This intro video gives an overview of the BikeCAD.ca website along with some of the features of BikeCAD and BikeCAD Pro.
- Downloading BikeCAD Pro.
- Removing old versions of BikeCAD on a PC
- Installing BikeCAD Pro on Linux, Mac, PC.
- Installing on Windows 11.
- MacOS BigSur in Full screen mode
- Finding where BikeCAD Pro has been installed on a PC.
- Adding an icon to the start menu on Windows 10.
- Differences between Linux, Mac and PC versions.
- Updating BikeCAD Pro.
- A simple approach to Updating BikeCAD Pro.
- Launching BikeCAD Pro from a batch file.
- Free standalone version of BikeCAD.
- Installing on a Chromebook
- Placing a desktop icon on a Chromebook.
- Launching the free version of BikeCAD.
- Opening and saving designs online in BikeCAD Pro.
- Saving designs in the free version of BikeCAD.
- Setting permission levels when saving BikeCAD files online.
- Drag and Drop files into BikeCAD Pro.
- An extra note about dragging and dropping.
- Finding files quickly in the File Open dialog box.
- BikeCAD Pro Key (for saving designs online).
- Double clicking a file to open it in BikeCAD Pro.
- Displaying components, views, animation and crosshairs.
- Display modes
- Wheel display can be toggled through 4 levels of detail.
- Auxiliary views of stays.
- Changing outline thickness.
- Zooming in and out.
- Lock scale.
- Showing gearing data.
- Showing toe overlap.
- Showing lean angle.
- Importing photos.
- UCI regulations.
- Morph one model into another and save as animated GIF.
- Snapshot tool (must be enabled as described here)
- Aerobars (top view)
- Controlling hub display
- Showing dimensions
- Creating user dimensions
- Showing minimum tube lengths.
- Dimension color
- Creating angular dimensions with respect to horizontal
- Controlling line weight of dimensions.
- Interior and miter angles.
- Adding on-screen notes.
- Toe clearance dimension from ISO 4210-2: 4.13.2.2.
- Steering geometry related dimension from ISO 4210-2: Annex A, b)
- Chainline
- Horizontally oriented dimensions
- Highlighting dimensions and tables
- Custom standover height
- Toggling dimension states.
- Stack and reach to top of headset.
- Displaying angle of attack.
- Dimensions helpful for mitering to tapered head tubes.
- Defining front end geometry through front center, effective top tube length, handlebar position or stack and reach.
- Defining front end geometry in 6 different ways.
- Establishing saddle position by saddle height and seat angle or by X and Y coordinates.
- Controlling the rear end by chain stay length or by rear wheel gap. A note about bent tubes.
- Driving frame geometry by rear axle to seat tube.
- Looped stays.
- Display chainstay cutouts or dimples.
- Lock frame.
- Seat stay mounting options.
- Attaching seat stays to seat tube, but measuring from top tube.
- Discontinuous seat tube option for beam bike design
- Seat tube top profile.
- Primary dimensions.
- Extension of head tube and seat tube above top tube and below down tube.
- Tube profiles.
- Elliptical (ovalized) tubes.
- Defining head tube profiles.
- Curving tubes.
- Curved stay bridges.
- Identifying problematic curves in BikeCAD Pro.
- Alternate method for specifying curved tubes
- Removing tubes.
- Adding extra tubes.
- Extra tubes connected at only one end.
- Fillets
- Offsetting seat tube, down tube, or chain stays at the bottom bracket.
- Mitering the seat tube to the down tube or chain stays.
- Lugs
- Designing a frame to suit predefined lug angles.
- Bridges (modeling chain stay and seat stay bridges for locating caliper brakes).
- Cable guides and holes for internal cable routing.
- Locating cable guides from either end of tube.
- Cantilever brake bosses.
- Adding chainstay yokes.
- Single sided yokes applied to both drive and non-drive side.
- Seatpost clamp, binder bolt or wedge.
- Adding water bottles.
- Locating water bottle bosses from either end of the tube.
- Positioning water bottles.
- Adding single water bottle bosses.
- AI Tool
- Tandems
- Designing a mixte.
- Step through frame.
- Pinion Gearbox
- Shimano Steps electric drive.
