Training was great. This is the largest machine I've ever used, and it was intimidating at first, especially given the fire hazard.
I asked Dan whether we could try to only up cut three times (instead of down - up - up) and see how that changes the product. We did -- and as expected, having an initial upcut removed more wood and saved the tool-changing work, but caused some not-pretty delamination near the cuts.
Cutting out the final piece from its tabs -- this was oddly fun. I had never seen the kind of mini automatic saw we had, and I enjoyed using it.
We measured the final pieces to check tolerances. With the taper, the pieces barely fit into most slots, and fit really well into some of the larger slots.
Meta picture.
So -- let's make a huge trashcan for my final project, shall we?
Much of the initial design process is documented in Week 1's sketching assignment.
The final sketch looked like:
After fighting with Fusion until I had the needed machine-code, Shunying was so kind to buddy up with me.
Things worked fairly smoothly on the first cutting attempt.
After the initial tool change, I noticed that the first upcut already cut quite deep. I got something in the feedrates wrong. So instead of a second upcut, we terminated the cut after the first. The cut depth from that was sufficient to extract all the board pieces.
After a lot of sanding until the board fingers had the perfect width, everything fit together quite nicely. Hello world!
Reward tang hulu 糖葫芦 for us:
