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Mechanical Design Portfolio, Blaine Wilson
Mechanical design portfolio
Blaine Wilson
Opto-mechanical design, drafting, and production-facing engineering.
Selected work in aerospace, optics, biomedical devices, industrial tooling, and defense hardware.
Focus areas include SolidWorks-based mechanical design, opto-mechanical systems, GD&T, ISO 10110 drafting, tolerance analysis, and vendor-ready drawing packages.
Technical summary
Selected work
Representative projects and hardware.
Each image below matches the project it is attached to. If there was no clean image match in the portfolio set, it was left out.
| Project | Sector | Partner | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
LSST Lens and Metrology ToolingFeatured | Astronomy | Arizona Optical Systems | Large Optics · Metrology · SolidWorks |
DKIST Mirror MountsFeatured | Astronomy | National Solar Observatory | Mirror Mounts · FEA · Thermal |
eLISA Testbed TelescopeFeatured | Aerospace | NASA Goddard | Flexures · FEA · Space |
Restore-L / OSAM-1 Satellite Work | Aerospace | Malin Space Systems / NASA | Satellite · NASA · Optical Systems |
Surgical Visualization System | Biomedical | Ruda-Cardinal / Camplex | Biomedical · Optics · Camera System |
Glock-Mag AR Receiver | Defense | DDLES / QC10 | Defense · Product Design · Manufacturing |
Thirty Meter Telescope | Astronomy | Arizona Optical Systems | Telescope · Astronomy · Drafting |
Schott Lightweighted Mirror | Aerospace | SCHOTT / Arizona Optical Systems | Mirror · Optics · Lightweighting |
Metrology Arm Tooling | Industrial | Arizona Optical Systems | Metrology · Tooling · Inspection |
Astronomy
LSST Lens and Metrology Tooling
Arizona Optical Systems
Mechanical design and metrology tooling tied to the LSST large-lens program, supporting inspection, handling, and alignment work on one of the most ambitious optics programs on the planet.
Capabilities
What you actually get
Career path
Programs and shops behind the work
UCAR, opto-mechanical engineer on NASA instrument work
Baymar Solutions, mechanical engineer on sequencing hardware
Arizona Pump & Machine, reverse-engineering and manufacturing work
Mako Mfg. Services, founder and principal engineer
Ruda-Cardinal, opto-mechanical designer on aerospace and medical systems
Arizona Optical Systems, large telescope and precision optics programs
Contact
Need mechanical design or drafting support?
Available for project-based work involving assemblies, optical hardware, tooling, drawing packages, tolerance cleanup, and manufacturing handoff.