Floor Drain

Floor Drain Plasma Cut

After the HS Automotive Technology Lab shop floor was epoxied this past summer, there was a need to replace missing and damaged floor drains. We reverse engineered the original design, created a new design in Autodesk Inventor and a new set on the plasma cutter.

Removed from classroom

Original Drain. Only one of the four original drains were undamaged.

Measure it and re-create it.

Original drain reverse engineered in Autodesk Inventor

Re-imagine it

The new floor drain design

G-CODE - FLOOR DRAIN

Prepare for manufacturing

G-Code (machine code) to control the tool path for cutting the new part.

CUT

1/8" Steel cutting at 85 amps on the plasma cutter.

Finished Parts

After a bit of clean up, these are the finished parts ready to be installed in the floor.

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