During my second year of university, I joined the engineers without borders electrical team to work on a project involving designing and manufacturing a wind turbine from scratch. This required modelling not only the turbine but also the manufacturing tools that we would use to ensure that the entire team would understand the manufacturing process. For this project I mainly worked on the modelling using Fusion 360.
The Following Images show the Fusion 360 models that I made for the coil winder
The stator mould was designed in order to be 3D printed or to have an idea of what is required when manufacturing would have started. Nevertheless, many of the parts of the design where made following this document that provided a robust technical basis to our design and guidance thereby enabling correct sizing, geometry and a clear end product that the entire team worked on.
As such the design wasn't only made to replicate what the actual parts would look like in reality, but also to embed some of their functionality from the design itself, by i.e. making sure moving parts had the right degrees of freedom and that the proportionality of each component was numerically accurate so that the centre of mass of the parts would be the same as the one of the real parts.
