Wildcard Week

Objectives for Week 16

Individual Assignment

Design and produce something with a digital 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.

Individual Assignment

We have Zund G3 L-2500 Digital cutter in Super Fablab Kerala. So I tried to explore the digital cutter this week.

Initially I tried making a cardboard phone stand and then I routed wood for the base of my final project.

Design

I downloaded an image of a panda to make as a canvas, so that I can trace the outline using that.

Then I calibrated the canvas to my required size.

Then I traced the outline using the spline tool and mirror it added the bottom portion and a joining part also.

Exported it as .dxf format to machine it in the Zund G3 L-2500 Digital Cutter.

Zund G3 L-2500 Digital Cutter

The Zund G3 L-2500 is a large format, flatbed digital cutter designed for industrial applications. Some of its features are listed below:

Large Cutting Area- The L-2500 designation refers to the cutting bed size. It have a working area of 1800mm x 2500mm

Modular Design- Zund G3 cutters are known for their modular design, which allows for customization with different tools and features to suit specific needs.

Precision Cutting- The G3 is designed for high precision cutting, with features like a zoned vacuum table and precisely controlled cutting heads.

Automatic Tool Changer- It is equipped with automatic tool changer for router module, which can reduce setup times and streamline production

Multiple operation: The G3 can perform 3 different operations at a time.

Turning ON the Machine

Turn ON the compresed air supply.

Press the F1 key in the machine's control pannel to start the machine.

The machine automatically starts the System, Electronics, Modules and Table. Then the tool head come close to the machine's control pannel and a beep sound arises.

The tool head should be anywhere in the machine while starting. After these steps it will come close to the machine's control panel.

Then each module should be initiaised. After the beep sound the screen automatically changes to the module initialisation screen.

Always ensure the tool in the module and in the initialisation screen are same.

Select Init for initialising. select it using the button below it.

Module I was equipped with Creasing Tool Type 1 (CTT1) after
confirming it initialise the tool.

On clicking Init this screen appears. Select Auto Init by number 2.

The tool in the module 1 will be initialised after these steps. Press Esc button to go to the module 2 initialisation.

Repeat the above steps to initialise module 2 and 3.

After completing the module initialisation we needed to initialise the tool magazine also.

Select OK to start magazine initialisation.

After that this screen appears and the machine is ready to use.

Basically we need 3 Softwares to perform our operations in Zund. Details are included in the dropdown below.

The cut editor was used to prepare the cutting files by importing designs, setting cutting methods snd optimising the cutting paths. We can specify operations to each curves or lines in the design. The steps I followed to prepare my design file are as follows,

Imported the file on to the Cut editor.

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