Unity College students are now well and truly on their way to successfully being the first school to CNC cut and fabricate their very own 4.8-metre boat. Since the last update, their engineering skills students have almost completed the forming of the main hull.
Unity College has been working alongside the CNC Marine’s naval architects in the design of this boat. Intentionally, multiple features of the boat were not included in the original naval architect’s design. This was so the three engineering technical students could lead the way in custom designing these compartments and components.
All of the parts started as design concept sketches and then were transformed and tested as 3D CAD models. From here they were either laser cut from MDF or 3D printed so students could directly test, evaluate and refine the parts. Students then programmed their very own CNC router to cut the parts from Alspec marine-grade aluminium sheet. These parts were then given to the engineering skills fabrication team for fitting to the vessel.
Alspec is proud to have donated the aluminium for this project.
