16. Wildcard week

Assignment: 

Design and produce something with a digital fabrication process (incorporating computer-aided design and manufacturing) not covered in another assignment, documenting the requirements that your assignment meets, and including everything necessary to reproduce it.

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For this week we want to test our cnc router that for a year and a half was disabled due to lack of parts and technical problems. We wanted to build a small platform for our webcam in the lab. For the deck design, we will use Fusion 360 and its CAM options. We will configure for the first time the drills that we have available in the lab and we will test various code formats that can work without problem in the software that we have for the router.

Steps

1.Desing the platform

2.Organize cutting parts and cutting setup

3.Testing with different g-codes

4.Cutting the pieces

5. Assembly and final finishes

Firts sketch

1. Desing the platform on Fusion 360

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First sketch to define the dimensions of the platform. 

Basic forms of support parts

We apply symmetry to the base and aply some fillets to the corners.

We duplicate the initial support piece and rotate it 90 degrees to complete the supports.

We designed a simple socket to join the 2 pieces of the base.

Next, we designed a disk for the top of the deck.

We make some holes for the camera cables.

Then, using the Fusion 360 manufacturing tools, we did the organization of the parts for the preparation of the cut file without altering the design.

Then we did a quick simulation to verify the path of the cut and the final result.

First we are going to configure the material that we are going to use which is 15mm pine wood.

Then we configure the drill that we are going to use, which is an 8mm diameter flat end mill.

Then we configure the information to make the 2d contour

We set the heights and we will make the cut in multiple passes