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Commercial sim advice

Discussion in 'Commercial Simulators and Peripherie' started by marco balletta, Jul 7, 2018.

  1. marco balletta

    marco balletta Member

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    Hi guys, I am interested in buying a car race sim rig. I found online the 3dof race simulator from dof reality, but I am also in love with the 4 dof racecube. The problem of the 4 dof is the price :-(

    Do you if is worth a 4 dof car racing simulator and if there is anything more affordable for 4 dof or if it is better to stick with a 3 dof ?
    marco balletta, Jul 7, 2018
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  2. joe extraknow

    joe extraknow Member Gold Contributor

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    My Motion Simulator:
    3DOF
    Number of DoFs is not correlated to the price or performance in terms of racing car simulator.

    D-box kit is 3dof but can cost you over $17k. The CXC 2dof costs you $60k. I bought several commerical simulators for racing only (both seat mover and frame mover). They are all in common as:
    1) HW: using geared motors or using Actuators;
    2) SW: using SimTool or in house own SW.

    I sent you a PM for my experiences.

    Best luck.
    joe extraknow, Jul 8, 2018
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  3. marco balletta

    marco balletta Member

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    Hi there ! Thank you for the dm!

    SimXperience 3 is too big for my space :(

    I need something that is not bigger than the dimensions of a

    Racing cube 4dof

    Or the

    Dofreality

    It has to be compact
    marco balletta, Jul 8, 2018
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  4. GT3 Porsche

    GT3 Porsche New Member Gold Contributor

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    My Motion Simulator:
    6DOF
    I paid USD14000.00 plus spent another 10K (3 curved screens . Pc ,sli etc
    6DOF is king and worth saving for .
    It’s s cruden hexagon Chinese copy , cruden wanted 180K for it
    Ps closed motion software and THANOS jail breaked it, nobody on the planet wanted to touch it ..... he’s a god.

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    GT3 Porsche, Aug 5, 2018
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  5. Thanos

    Thanos Building the Future one AC Servo at a time... or 6

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    My Motion Simulator:
    AC motor, Motion platform, 4DOF, 6DOF
    Thank you, but I really think you should create a YouTube channel and post some videos of the platform in action with Simtools. Create a dedicated thread for your simulator and post there the videos and details on the hardware. People need to see that anything is possible with these great servo actuators...

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    Thanos, Aug 6, 2018
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