Review of product dev and simulation - Fusion 360 Tutorial

- [Instructor] Thanks for joining me in this course, composite design and manufacturing, part two. This course is building upon what we talked about in part one. And in part one, we covered the composite materials themselves. So we talked about the matrix, the fiber reinforcement, different types of manufacturing, different types of weaves and how those all go together and work. So if you're familiar with that, you can go ahead and just join us right here in part two. If you're not really familiar with that process, then I'd recommend going back to part one and watching that course. If you did watch part one and you're joining us now, great, and let's continue along. Now, this part that we're going to be designing here is a push bike, it's a child's push bike. And in this section of the course, we're essentially doing the industrial design section where we're taking our concept, we're designing it, we're building for our parameters. We're kind of coming up with the systems that we're going to be using. And then basically at the end of this section, going into part three, which will be the manufacturing section of the course. So this is really like the industrial design section. A couple of things to consider here is that this was designed to be a very low volume part. So we're not designing this to produce thousands of units. We're designing this so that we can produce you know, one, two, three, four type of volume. So that was a consideration in the design for this part. Another thing that was a consideration to this, to this part is I wanted to show you several different ways of how to make something so that you could learn the more common approaches to composite manufacturing. So in this course, we're going to be building this push bike using a core. So there's a part inside of it that creates the shape that's wrapped in carbon fiber and we're using a prepreg carbon fiber. So a proxy system is pre-impregnated into the carbon. We are also going to be using this in a single-sided mold. So we're going to have a mold that matches up with half of the bicycle frame. And then we're going to be vacuuming that and placing inside of an oven. So the kind of takeaways you can take from this is on a single-sided mold like that, that's a very typical process for both infusion and RTM, especially light RTM. So you can use that section of the course to basically build a, you know, a hood to a car or a spoiler or a seat, or, you know, several parts that are like single-sided parts that have one's finishing side. Now, if you're building on that, you can use the section that we talk about core systems to build very complicated 3D shapes where you need very organic shapes. It's going to be a low volume setup and, you know, you need the structural support of a core. So that section could literally, you can take that, and just extract it and build your part that way. And if you're doing a more high volume part where you're doing production, and you want a two piece more traditional clamshell mold system, if you basically build upon the single side that we're doing now and talking about draft angles, you can basically mirror that and build a two-piece mold. We're doing a combination of all of this so that you can understand all three of those systems. And also the way we're using those systems is actually helping us reduce our cost and throughput for a part like this. So let's go ahead and dive right in.