Mississippi River Boat rapid prototyping

This movie shows the rapid prototyping of a small part of a mississippi river boat. It is actually a test on modelling with 'hard'-wood with the purpose of making the whole boat as a demo-model. This video shows the process from 3D modeling on the computer using MicroStation V8i in this case and followed by the 3D physical modeling in hard-wood by de Roland MDX 540 subtractive rapid prototyping machine.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• XGI
• Roland MDX 540
• cnc routing
• cnc milling
• wood work
• scale model
• model ship building
• mississippi river boat
• western

[DrThunder88]

Very interesting video! Is the wood that connects the part to the rest of the block (I'd call it "sprue" if it were a mold) removed by hand?

[willy121173]

Hello, thanks for your response.

The connection-parts are indeed removed by hand. In the video, these connection part are somewhat large (height = 5 mm) For this type of wood (beech) it showed that connection parts of 2mm height give enough strength to keep the model in place during the milling process.

Smaller connections save a lot of time afterwards removing them ! :-)

Best regards.

[bradenwilson]

great video!  what type of wood is that?

[willy121173]

Thanks for your response.

The wood that is used is 'beech'.

[srpcreator]

Nice Video