3D printing technology from RapidPro
Scale replicate bus
RP is a team of engineers with over 25 yrs experience in a wide variety of design and development roles. The key to its success is in being able to understand customers end requirements and thus tune the ideal solution.
Mark O'Brien from Benchmark Models was asked to branch out from Architectural models and look at doing a scale replicate bus (1600 400 300) for an up coming transportation show.
Subsequent discussions between RapidPro and Mark helped him formulate a plan as to how the bus was to be constructed utilising RapidPro’s experience with 3D printing.
Mark’s key points were cost and timing.
RapidPro’s plaster/epoxy 3D printing technique was utilised to make a number of different parts for both end use and patterns for other processes.
The front and rear sections were sectioned and glued 3D printed parts along with the lights (which were later vacuum metallised)
A set of wheel hubs and tyre patterns were 3D printed and later used for silicon tooling and
For the windscreen a high temperature epoxy was utilised to infiltrate a 3D printed mould to thermoform an acrylic windscreen. The acrylic sheet was heated and wrapped over the mould
14-Nov-2007