Molding and Casting

This week’s individual assignment is to design a mold around the stock and tooling that you’ll be using, mill it (rough cut + three-axis finish cut), and use it to cast parts.

Individual Assignment

Here’s what I’ve done for this assignment

I thought about what type of part would be useful for my final project. I landed on silicone feet for the frame of the machine with a M5 bolt molded in to hte conical foot.

Based on the testing we did for the group project and the materials that we have in our lab, I settle on making six feet with the Smooth On Silicone material.

I chose this material because of its potential vibration dampening effects for the machine.

It’s a two part mold with a should in the bottom piece to hold the M5 bolt above the bottom plane of the foot to isolate it from the table the machine will sit on.

Here is my design for the molds.

Material for the feet OOMOO 30

Here is a link to the tutorial I used to create the toolpaths in Fusion 360.

I realized that I needed to add the Bantam Tool Library to my computer and used the instructions at this link

Group Assignment

Here is a link to our group assignment.