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Printed Parts Help
Students to Victory at
F1 in Schools 2009
World Championship
Redline Racing — a team of students
from Trinity Christian School in
Canberra, Australia — won the Fastest
Car Award at the F1 in Schools 2009
Technology Challenge recently held in because a more accurate part can be
London. Competing against 31 finalists produced using this technology than
from 20 countries, the team also can be achieved with the balsa wood.”
reached 2nd place overall at the World Team-mate Alistair Smith elaborated,
Championships in which students were “The rules are very precise, cars can
judged on their design, development, weigh a minimum of 55 grams with a
engineering and presentation skills in +/-0.5 gram tolerance and wheels
their pursuit to develop a model F1 can have a minimum diameter of 26
racing car. mm with a +/- 0.1 mm tolerance. In
The front and rear aerofoils and order to attain the minimum possible
elements of the wheel mechanisms weight and wheel size to gain extra
and axel supports of Redline Racing’s speed, it’s critical that the parts are as
winning F1 car were produced using accurate as possible.”
the Objet Alaris 30 3D printer. The Redline Racing team clocked
According to F1 in Schools the fastest time of 1.055 seconds on
regulations, whilst the body of each the 20 metre, time-trial track. Although
car must be made from a single block aiming for sub-one-second, the team
of balsa wood, other parts may be won three out of three races and were
produced from other, non-metallic satisfied with their accomplishment.
materials. Redline Racing team
member James Mazengarb explained, Objet Geometries GmbH
“We used Objet printed components, W:
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3D Mice Help Design Engineers Work Faster and Smarter
3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, new Rapid Dimension Tool with a 3D
has announced that its full line of 3D mouse, designers can position
mice, including the SpacePilot PRO drawing views and add dimensions to
flagship 3D mouse, now supports generate final drawings with greater
SolidWorks 2010, the newest version ease and efficiency. In addition, 3D
of the popular 3D CAD software. mice complement the functionality of
3Dconnexion 3D mice complement new Mouse Gestures in SolidWorks
the new user-driven features in 2010, for drawings, assemblies, parts
SolidWorks 2010 that help designers and sketches, helping engineers
and engineers work faster and smarter. concentrate on design needs instead
Using 3Dconnexion’s 3D mice of the application environment.
within SolidWorks 2010 allows “SolidWorks 2010 is focused on
professionals to navigate around their optimising core design functions so
designs more intuitively, further users can more quickly and
enhancing the speed improvements intelligently achieve their goals,” said
made to rendering, loading parts and Nick Iwaskow, Manager of Alliances at
large assemblies in the new 3D Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp.
workspace. In addition, 3D mice “Using a 3Dconnexion 3D mouse with
enable engineers working in SolidWorks 2010 can help today’s
SolidWorks 2010 to view designs from engineers work even faster, simpler
multiple angles, helping to detect and smarter.”
errors earlier in the design process.
3Dconnexion’s 3D mice also 3Dconnexion
enhance new features of SolidWorks W:
www.3dconnexion.com/
2010. For example, when using the solutions
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