AIRCRAFT ENGINE IS PRINTED FULL SIZE IN 3D

摘要

A turbo-prop engine, 3m long and with a blade span of 3.2m has been mocked up full size using 188 parts as a demonstration. Full sized mockups greatly assist studies of assembly, maintenance and look and feel, and the automotive industry makes such mockups out of clay andrnfoam all the time, mostly using old fashioned hand methods.rnThe mocked up engine in this case was designed by Nino Caldarola, a freelance designer for Autodesk using its Inventor 2010 software and the ABS parts were made using Stratsys fused deposition modelling.rnThe engine's gear box includes two sets of gears that move in counter rotation to each other.