The Earth - MEC

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Hi all, I designed this globe for the MEC Chalenge i thought i was a good way to memorize earth geography, major cities location and learn lattitude/longitude location learning. How I Designed This Equator, Artic and antartic lines and Capricorn and tropic lines report Google earth drawing picture Top, rear, right, and left drawing pictures Continent's contour Cities Location or major lands points with coordonates The Globe project Introduction This project intends to improve 3D vision, geography, 3D drawing, conception interest and some engineering skills by studying globe's part assembly. Makers of this project could easily modify scale and located cities, they could add major moutains and also add typographie on the globe. The Globe could be pendant (A wire could lock the four part together ?!) or put on a desk with a soft flat bottom (to draw part.) 0"0 is located near western African coast and is represented by a little extrusion Greenwich meridian is represented by a ring Each 10° lattitude are represented by half rings Equator, Artic and antartic lines and Capricorn and tropic lines materialized by rings Cities can be materialized on the globe by moving (copy/move) this body to the desired location : For example: London is 51° 30′ 26″ North - 0° 07′ 39″ West So I copy/rotate the "Zero Point body" to 51,30° UP to the origin. Then, (with a 2nd function) i rotate (no copy) the body to 0,07° LEFT to the origin.. This technics easily allow makers to improve their continent's drawing contour. Google Earth's distortion could also been skipped by sketch picture adjstement after cities placements. I'm Still working on it Thanks for interest. JJ Educational Work To Do -Study Simples Solidworks Function ~4h -Adjsut Globe size wonid ~1h -Adjust printing settings / wall thickness ~2h -Create mounting if needed ~2h -Study Parts assembly ~4h -Materialize desired locations ~3h -Print 4 parts +12h -Design and create an axis support. +20h Sketch pictures