{"id":11033,"date":"2025-11-28T00:17:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=11033"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:19:29","slug":"caterham-sv-prop-shaft-scan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/caterham-sv-prop-shaft-scan\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterham SV Prop-Shaft Scan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next in the list of things I&#8217;ve scanned is the prop-shaft from a Caterham Seven SV.&nbsp;It&#8217;s taken me a couple of years to get around to extracting this from the EV project car, but I need a model now to verify the CAD for the gearbox that&#8217;s being designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><script type=\"module\" src=\"https:\/\/unpkg.com\/@google\/model-viewer\/dist\/model-viewer.min.js\"><\/script> <script nomodule=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/unpkg.com\/@google\/model-viewer\/dist\/model-viewer-legacy.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<model-viewer src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SVPropScan800k.glb\" ios-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SVPropScan800k.usdz\" alt=\"Caterham Seven Prop-shaft\" camera-controls=\"\" auto-rotate=\"\" ar=\"\" exposure=\"0.5\" rotation-per-second=\"20deg\" auto-rotate-delay=\"0\" camera-orbit=\"0deg 80deg auto\" field-of-view=\"25deg\" style=\"width:100%; height:400px;\" <=\"\" model-viewer=\"\"><\/model-viewer>\n\n\n\n<p>And from that scan I created a parametric model in Fusion360. The model is fully articulated and can be animated into different positions to simulate it&#8217;s real installation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" autoplay controls loop muted src=\"http:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SVPropScan800kAnimation.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the 800k polygon scan files in the following links&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SVPropScan800k.3mf\">SV Prop Shaft 800k.3mf<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SVPropScan800k.usdz\">SV Prop Shaft 800k.usdz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next in the list of things I&#8217;ve scanned is the prop-shaft from a Caterham Seven SV.&nbsp;It&#8217;s taken me a couple of years to get around to extracting this from the EV project car, but I need a model now to verify the CAD for the gearbox that&#8217;s being designed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"3D Scan of a Caterham SV Prop-shaft. 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