This is so great to see that our bicycle inspired others. The bicycle we designed in Solidworks is a 1:1 scale of a real bicycle. It is designed from the ground up but it isn’t very 3D-print friendly. For example I’ve attached the front wheel, as you can see it has a lot of details. Probably not the ideal printing object (we only designed another wheel purely for the prototype, the rest of the prototype is scaled down to 30% of the original).
We can share our Solidworks design with all the parts. Before we do that we want to apply the things we learned from printing the awesome prototype @k5o52 on the Solidworks design. And of course I would like to hear if there is need for our Solidworks design.
I will keep an eye out for this thread. It would be so cool if this really works out. Already seeing it in front of me, with our prototype for scale measurements haha. Awesome. Voorwiel_spaken.STL (6.47 MB)
@AtomJaay I would be interested in discussing ideas with you on this, my colleagues and I are avid cyclists and are working on some bike related 3D printed accessories. I guess re: bike project we just need to work out who prints what now.
I guess time difference would make it hard but I would also like to do a decentralised meetup at some point where we are hanging out with another community using the power of the internet ( might be a little far fetched )
Anyway if you are interested in some sort of collaboration let me know.
- Seat for the child (don’t know if this is necessary. It was part of the assignment we got from school)
Lose-less parts:
- Chain
- All the ‘parts’ to get the bicycle moving
The 2nd part of the frame and the carrier can be combined as the ‘back-frame’ of the bicycle.
I’ve contacted the Solidworks designer, Twan Smeets. I’ll ask him if it is possible for him to finish the Solidworks design this week so it can be uploaded and other people can refine / adjust and fine tune it.
Is this the information you’re expecting? Or do you need more detailed information?
@Quintenva you are making some people very very happy :). We can go into detail once we understand who we have and what capability of machine they have I guess.
P.S I have to ask the question as I do have a bit of an engineering background, do you actually think it could hold anyone without breaking at least for the first couple of minutes?
We could take a page from the 3D printed guitar makers and add a channel inside the parts that a carbon fiber rod can be inserted and secured with resin. It makes the guitar necks made of many segments far stronger.
Sounds great Charlotte. If I can be of any help, let me know through a PM. Apart from that, there are some other bicycle related projects coming soon from my own initiative as well! I’m curious what you guys have been up to at Cinter in terms of accesories.
