Pointfuse Laser Scanning Software Powers Design of Formula One E-Racer Plane

Pointfuse正在帮助工程师设计和开发一架电动飞机，该飞机将于今年晚些时候参加空中竞赛E比赛。全球第一场电动航空比赛将有八支国际球队，包括加拿大的球队Outlaw，同时在5公里的赛道左右竞争电动飞机，距离地面仅10米，速度高达450公里/小时。使用激光扫描数据并使用PointFuse处理的肥大计划，Team Outlaw计划在参加比赛之前，在比赛中竞争竞赛之前，将用电池供电的电动单元替换传统电动机。

In order to adapt its existing formula one racing plane, Team Outlaw required detailed structural plans for the 1993 Cassutt. Using a borrowed Faro S70 laser scanner the team captured millions of individual measurements creating a working point cloud file in the region of 3 gigabytes. Once the data had been cleaned, usingAutodesk Recap, and the plane detail isolated, engineers then began the task of trying to import the data into the computer-aided engineering software packageSolidWorks.

3D model of the plane

“In order to assess different design options we needed a 3D model of the plane which we could use to explore different locations for equipment and different configurations,” commented Thomas Lockwood, a professional mechanical design engineer and one of the twenty-strong team working on the project.

“过去与激光扫描一起工作后，我相信这是捕获原始测量的相对简单且具有成本效益的任务。但是，我们没有考虑的是以可用格式将数据纳入固体工作的过程。”他继续说道。“我以前曾使用过点云处理软件，但价格非常昂贵，所以当我遇到时Pointfuse我很高兴尝试一下。”

Using Pointfuse, the Team Outlaw designers converted the cleaned data into a series of meshed surfaces. From this Pointfuse produced mesh model, STEP (Standard for Exchange of Product Data) files were exported for use in SolidWorks giving the design team accurate surfaces and breaklines from which the CAD model could be created.

多年设计，建造和改装的赛车飞机已有多年Air Race E对于Team Outlaw来说，这是往常的业务，他得到了Prepizion服务，节能房屋，ARKK工程和Viscan检查服务的支持。在Pointfuse的持续支持下，该团队希望能够为其他电子式团队提供激光扫描和建模服务。