3D cad drivers

[paulspencer]

Some of us DIYers also have CAD skills and like to model our speakers in 3D before we build. I was thinking it would be good to get a list together of downloadable 3D CAD files of popular DIY drivers. Anyone interested?

I have a number of 3D cad drivers, most only showing the exterior accurately, although I do have a very accurate model of the AV12, which was measured from the actual driver with a pair of calipers. If you have any to share, please post images here and I will see if I can put together a link list on my site, and possibly set up one online location where they can all be downloaded.

Here's an image of my AV12 model. It is accurate to within a fraction of a mm:

[RHosch]

I think this is a great idea. I have a few crude exterior models of TC Sounds subs and some Vifa and Seas drivers, but these were just roughed-in to avoid interferences in cabinet design. The 2D dimensions provided on most spec sheets don't give enough information for me to consider any of them more useful than as I used them above.

I have a few of Stryke/AE upcoming drivers' basket structures modeled accurately from production drawings, but I'm not sure if I have permission to share these with the community.

The AV12 looks great. That basket is used on many speakers, which in itself would be nice to have access to.

[paulspencer]

If you have concerns I imagine you could always ask, but if you consider its use being for diyers to visualise their designs, and to make drawings for 3d sections of their boxes etc ... I can't see any harm.

[ksl]

then, there should be also a unified format for the file. IGES?

[paulspencer]

Ideally yes but I don't think there will be enough for us to be that picky! Basically I'd be happy to put together a list and take what we can get. I work in autocad and don't have access to that format. Now possibly with some collaboration we can get them into a few different formats that will help. Mine are all using AutoCAD solid modelling, now suppose someone else had another format and could convert AutoCAD to another format ... but I imagine that most programs would be able to take AutoCAD format.

[Centauri]

Here's a couple of views of my Beyma 12LX60 model.

[Centauri]

...and an Eminence Alpha 6.

Both these also in AutoCad.

Cheers

[paulspencer]

Nice work, and they are quite detailed! (I never went as far as doing spring terminals) ... I find the spiders are the worst thing to do!

Hopefully we will see some more

[Vikash]

http://www.vikash.info/3d_modeling/

[bhg41088]

thats freaking awesome.