Autocad

Do you think you can sell enough of them to recover the cost of the tooling?

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Yeah that's the qestion. What does your friend estimate the cost will be to make the tooling? Everyone thinks parts like these should be relatively cheap, and they are if you're only paying for the raw material and molding, but.... the cost of tooling needs to be amortized into the final price. The more you sell, the cheaper the piece price. If you get serious, you need a business plan. And would Fiat/Chrysler consider this a licensable product?

Constructive criticism:
1. The thin strip of material under the radio area is an egg just waiting to be broken. (and you have to consider the knit line) I'd consider leaving that area competely blank and let the buyer custom cut whatever he needs. I guess if someone wants to install this custom dash, they'd probably not be too concerned with a factory radio.
2. The heater control area as shown does not allow for factory A/C controls. But that area can be inserted in the tool to allow either one or even left blank. Maybe someone doesn't want to run a heater and would rather use that space for switches, shift light, line-loc light, etc.

If I didn't enjoy perusing FABO during lunch at work so much, I could probably whip up the basic shape pretty quickly. I even have a spare dash insert and frame at home to reverse engineer.
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Pro/Engineer user since 93 including 6 years doing plastic vacuum cleaner parts. Solidworks is a pretty good imitation of Pro/E by the way :yawinkle: