For my first year Engineering Design Project, I was tasked to model 22 parts from engineering drawings, assemble them together, and redesign a flywheel. The redesigned flywheel had to weigh less than 35g and have a moment of inertia of over 50 kg(mm)^2. This was all done on SolidWorks.

To practice my skills on a new CAD program I redid this project utilizing the tools in Fusion 360. Tools such as the create solid allowed me to save time with simple parts, such as the piston cylinder, where I created 2 cylinders, cut a hole, and added chamfers.

Parts such as the top plate, bottom plate and flywheel were created using a CNC machine, while parts such as the piston con rod, displacer rod and displacer con rod were machined using a guillotine to cut it t the correct length and a fly press to form the ends of the rods.

The video below shows the Stirling engine in motion, one with no thermal load, one with thermal load and a motion render.