Creo Parametric Community Challenge August 2023 - Archimedes Screw
The Archimedes screw is a water pump that allows water to be raised from a lower to higher elevation. It consists of a central shaft with a helical surface, which itself sits within a cylindrical channel. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is as follows:
- Design an assembly for the Archimedes screw capable of lifting water a vertical height of 1.5 meters. The assembly should contain at least one mechanism connection. Your Archimedes screw does not have to resemble those in any of the images here.
- It can be either hand-operated or motor-driven. (The motor can be represented by a simple box part model.)
- Create a rendered image of your model.
- (Optional) Create a Kinematic Analysis using the Mechanism Design Extension (MDX) and output a movie of the playback. Note that every license of Creo Parametric comes with MDX.
- (Optional) Create a rendered animation of the motion using the Design Animation Option (DAO). Every license of Creo Parametric comes with DAO.
In your submission, please indicate the version of Creo Parametric that you used to create your model.
This challenge was inspired by an Archimedes screw on display at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle:
Please submit a zip file of your submission as a reply to this post. If you choose to submit an assembly file only (no rendered image, rendered animation, or kinematic analysis movie), don’t forget to embed the components.
The submission period will end on Friday, September 8th.
Find the PTC Creo Community Challenge Guidelines here!