time it was based on a real one with guessimated dimensions. This cue should look familiar, I just made some minor changes to it, such as sharp points and different border colors.

 

[AMoney]

Predator SE or LE (not sure the #)?

I think it was one made by Pechauer, right?

Alvin

 

[geocheren]

That is correct, it is a predator. To be precise, it is a Predator SE4 made by Pechauer.

 

[SpiderWebComm]

Very impressive w/ SolidWorks- not an easy program to use.

Your first design looks similar to some Phillippi cues I've seen in the past, although I'm going off of memory.

 

[geocheren]

Yeah, I'm slowly getting use to the hang of the program. Maybe one day I'll design my own cue with this program

 

[MikeJanis]

geocheren, your work looks pretty nice. You seem to have a good talent. If you would like a chance to see your cue made, please send your best original design to me or Viking Cue Mfg. If they like it they, will build the 1st one for you then possibly offer it to their dealers in their line.


Mj

 

[geocheren]

Thanks Mike, Right now I have nothing good enough to call my own design. Once I do come up with something that I think is good enough, I'll post it and see what happens.