Functional V6 engine model

Anyone commissioning mechanical design has to judge whether a supplier can model a real mechanism or only a pretty solid. The difference does not show in a rendering: it shows in whether the parts actually relate to each other and move as they should.

A complete V6 engine was modelled in SolidWorks as a functional assembly — block, heads, exhaust runners, timing gears and rotating components — with the parts mated so the mechanism moves as it would in reality, and the assembly checked in motion rather than only inspected.

A working demonstration of the CAD capability behind every other project here. When a part is reverse engineered, this is the standard of modelling underneath it.