Thursday 1 May 2014

Concept Prototyping - Rapid Prototyping the Unibody



For my exploded model I want to present all the parts as they would be if manufactured for real. The most complicated part of the entire design is the injection moulded unibody, which has the responsibility of holding all the components of the camera together. With more than a dozen separate jobs to do, the unibody contains lots of details which would otherwise go un-noticed in a plain visual model. Therefore, I have decided to use our FDM rapid prototyping equipment to print a copy of the unibody and other components so that I can present a 100% accurate version of the body and demonstrate the intense levels of detailed embedded in the design of the camera.