Week10. Molding and casting

This week do the following

  • In group assignment, examine the specifications and usage of mold material and cast material.

  • In the individual assignment, create a mold from the cast-out model.
    Cast to confirm completion.

Group Assignment

The content of our group assignment is here
Week10 Group Assignment

Impressions

There are many types of molding materials.
Although only one kind of material was used this time, it will be necessary to use it properly depending on the application.

Molding and casting

1 Designing

  1. Designed the button using Fusion360.

    • Button

  2. Create a spout and an air passage.

    • Mold

  3. Hold the two boxes and cut the button part.

    • Mold2

  4. Press the created two boxes against the wax mold to cut

    • Cast

  5. Press the created two boxes against the wax mold to cut

    • CastDesign

2 Milling wax

Materials and tools used.

  • Milling wax

    • Wax

  • Tools

    • Rough Cut
    • RoughCutTool
      • 1/8 SE 4FL
    • Finish Cut
    • FinishCutTool
      • 1/16 SE 2FL

  • Software

    • MODELA Player 4 (Included in the MDX-15)

Milling with MDX-15

Rough Cut

  1. Rough cutting is I took a method of shaving 1 mm each layer with Up Cut.
    • RoughCutType
  2. Cutting area is Make it smaller than wax, and include all the processing area.
    There is no need to scrape the outside of the wax.
    • RoughCutArea
  3. Cutting
    • RoughCutPreview
    • RoughCut

Finish Cut
4. The finish cut I took a method to scrape in one direction.
* FinishCutType

When making the finish cut, I had to limit the surface to be processed from the following things.

  • Insufficient tool length
    • ToolLength

If do a finish cut at a depth of 6 mm or more, the shank will hit the wall.
* Batting

  1. Cutting area is
    Include all the parts that need to be removed to the extent that the tool does not hit the wall

    • FinishCutArea1
    • FinishCutArea2
    • FinishCutArea

  2. Cutting
    FinishCut

Finish cut area.

3 Mold and Cast

Materials used.

  • Mold and casting materials

    • Materials

  • Mix A and B for mold with 1:1 (Weight).

  • Pour into wax mold.

    • mold

  • Wait for 30 minutes (cure time)

  • Take out

    • Takeout

  • Combine

    • Combine

  • Mix solution A and solution B for casting at 100: 90 (weight)

    • cast

  • Pour into mold

    • Casting

  • Take out

    • Hero

Coloring

When coloring urethane resin, use a urethane colorant.

This mixes only 0.01%-3% of the total weight.

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