Nice! I thought it was a tunnel boring machine.

Doug Eichenberg wrote:

>  No, it's not a submarine!Something I'm doing for work... thought I'd
> share it.  The original is much larger in resolution, so some of the
> smaller details (like the threading) don't show here.  It's a cut-away
> model of an injection molding assembly.  It was created in AutoCAD
> from blueprints, then exported as a series of .3DS files.  I imported
> the .3DS files into PolyTrans and converted them into a POV
> smooth_triangle mesh.  The final POV file was a whopping 57.6 meg.How
> it works: The plastic (in pellet form) is fed into the large hole at
> the upper left and the cylinder is heated by the heater bands that are
> wrapped around it.  The temperature ranges from 300-900 degrees
> fahrenheit, depending on the resin used.  The screw spins inside the
> cylinder and forces the melted plastic out the nozzle orifice and into
> a mold.  That's the basic synopsis, anyway.  The vertical cylinders
> are thermocouples.
> --
> Doug Eichenberg
> http://www.nls.net/douge
> dou### [at] nlsnet

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