Originally Posted by LantanaTX
Street rodding is pretty big over here so drive line shops are fairly common. if there is a shop in france that builds american style street rods ('32 ford, 34 Ford etc.) they may have a source for you to get a drive shaft made. Also driveline shops often work with the big trucks. Hope you are able to resolve the problem.
"solidworks" sounds complicated!
There is a good tutoriel courses of solid works 2009, you can find torrents easily on the net

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Karim.