| Concept sketches complete, working towards converging to single final sketch | Documented at the Conceptual Design Page |
| Final aesthetic locked down | - Blended hood to windshield angle
- Large catamaran
- Cambered airfoil design for underbody
- Body comes down to cover rear wheels
- Documented at the Conceptual Design page
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| Rough model in CAD | - Rough geometry modeled in CAD
- Minimum array space, length, width, and height considered
- Wheelbase and track roughly defined
- Need to add space for front wheel sweep and suspension
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| Revision 1 | - Added space for front wheel sweep and suspension
- Modelled the car "pontoons" to be similar to Sunswift Eve
- Beginning of parametric model
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| Revision 2 | - First iteration of TopFoil, Pontoons design with simplified Pontoon design
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| Revision 3 + Surface Model Rev 1 | - Oversized volume model with very large amounts of space for everything to go
- New surface model to show the goal of aesthetics for MS14
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| Revision 4 | - Cut down to the bare minimum space required
- Still a volume model, unusable surfaces for simulating
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| Revision 5 | - First revision of slightly clean surfaces and decent blend between Topfoil and Pontoons
- Trailing edge is now unified and continues from pontoons to Topfoil
- Two models A,B (variation of windshield inflection point)
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| Revision 6 | - Narrowed down to a simpler geometry for the Topfoil and more features to show aesthetic lines
- Best performing model by end of Fall 2018
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| Revision 7 | - First clean model to easily change Topfoil and pontoon geometries
- The model doesn't have enough controls to change everything, but has enough to change major shapes and iterate quickly
- Created with the intersect feature, which is very finicky to use
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| Aesthetic Model Revision 1 | - First revision of aesthetic model with all main features included
- Simple enough to change parametrically
- Has all rough aero shapes necessary
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| Revision 8 | - Most optimal topfoil shape determined through iterations in February and put as Rev. 8
- Pontoons still need to be optimized
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| Revision 8 + | - Model with better pontoons
- Included inflection point at the back of the pontoons
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| Aesthetic Model Revision 2(E) | - Aesthetic model that performs better than all aero models
- Still needs to be improved to fit the suspension
- Needs more space for people
- Current drag force: 40N (25N Pressure, 15N Viscous)
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