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CAD tool for bicycle frame design

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Laszlo said:
cervelo is using solidworks; and they're not posting any cad models either ( I asked)

Did you really expect them to?

Those CAD models are Cervelo's secret sauce, such as it is; I don't think they really want Double Happiness Novelty Toilet Cleaner and Carbon Fabrication Company of Wuhan, China just downloading the CAD drawings and doing exact knockoffs.
 
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I'm pretty sure they can do well enough with or without the cad files; the bikes are made under license, and fairly straight forward too. maybe...theres some carbon weave magic that hides some propietary secret- but that will apply to only some of their frames. At any rate I really did not see the big deal; I can get profiles of all kinds of cars aircraft etc. I did not think a bike frame would be any different.