New product - how we got there
Following on from last weeks blog on design from imagery , you may not be surprised to see that we have a new product to share with you, our first in fact. After finding the need to replace a broken swing arm infill on a Yamaha TZ250 C chassis; a replacement was designed in CAD software. This has since been edited and fettled to produce an economical replacement for the 40 year old factory part. The key was to produce something that was faithful to the original part whilst still being economical to produce using 3D printing. We will now take you through the process of designing this product before getting down to the specifications we finished upon. Process The original part was produced in solid ABS using injection moulding. This is ideal for producing large numbers of a product but the production run here is unlikely to breach a few hundred so 3D printing is most suitable. This comes with its own challenges and advantages. The initial costs and subsequent low vo...