3D Printing The Large Hadron Collider Experiment... Sort of

CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, has been behind some major discoveries thanks to the Large Hadron Collider--including the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson particle. One of the two particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), has now been 3D printed at a 1:120 scale, by James Wetzel, PhD, of the University of Iowa. Modeled using SolidWorks, technical data reports, and the SketchUpCMS Project, Wetzel's model was so impressive that an outreach coordinator from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory sought 70 of them--and due to a series of circumstances, Wetzel is printing all 70 models himself, on 6 Afinia H480 3D printers. Read the full article for details on the model's creation and the large order, as well as where to find the files or order your own CMS model later on: http://3dprint.com/82987/3d-print-la...dron-collider/


Below is a look at Wetzel's 3D printed models:
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