Useless box

Hinge design - Practice

Components

Aircraft designs

Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk + Steps of creation

McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle + Arm

Hinge design - Practice

Inside cuts final

Pin final

Collision

Pin construction

Hinge construction

Components

During the research phase of the useless box, we were given partners to build and share components in Solidworks.

My components built (Top - battery and bottom motor)

My partner's (Top - Switch and Bottom - Limit switch)

Aircraft designs

Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk,

F/A-18 Super Hornet

Boeing CH-47 Chinook

Lockheed AC-130 Gunship

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

Boeing AH-64 Apache

F-35C Lightning II

Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor

Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

Bell AH-1Z Viper

Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk + Steps of creation

I began creating the aircraft models by using the Tools, Sketch Tools, Sketch picture, feature in solid works.

Where I would then take schematics from the internet and paste them onto the front, right, and top planes

Centering the image onto the origin

Making the image transparent

Final schematics

Sketch over the schematic

Mirror

Extrude

Repeat for each plane

Adjust as needed

Test print 1

I repeated the same exact steps for each individual aircraft

F/A-18 Super Hornet

Test print 1

Boeing CH-47 Chinook

Belt fed M240

Same process completed as the RQ4 but with a different image and I placed the planes on the sides of the Chinook

M240 with ACOG 4x32 with interchangable mag

First test prints

Fix 1- Larger rotors and larger wheels

Test print 2

(I ended up not using the CH-47 because the rotors kept falling off)

Lockheed AC-130 Gunship

Test print 1 - 3, the first fix was to make the fuselage thicker (shown in middle AC-130), the second was to print the body upright which helped greatly (Furthest right print)

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk

Test print 1

Test print 2

Fix 1 - larger rotors with angle

Boeing AH-64 Apache

Test print 1 and 2

Fix 1 - larger rotors and thicker tail fin

F-35C Lightning II

Test print 1

Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor

Test print 1

Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk

Test prints 1 and 2

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

Test print 1

McDonnell Douglas/Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

Test print 1

Bell AH-1Z Viper

Test print 1 and 2

(Did not use the AH-1z to to rotor head complications similar to the CH-47)

McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle + Arm

Test print 1 printed upright (Arm broke off with little force)

Test print 2 printed side ways to prevent supports from building inside the motor hole.

Test print 3 also printed sideways (motor hole was too loose)

Walls for hole broke of because of thickness

MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected)

Test print 1

Walls

Electrical/ Solder

Prusa slicers

Top hinge

Test print 1 (Too tight, not enough tolerance, middle hinge also broke off with accidental force)

Top door

Wall hinge (bottom)

Outer box design

A lot of aircraft were cut from the final model due to space constraints

Inside mechanics

Transparent images of mechanics

screen-capture-ezgif.com-video-speed.webm

Video of opening and closing of box in SolidWorks (Had tech issues creating GIF)

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse