Engineering Students Win Creo Challenge with Modified Torpedo Boat

By LINDSEY CHRISTENSEN | Published: DEC 27, 2011

At the University of Limerick, every year the fourth year Advanced CAD course challenges its students to create a unique model based on a theme. This year’s theme? Land and Sea Based Military Vehicles.

Fourteen groups of four or five students teamed up to compete in the 2011 contest, each using Creo as their design tool. Note that these aren’t first-time CAD users. Engineering students begin using PTC design tools in their second year at the university. Some use the software during extended internships as well. By the time they reach the Advanced CAD course and its modeling challenge, the students are months away from entering the profession as trained engineers.

This year’s 2011 winner was a Vosper MTB, a boat designed after those used by the Royal Navy.  But, because these are engineering students, the winning design featured improvements over the original WWII-era boat.

“Our modifications included a safety rail,” says co-designer Eoghan O’Shea. “We also added a stepped hull, which increases the top speed of the boat, and armaments such as the BOFORS 40mm cannon.”

O’Shea says that the group appreciated several strengths in the Creo’s parametric design software for this project: Its ability to handle large assemblies and complex geometry, versioning control, and rendering.

He estimates the team worked 350 hours creating the model and an additional 13-15 hours on rendering. Here it is—with music and animations. Enjoy!

Credits

The University of Limerick team included

Cian Gallagher -4^th Year Mechanical Engineering

Shane Greaney -4^th Year Mechanical Engineering

James O’Connor -4^th Year Aeronautical Engineering

Eoghan O’Shea    -4^th Year Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Phillip Griffin was class lecturer

O’Shea further credits his entire class for the success of his team’s model. “A number of excellent projects were created, and in my opinion that was driven not only by everybody’s willingness to help each other out but by the great atmosphere of friendly rivalry.”

Let’s Be Unconventional – With Creo Sketch!

Publicado por Bettina Giemsa en 13-sep-2011 13:22:22

Just recently, we have learned what beautiful and artistic images we can create with CAD: we had called our users to design butterflies in Creo and then were joined by our friends at GrabCAD extending the call to action to their users. As a result, both our communities had received a variety of butterfly designs created with Creo and many other design tools. Take a look at the results from PlanetPTC Community http://communities.ptc.com/photoAlbums/1059 and GrabCAD, if you haven’t done so yet.

As you may already be aware, as this has been discussed heavily in the press, PTC released Creo Sketch this summer. Creo Sketch is a stand-alone 2D design application that allows users to easily transform hand-drawn sketches into finished artwork. It allows you to explore ideas, smooth out rough edges, and evolve concepts. Creo Sketch is like an electronic version of a napkin or notebook--without the coffee stains.

The fact that this is a fully functional piece of software – all for free – makes it lovely. But what impresses me even more is all the great work I started seeing once the app had become available for download!

Here on PlanetPTC Community or on the Creo page on Facebook , people have started uploading their sketches. And, sketches in the original meaning is the wrong word here, as some of them are real pieces of art and have actually nothing to do with technical products at all…

This sparked an idea – It’s time for a new contest here on PlanetPTC Community!!

Just follow these 3 steps:

1. Download your free copy of Creo Sketch.
2. Create a sketch. Explore the full functionality of the product and show your artistic skills! Be unconventional – your sketch doesn’t need to show a technical item.
3. Submit your sketch.
   Either upload to this album on PlanetPTC Community http://communities.ptc.com/photoAlbums/1083 directly or submit to HelloCAD {at} ptc {dot} com and add your caption in the email so we can upload to the photoalbum on your behalf.

The prize
This time we have a special prize for you: the artistry you have proven by submitting to the contest deserves being put on canvas. Therefore, we will be giving you a gift voucher for "Paint a Pic" – a new service that turns your image into a paint by numbers kit.

The rules
Everyone can participate – no matter of what design software you use in your day-to-day jobs. Creo Sketch is for everyone and we will upload any images to the photo album as long as they don’t depict anything offensive as determined by our Community Rules of Use.

• You can submit your sketches until Monday, October 3, 12:00 noon Eastern Time US.
• After this period, the Community members can vote for their favorite images until October 17, 12:00 noon Eastern Time US. The 4 images that will receive the most "Likes" by members of PlanetPTC Community will win. Submissions by PTC staff will be accepted to the gallery, but not be eligible for the prize draw.
• The winners will be notified by email and announced publicly on PlanetPTC Community

Happy sketching!

Bettina

Tip: There are a couple of free tutorials for Creo Sketch on PTC University's LearningExchange!
>> Check them out here

Thanks to my colleague Jayabharathwaj Venkataraman for providing the images above and the great tutorials on LearningExchange.