Sprint 1 Milestone - From MTK to CADQuery to 3D Printer
Drum roll please.....
I am very happy to announce that the Yavin team has successfully demonstrated the end to end vision of doing an analysis in MTK, integrating that analysis into a CAD model in CADQuery, and then manufacturing the part using a 3D printer. Take a look at these photos to see the whole story.
We start the process by coding up the engineering analysis in Python on documenting/verifying the analysis in MTK.| |
| Yavin MTK Document |
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| Yavin Modeling in CADQuery |
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| Sliced Yavin Geometry Preview |
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| Completed 3D Print of Yavin Demo Chamber |
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And here are the results! Look at how closely the printed part matches the CAD geometry from a visual inspection. Note, this is just a demonstration model. We have not calibrated any of our printers, so we are not going for engineering precision or strength (yet).
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| Printed Part | CAD Geometry |
And here is another view of the printed part.
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| Inside View of Printed Part |
Finally, I took a couple of measurements using my calipers. I measured the wall thickness to be about 4.1 +/- 0.1 mm (compared to a calculated value of 3.8 mm in MTK). And the inner diameter of the chamber was 39.8 +/- 0.1 mm (compared to a specified radius of 20.0 mm, or a diameter of 40.0 mm). Not too shabby for an uncalibrated printer just printing a demonstration model.
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