Week 12 - Mechanical and Machine Design

This week we have the following tasks to complete:

• design a machine that includes mechanism+actuation+automation+application
• build the mechanical parts and operate it manually
• document the group project and your individual contribution
• actuate and automate your machine
• document the group project and your individual contribution

Group Assignment

The weekly group assignment can be accessed here.

X-axis Nema 17 LM8UU LM8UU File 8 mm rod

For inspiration for the bushings for the trapezoidal thread rod I looked at igus

What I learn this week

• if you have an subassembly with joints in Inventor 25 it will not allow position manipulation in the main assembly without taping in to the subassembly.

What I want to improve next week

Design Files

To create this page, I used ChatGPT to check my syntax and grammar.

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