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Description of Project
Description of Project
The purpose of this prodject it to know how to use CAM in fusion 360. We will also learn how to nagvigate a CNC. We will be using Bantam Software to engrave a dog and and use a milling machine to mill a wax block. After that we will use our knowledge from previous projects to design a box for our wax mold and cut it out.
Notability drawing
Corel draw design
To make this design I had to upload the dog tag template, then I had to pick my design and remove the background, and lastly I had to make everything hairline.
This is the video of the dog tag
This is the picture of my final dog tag
Work Flow
Work Flow
Find an 80 degree fit
Click the switch at the back of the machine
Select the right spot
Remove all the plastic
Use the tool to twist and loosen it
Place the fit inside and twist it in with the tools
Go into phantom software and select metal engraving fill (80)
Locate the tool
Place the double sided tape on the dog tag and trim it
Find the dimension of the dog tag and thickness with the tape
Press loading on the computer and place the dog tag in the box with the sticky side up.
Make sure it's lined up in the corner
Make sure the units are in millimeters when you export it and save it as a SVG
Open Bantam software and open your saved files
Turn off cut of and turn on engrave
Make sure the measurements are correct the you’ve chose the correct mill
Make sure your design is placed in the correct position and press mill all visible to begin
When it is
Problems I Encountered
Problems I Encountered
One problem that I faced while using the milling machine is that 1/2 of my design wasn't showing up on the computer so I had to minimize the size of my design in order to see it on the computer.
Notabililty Drawing
I chose to make this design because it was near valentines day and I wanted to do something festive.
Fusion 360 Design
The software for this was differ
Final Wax
Corel Draw Box design
Since we couldn't make small tabs, like we did on a past prodject, we decided to make one big tab to fold on the corners.
Video of Box Cutting
Box logo
Box
Problems I Encountered
Problems I Encountered
One problem we encountered is that when we were designing our box, we couldn't changed the colors on the box to differenciate between score and raster. To fix this we had to make indiviual lines, which took a lot of time.
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