Miatav8,MstrASE,A&P,F wrote:
Not sure what you mean by input generator. It appears to be a list of specs that have to be entered one at a time into vsusp.
MV8, you are right, for the T-Bird version what is “generated” is a list that needs to be keyed into Vsusp where the data gets recorded again. And on the spreadsheet, some of the data on page 1 is just copied to the list on page 2. Where this spreadsheet is useful to me is doing some of the math and helping keep track of other chassis parameters. I prefer to work in things like the drop in heights between the inner and outer pivots, etc. and then let the spreadsheet calculate the Y dimensions and the control arm lengths that Vsusp requires.
The Wilwood Mustang II version is a little different. It started life creating the 3D data points that need to be keyed into Wishbone. It does a whole lot of trigonometry calculations based on spindle geometry, caster, camber and a number of other Car9 chassis setup options. In the current version, the Vsusp list at the end is just a remapping of that 3D data, being mindful that Wishbone’s Z’s are Vsusp’s X’s, etc. And yup, it still needs to be keyed in.
So these two spreadsheets are definitely not rocket science, but they do help simplify, organize, pre-calculate and document things a bit, at least for me. And as the bard says, “Math Sucks.”
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I showed my specs photos by selecting the spindles tab then moving the cursor to where the dims of the arms were overlayed, selected "PrtScn" on the keyboard, then pasted that into paint and cropped.
Good tip, thanks. PrtScn and Paint are kind of low profile and easy to miss.