CAD and Rendering of a V6 twin-turbo internal combustion engine.

CAD, computer aided design: indicates the information technology sector aimed at the use of software technologies and in particular computer graphics to support the activity of designing both virtual and real artifacts. Computer-aided design systems have, as their target, the creation of models, especially 3D, of the product.

In this case you can see the 3D modeling process of a V6 twin-turbo internal combustion engine using the software SOLIDWORKS2019 . It took me a total of 5-6 hours to design each single component of the engine, for a total of 30 parts, and then, using the virtual assembly environment, combine them into a single system composed by 190 components, the engine.

As you can see, the funcitons that I have used, for the majority of the work, are extrusions, loft and many different types of cut.

The most fun process of the work was the assembly because here it's where all that you have created take a specific position and function in the global system of the engine.

The rocker arms, camshaft, rocker springs and valves were the harder part of the assembly due to all the connection that I had to establish in order to make them a functional part of the engine.

Below you will also find some renderings performed with KeyShot9: generation of an image starting from a mathematical description of a three-dimensional scene, interpreted by algorithms that define the color of each point of the digital image, capable of producing a quality representation of an object and its material.

The overall work took me a total of 9-10h, it was hard and funny at the same time. From this work I have learned some new functions that I will be able to use and apply in other areas of my engineering career.