Wednesday 23 May 2018

BEIL0014 Digital Making - Assignment 2: 1:1 Scale Fuel Tank

Introduction:

The project 2 is required to create an 1:1 scale motorcycle fuel tank. In this project, I cooperated with other 9 students to used to 3D software, and laser cutting machines to make the laser cutting template.And We 10 students were separated to 2 groups to do make the model.

1:1 real fuel tank



Group member:

FEIMO             SONG
YIKAI              CHANG
TIANSHUO     LIU
GENGCHEN   YANG
JICHAO           GUO

Our group photo



STEP 1:

We download the model file from the Moodle 

After we put the file into the Slicer, The template of laser cutting file will be created by this softer ware. 




We assembles and glue all of the templates together after laser cutting
 
The laser cutting templates


Process of assembling the laser cutting model



The finished laser cutting model






STEP 2:

At this step, we assigned task to each of person to make the model.

kai will do the left part of model
feimo will do the right part of model 
Tianshuo and Jichao will do the top part 
I will improve each parts of model

The pictures below is the process of making the model

 
At the first part of making model. we used the paper to cut the form of each part of model we need to make, and use use pen to mark the aluminium pieces, which will be better for us to cut it. 


At second part, we start to use the english wheel and pinching the meta to rough the shape of model .



Step 3:

This step mainly focus on polishing the model and put it together to measure if each parts are coincided with the laser cutting template. And do further improvement to make it same shape with the laser cutting model. 








Step 4:  The final step was polishing the panels. 







One part finished


Finished Model: