Long after the vehicle named EV12 was developed in a computer, finally it came to the physical world.  Thank you for 3DEXPERIENCE Lab Boston to make it happen.

  A left image is a digital vehicle data created by conceptual modeling process. Subdivision surface modeling was used in the process and created 3D model from 2D sketch in short turnaround time.  This process is for evaluating vehicle aerodynamic performance in early design stage using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation.  

  The image was rendered in 3DEXCITE’s DELTAGEN. And its stream lines were calculated in SIMULIA’s PowerFLOW (CFD software).

  A right side image is a printed model. About 42[cm] in the vehicle length. Layer height is 0.3[mm]. The vehicle was split into 3 pieces in STL data and each piece printed separately due to the printer’s maximum size limit. It took about 44 hours for each printing and glued together manually.

  This printed model will be used for augmented reality (AR) software demonstrations.