Molding and Casting¶
Group Assignment
- Review the safety data sheets for each of your molding and casting materials
- Make and compare test casts with each of them
- Compare printing vs milling molds
Individual Assignment
- Design a mold around the process you’ll be using, produce it with a smooth surface finish that does not show the production process, and use it to cast parts.
Learning Outcomes
- Design appropriate objects within the limitations of your process
- Demonstrate workflows used in mold design, construction and casting
Have you answered these questions?
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Linked to the group assignment page and reflected on your individual page what you have learned
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Reviewed the safety data sheets for each of your molding and casting materials, then made and compared test casts with each of them
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Documented how you designed and created your 3D mold, including machine settings
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Ensured your mold has smooth surface finish, that does not show the production process (by postprocessing if necessary)
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Shown how you safely made your mold and cast the parts
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Described problems and how you fixed them
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Included your design files and ‘hero shot’ of the mold and the final object
Time Management¶
You can access my timetable here.
Group Assignment¶
You can access the link to my group assignment here.
Individual Assignment¶
Go through my week 13 vocabulary and software page to get familiar with the new terms this week.
Desiging¶
For this week’s assignment, I plan on making a minecraft flower and a dead fish.
First let’s design the minecraft flower!
This is the inspiration from Pinterest.
To start designing, open Fusion360 and create a sketch like so.
Extrude the rose by 7 mm. Draw a rectangle around the sketch, fitting the rose inside, which is not too big nor too small. Using the ‘offset’ tool, drag another rectangle, 4 mm away from the original rectangle.
Extrude the inner rectangle by 2 mm.
Extrude the outer rectangle by 10 mm.
