Cams AE85 build from NZ

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Well this is totally out of order but I've spent the last few hours playing on SolidWorks and I wanted to share what I've come up with

I wanted to be able to visualise and play with some different roll cage designs before I took the car to the fabricators so I dusted off my mechanical desgin hat (I'm an electronics engineer most of the time) and whipped up a few concepts. The results are below. Basic steps were to import a blueprint drawing of the car, start placing points in 3 dimensional space, connect them up and then create the actual tubes around the line drawing.

I'm pretty happy with how it's come up but any input would be greatly appreciated! This is the first time I've got a cage put in a car so all I'm going by is photos of others peoples designs and what I 'think' would be good.

In NZ most roll cages are built from mild steel tube in 38.1mm OD and 2.5mm wall thickness. The weight of the tubes for my design will be around 56kg, plus the mounting points and whatnot.