3D Printed Roller Coaster

Overview

I began leading a project to design and build a unique, 3D printed model rollercoaster with the Theme Park Engineering and Design Club at Purdue. After leading the project for 3 semester as a design lead and project manager, completing a successful design run and operating our model, I began to work on a person version of the project to act as an educational demonstration.

Using the lessons from the group effort, this personal project aims to utilize industry leading design for additive manufacturing principles to develop a 1:30 scale, functioning model which can serve as a demonstration of a typical theme park attraction control system. Utilizing SolidWorks, Fusion360, Force Vector Design, and Python in my work, I have successfully test printed a scale model train, track segments, and supports in Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) using Nylon-12.