@keebordcowboy You don´t, the aluminum core stays in the bottle, it also helps the bottle to not "cave in" when the tank is empty and it gets hit. A paintballtank for ex with an aluminum core is stupid hard to break. I´ve tried.
@brianjherr This is an old post, and somewhat of a necro, but no. Vericut isn't used, nor would there even be compatibility between the programming approaches. McClean Anderson winders use simpler programming tools. Wind-path generation is more or less 2D. The tool profile is a 2D sketch, and the software assumes a surface of revolution. Hence, each pass is identical, but the mandrel offsets the path by a certain degree to wind a full-coverage ply of material.
Do you guys run your program through vericut's fiber laying sim? That may have caught the flaw with the screw. Was the bottle deflecting due to the layup force, or because the alignment was off?
@keebordcowboy You don´t, the aluminum core stays in the bottle, it also helps the bottle to not "cave in" when the tank is empty and it gets hit. A paintballtank for ex with an aluminum core is stupid hard to break. I´ve tried.
zekewargh 1 month ago
i just wonder, how you take the aluminum mold out after the winding is done?
keebordcowboy 2 months ago
thats gonna take a day to make 1 bottle, isn't it?
bigbattenberg 4 months ago
@brianjherr This is an old post, and somewhat of a necro, but no. Vericut isn't used, nor would there even be compatibility between the programming approaches. McClean Anderson winders use simpler programming tools. Wind-path generation is more or less 2D. The tool profile is a 2D sketch, and the software assumes a surface of revolution. Hence, each pass is identical, but the mandrel offsets the path by a certain degree to wind a full-coverage ply of material.
MOLRobocop 1 year ago
Ha, good old Brad.
MOLRobocop 1 year ago
Do you guys run your program through vericut's fiber laying sim? That may have caught the flaw with the screw. Was the bottle deflecting due to the layup force, or because the alignment was off?
brianjherr 2 years ago