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tahanson43206

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Registered: 2018-04-27

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Fusion 360 Large Ship Habitat Ring Collaboration

This topic is intended to provide a repository for work done with the student/hobbyist version of the professional package: Fusion 360 by AutoCad.

There are three versions of "Large Ship" active in August of 2022.

The first is the original hammerhead shaped design created by RobertDyck, and developed over two years and counting.

The second is a dual-counter-rotating-habitat design under development by kbd512.

The third is a combination of the two, which I will attempt to develop.

All three have in common, a habitat ring where passengers and crew will spend most of their time.

RobertDyck has created models of the original hammerhead design in Blender, and posted images in the original Large Ship topic

This topic is designed to work with the NewMars Dropbox account.

My hope is that all three designers will collaborate in creating models of the Habitat Ring, suitable for 3D Printing at 1:1000 scale.

The original Large Ship Habitat Ring was specified as having a radius of (about) 37 meters, for a diameter of (about) 75 meters.

The width is specified as exactly 19 meters.

Other details of the original design may be found in the Large Ship topic.

My intention is to add them here as they are brought to my attention.

A 1:1000 scale model would be 75 millimeters in diameter, which is well within the capability of an ordinary home 3D Printer.

A typical low end 3D Printer has a print stage 200 millimeters on a side.

Fusion 360 has features that are attractive for design of engineering models.

Blender was created (originally) to provide a way to make movie animations.  It is capable of supporting design of engineering components.

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tahanson43206

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Registered: 2018-04-27

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Re: Fusion 360 Large Ship Habitat Ring Collaboration

As planned, I have set up a shared folder in DropBox for models of the Large Ship Habitat ring.

I am making the assumption the same habitat ring will be acceptable to all three designers:

RobertDyck - Large Ship Unitary Rotation - originator of habitat specifications

kbd512 - Large Ship Counter Rotating habitats with a common axis of rotation

tahanson43206 - Large ship Counter Rotating habitats with parallel axles as designed by Dr. Cortel (( Adolf Cortel 2009)  Double gyroscope. ))

All three of the folks listed should have update/edit privileges to the new folders.

My hope is that designs will be shared between the participants, improved as they are inspired, and stored with new names next to the originals.

(th)