Hi i'm nick, and I just joined.

This is my first post. I came across this site, looking for some info and thought maybe someone here might be able to help.

I am looking for a program that will allow me to create: (Gears,Motors,Propellers,Wheels,Shafts and other stuff as well), put it together and simulate it in a virtual world. I want to be able to make and simulate cars, or planes and make it the way I would like, so I can make things and see how they would react in the real world, instead of doing it by hand as I am a little short on supplies.


Any help would be great

Thanks,
nick

You'll need to look into a CAD program and FEA system in order to do that. Solidworks, Catia, ProEngineer, and others will allow you to model your parts. Solidworks has built in FEA system and others do as well, or you can look into a 3rd party FEA system for part analysis. Regardless, these systems are EXPENSIVE. And have a big learning curve if you're not use to modeling or have any FEA experience.

I have used Autodesk Inventor and Auto CAD before, Not a virtual world but you can make gears have them mesh and turn together.

Thanks for the fast reply(s), any info helps out.

I was thinking about buying "RealFlight 4.5" which will cost about 200.00. Is there like a hobby shop in the game where you can create your own planes and fly them in the program, as this is the most realistic way to learn how to fly planes. Just don't know if you could make whatever you want from scratch?

Again thanks for the help.

As far I know, thats not possible at all.

And Autodesk Inventor is another really nice program as well, that RC 18 MT mentioned. These programs cost thousands and thousands of dollars though. If you're looking into modeling, testing, and producing these parts, you're going to have to go that route unless you pay someone else to do it. Even then, you'll need to do real world tests. Simulations aren't perfect.

Thanks to everyone, just checking if anything like that was available.

I will look into trying out Autodesk Inventor.

Thanks again.