General Electric "GEnx" high-bypass turbofan
In doing research for my Boeing 787-8 "Dreamliner" project, I decided to model the engines. At the time I'm posting this, both Rolls-Royce and General Electric have made powerplants for the 787. I decided on the GE engine, simply because I was able to get better documentation for it.
This model is as accurate as I could make it, given the resources, but I can't claim complete accuracy on this engine, for two reasons. Although GE was very generous in providing me with some orthographic drawings, but naturally, they keep some things proprietary. Secondly, this model was created with single-wall parts, which slightly affects the technical accuracy, but reduces the polygon count by more than half… a great savings for those of you who want to use it on another model, or simply make some nice renderings.
The existing model:
Model Features:
- Scale dimensions for major parts. (not all were available, naturally)
- Model can be shown as illustrated, or "mirrored", to produce the other engine half. The reason for this is that it's a huge file. (in dxf form, over 600 mb)