Ladder for kids

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Ark is a ladder specially designed for kids between 3 and 12, for every time they need to get toys, but they can't. The challenge for this product was to design a one piece ladder and do it in one process for economy and low weight. The goal was reached with a product that can be manufactured by a rotationally molded of dust polyethylene and only have a mass of 1,5kg.

Other challenge was to optimize the product for a load of 1500N, because this product can be subject by a adult and for the safety factor. Thanks to the ISDX extension of Pro/E it was easy do this and later could pass in seconds the iterations to Pro/Mechanica continuously until arriving at a satisfactory result.

More details and a data sheet can be watched on the images and the 3D jpg.

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  • ABOUT THE ENTRANT

  • Name:
    Camilo Parra Palacio
  • Type of entry:
    individual
  • Profession:
    Student
  • Number of times previously entering contest:
    1
  • Camilo's favorite design and analysis tools:
    Pro/ENGINEER
    Solid Edge
    Autodesk 3ds Max
    Catia
    COMSOL
  • For managing CAD data Camilo's company uses:
    PTC Pro/INTRALINK
  • Camilo's hobbies and activities:
    Ride a bycicle, listening music, enjoy the life
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  • Camilo is inspired by:
    The nature, designs in other context, new technology and the problems of the people.
  • Software used for this entry:
    Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 with Mechanica Structure
  • Patent status:
    none