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A gondola ride appears effortless from the passenger cabin. Far below the panoramic windows, however, a cable-car system is a coordinated piece of transport engineering. Electric motors regulate the speed of a continuously moving steel rope; large grooved sheaves redirect the rope without sharp bending; powerful brakes manage stopping; and tensioning equipment keeps the whole arrangement within a defined operating envelope. The passenger sees a graceful journey, but the terminal sees load, friction, alignment, heat, fatigue and control signals.
ALPINE GT-2 is an original, interactive teaching model of an articulated alpine cable-car drive terminal. It contains 142 individually inspectable parts, organised into eight connected subsystems. Unlike a static exploded illustration, the simulator allows you to take named components out, reposition and rotate them, check installation dependencies, snap them into alignment, and operate the machine's major motions. A complete assembly is visible at the start. Every separation is computed from a stored, exact home transform, so returning the explosion slider to zero restores the original alignment rather than accumulating animation drift.
This is an illustrative educational model, not a digital twin of a certified manufacturer design. Its part masses, scale, reference speed and gear ratios support interactive learning; they must not be used to design, inspect, operate or approve a real aerial ropeway. Actual installations are subject to specialist engineering, safety analysis, verification, maintenance programmes and jurisdiction-specific standards.
This is an educational, illustrative model of a fictional product: part names, masses, materials and operating figures are simplified and are not a manufacturer's drawing, a design basis or a safety/acceptance document.