playing with CAD - historic & hobby projects
| Software used
| Date
| Modell
| Lessons learned
| Image
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| Dassault/IBM CATIA V5
| 1999 -
| design and construction of 4-wheel vehicle (hobby project)
| basic 3D CAD, hierarchical object management,
export to Trumpf Laser (Witec AG),
further metal workshop skills,
kinematics
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| 2003
| Fhg-ISE off-axis parabolic mirror (Mg material 500mm x 400mm)
| constraints on CNC tool paths
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| 2002
| hobby computer chassis (PC104 hardware, black PE-HD material)
| 3 axis CNC milling (using a Maho 600-E2),
tool path strategies,
basics of mold design.
Actually this dataset was the first CAM data
to be used at Fraunhofer-ISE with a milling machine. Feeding it into the
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| 1999
| (domestic) roof structure (5m x 1.5m, 1 metric ton load, S355J2G3 steel)
| designing CAD model for simulation use, example of finite element stress simulation
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| Hewlett-Packard/CoCreate ME10
| 1997-1998
| hobby 4-wheel vehicle design
| export to laser cutting machine (St37 plates),
most complex design done at FhG-ISE using the ME10 CAD program (image on left shows 10%)
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| 1989
| FhG-ISE diploma work, gonio-photometer
| inaugurated HP's ME10 at FhG-ISE
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| pre-CAD phase
| 1989
| diploma work, design & construction of a gonio-photometer
| 3D view of the machine, rendered with Rayshade
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| it started with no CAD at all. This particular sub assembly is made of 61 parts, the struts of which I had machined myself.
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A very big thank-you to all who allowed me access to their equipment and taught me a lot:
