This is what I am constructing.
These are concept images that I am using to communicate my parameters with the industrial design engineers. I am an Enterprise Software sales guy, I have ideas not design skills. I am also lucky enough to have a friend of mine who is a Auto clay modeller and was working for AUDI and he is DYING to get clay onto the aluminium and do his thing. (For free can you believe it)
The 3D printing guys usually get some hand drawn stuff and lots of conversation. They were surprised that a private individual would put that much effort into concept drawings.
The grayed areas are the ones that will be produced with the 3D prototyping plastics. The section ontop of the Panel is also 3D printed. The greyed areas will be covered with thin foam and then leather. There is a centre consol that is also in concept stage which I have in drawings that is being printed as well. It is being done in sections and then glued and cliped together. The clips are being made as part of the printed parts
This will be very lite. This is NOT the final design, the designers haven't done their CAD Magic yet. The images above don't have all of their design nfluences and they don't show all the detail in the 3D curves. It looks 300% better in the mock ups they did.
I was about to ask them to start and then Marc Ausman changed his VP200 display size.
Lucky because if not it would have been $80 per hour on deisgn that has to be re-done.
This is the side elevation with the panel with a little more detail.
The throttle quadrant will have the Starflight throttle quadrant that is used by the Lancair people.
3D printed elements for the Panel
Linear Mode
