Second class, third partial.

In this second class, we continued sanding our model.
We also went to Acriplast to buy the PET we will be using to thermoform the models.

For last, we went to the High Technology laboratory with Raúl, who explained to us how does the Z-printer works. I was very interesting because you now can realize how does your mad or good modelling can impact directly on the final result.

We also check out how to make more efective the impresion times by niveling, rotating, scaling and moving your model, this is because in real life you may have a case in which you have to deliver your project on an specific due date and by doing this little changes you can achive it more quickly.

The cost of the material it was also an interesting topic, because you have to save as much raw material as you can, you can do this by giving a thin thickness on surfaces, making a hollow volume, and saving an collecting as much powder as you can since it is reusable.

Finally we saw the resin application in the models, which has to be done on specific proportions between the resin and the hardener, and on correct times between printing and resin aplications, since the model has to adjust to externar presure and humidity.

I think this is a very interesting process that will help us to made effective rapid protoypes, but that we have to be very careful with the process so everything goes right. In the next weeks we will select a final car, which we will model correctly and use the Z-printer, I will show you then our final results.

Until then.
JP