Today we worked on the trailing edge of the submarine. Here's what we had done by day's end.
This project is a great application of basic math. We used a sketch of the hull inner profile that we generated in SolidWorks to determine the diameter of the circles at intervals equal to the polystyrene board thickness. Then we used a little trigonometry to calculate the taper for each disc. Using a tilthead bandsaw and a little jig we made, the discs are cut in no time. It's always a reward when you cut a disc and it fits perfectly in the stack.
SolidWorks is a really useful 3D CAD software, and we could have had the polystyrene cut out on a CNC machine if we were more skilled in its use. Unfortunately, no one on the team is proficient in 3D CAD. This is one skill we need to pick up before we start our next project.
This project is a great application of basic math. We used a sketch of the hull inner profile that we generated in SolidWorks to determine the diameter of the circles at intervals equal to the polystyrene board thickness. Then we used a little trigonometry to calculate the taper for each disc. Using a tilthead bandsaw and a little jig we made, the discs are cut in no time. It's always a reward when you cut a disc and it fits perfectly in the stack.
SolidWorks is a really useful 3D CAD software, and we could have had the polystyrene cut out on a CNC machine if we were more skilled in its use. Unfortunately, no one on the team is proficient in 3D CAD. This is one skill we need to pick up before we start our next project.
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