From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine
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Creating the parts in real life - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine
Creating the parts in real life
- [Instructor] We have now finished creating our Stirling engine assembly in SOLIDWORKS virtually. And we're going to quickly talk about how you could physically make these parts and get a working model. I'm going to talk through the model and by now you should be quite familiar with this 3D model but how do we physically translate this into a working item? The first thing we've got is the base. This is obviously where everything else attaches and it keeps everything in the right place. In the model, this is made out of wood, just because it offsets against this brass quite nicely. But it could be another sheet of metal or any material you want really. It also doesn't have to be this size and shape. As long as the relative positions of the parts are the same. Now, looking down at the flywheel section at this end, these parts can be made to quite a low tolerance really. So you could machine the flywheel and the…
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