The US Wind Power Center and WhiteClouds have worked together to create scale models of famous windmills in history using computer-aided design and 3D printing technologies. These windmills will be part of the model train exhibition and will be displayed at the AWPC Museum. "We plan to build a plan for the model train from Lubbock (a city in the northwestern part of the TEXAS state, USA) from 1910 AD to the early 1950s. Coy Harris, the executive director of the Wind Power Center, said that "there were many windmills in this area at the time." The time the train came to Lubbock.
Harris has been working with Kelly Root, who was a designer at WhiteClouds, and used Projet3500HD MAX in WhiteClouds' laboratory for 3D printing to create a scale model of the windmill. "The scale model of the windmill can be obtained through the use of 3D design and 3D printing (AWPC), which is not available elsewhere. This windmill has been used for more than 30 years. Its scale model cannot be easily obtained elsewhere. Obtained, it must be built from scratch"
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This model uses multiple techniques to reconstruct. One of the windmills was reconstructed using a scale model already owned by AWPC. Root measures and uses reverse engineering techniques to design a copy of the model. The other is to use the original windmill and pictures to reconstruct it with the previous design drawings. Root commented that the biggest challenge of this solution is to maintain the real model of the original scale windmill while still maintaining the 3D printing design.
All windmill models are 3D printed using multi-nozzle technology (MJP). The process uses UV-curable resin to create precise and durable plastic parts. Each layer is only 16 microns, about one-sixth the thickness of human hair. This brings incredible detail to the scale model of the windmill. The final print is translucent and off-white.
img src="//memberpic.114my.cn/sz0001215/uploadfile/image/20180125/20180125184739_1316842702.png" alt="" /> Harris and his team will complete the assembly of the finished windmill model. Harris said, "All windmill models will be printed and painted." We will build many wooden towers. Most hand-built windmills are too complicated, which is why they are printed.
 
AWPC is the world's largest windmill museum, with more than 100 windmill collections in the indoor corridor and 60 windmills erected in the Linebery Windmill Park.