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April 18, 2018

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Fuel Tank

Fuel Tank This would be a documentation of my journey in creating my pieces of the fuel tank. It would probably not be the most comprehensive tutorial as there is still a lot of learning needed especially in the final making of the skin itself. Here some beauty shots of my (2nd) attempt and probably best My group chose to do the Custom tank for a CB550: Andrew Wallace The Project can be divided into 3 stages Stage 1: Creating the CAD model Stage 2: Creating the pattern Stage 3: Creating the skin of the fuel tank ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage 1: Creating the CAD Model When opening the model without grasshopper in rhino, the model would not work and would look like this. Grasshopper must be installed as an extension into rhino and it would look like this. Afterwards you would need to bake the m...

Reflection

Digital Making was the first real experience in working with sheet metal. With the limited practice in the first few weeks on the basic skills, the fuel tank exercise was extremely challenging but rewarding. I’ve learnt a lot of new skills that I could apply to my studies and work in Industrial Design. Skills Learnt and Applications There are two main sets of skills learnt over the time of this course and the exercises, practical skills involving directly sheet metal and observational thinking skills about form in a broader context. Throughout this course, I was able to learn a variety of skills and tools such as stump shrinking, stretching by rolling on the English wheel and metal shaping with a female mould. I was also able to refine on existing skills like laser cutting, and CAD models. This course also gave me the opportunity to apply these skills and a combination of them to create the fuel tank, bowl, tray, torus and blister. I found each o...

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