- Motor cabinet for Shimano E6000 series STEPS system.
- Fitting bike in a travel case.
- Bakfiets style cargo bikes.
- Selecting dropouts from static drawings.
- Controlling dropout spacing.
- Orienting the angle of the slot.
- Offset rear dropouts for fatbike tire clearance.
- Using Allotec C40 modular dropouts.
- Accounting for T-Type rear derailleur mounting.
- Adjusting axle position in track and sliding dropouts
- Chain or belt drive.
- Adding components to standard parts libraries
- Lefty forks and inverted suspension forks.
- Checking fork crown clearance.
- Disc brakes.
- Model a one piece handlebar and stem.
- Brake lever styles.
- Locating front caliper brake.
- Front derailleur.
- Stems (modeling quill stems).
- Saddle fore and aft positioning.
- Saddle reference point.
- Capping the saddle clamp on a seatpost.
- Seatmast
- Dropper seatposts
- Dropper post maximum and current drop.
- Constant diameter seatposts
- Down tube and bar end shifters.
- Fenders
- Saddle dimensions
- Water bottle cages.
- Custom battery design.
- Adding frame pump.
- Mountain bar bend angle.
- Rise applied at angle in drop handlebars.
- Enve handlebars.
- New brake levers in Version 18.0.
- Mixing belt and chain drives on a tandem
- Modeling flat top chains.
- Modeling parallelogram style flat pedals.
- Paint schemes.
- Copy and pasting colors.
- Fork paint scheme.
- Freehand drawing.
- Naming freehand drawing sketches.
- Configuring paint palettes.
- Including stem, headset spacers, and pump in paint scheme.
- Brand logos.
- Decal text angle.
- Adding fonts.
- Serotta font.
- Standard fonts used by cycling brands.
- Changing logos.
- Cycling brand dingbats.
- Using the Fit adviser.
- Customizing the Fit adviser.
- Customizing fit formulas.
- Applying recommended dimensions.
- New outputs for the fit advisor.
- Approximating missing dimensions.
- Determining rider anatomy from 6 basic dimensions.
- Controlling rider anatomy in BikeCAD Pro.
- Modifying torso shape. Also note about removal of gender types in BikeCAD version 20.
- Difference between two Rider anatomy tabs.
- Rider position.
- Positioning cleats.
- Tweak hand position
- Switching helmet styles
- Saddle to pedal dimensions.
- Capturing rider geometry on your own website through PHP script.
- Modeling Center of mass.
- Using templates in BikeCAD Pro.
- Quickly changing colors, hiding components and editing geometry.
Title block and drawing border
- Setting up the title block.
- Adding your logo to the title block.
- Adding vector logos to the title block.
- Optimizing space in a drawing of a bare frame.
- Framing your design within the drawing border.
- Fitting a frame within a limited sheet size.
- Defining a custom aspect ratio for drawings.
- Adding tables to a drawing.
- Modifying title block color and gridline weights.
- Importing tabular data from CSV file.
- Customizing BikeCAD Pro.
- Configuration files in BikeCAD Pro.
- Specifying a new location for configuration files.
- Changing GUI font and text size.
- Customize Input field width.
- Changing icon size.
- Customizing the splash screen.
- Changing the look and feel.
- Changing the language.
- Language translation.
- Managing dialog boxes.
- Reversing the effect of the scroll wheel.
- Editing the view menu.
- Managing dialog boxes in single and dual monitor setups.
- Setting number of files in recent files list.
- CSV
- Optaining older version formatting in CSV files.
- Tabulating specs from multiple bikes.
- Driving vs. driven dimensions in CSV files.
- DXF
- Multi-model PDF
- Miter templates
- Miter templates at motor mount and for hooded dropouts.
- Printing miter templates (Do not scale prints)
- Bulk export PDF and SVG files
- Installing FreeCAD on MacOS
- Installing requests library on FreeCAD
- Installing requests library on FreeCAD (an alternate approach)
- Exporting to FreeCAD
- Head tube logo (Exporting to FreeCAD)
- Rear dropout spacing for thru axle dropouts
- Exporting dropouts to FreeCAD
- Photorealistic rendering using FreeCAD and CADRays