Fusion 360 - Optimizing Large Patterns to design a Fixture Plate
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- In this video, I'll design a fixture plate that is designed to mount in in the dovetails jaws of a Mlock 125 Duo vise. I'll also cover some tips on how to deal with large patterns as well as mitigating automatic geometry projections.
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Before everyone who didn’t bother to search piles on, look for this type of thing: “Standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s it has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 25.4 mm.”
So, yes, inches are by definition a metric system of measurement. Just based on very weird multiples.
I love the video! Your content is always so easy to follow along with. Thank you!
Thanks for the great video Kevin. I continue to learn new things from you every time I tune in! I am going to design a fixture plate for our SuperMiniMill. I think 1” thick 6061 aluminum and bolt it to the T slots semi-permanently. The plan is to use dowel pins on our vise, the Pierson ProPallet system and our 4th/5th axis indexer. The plan is to make it easier to change these fixtures as needed in a timely manner. Going to use stainless steel percision bushings press fit into the fixture plate for the alignment dowels. I like the 1/2”-13 bolting pattern you did as that would be useful for larger parts that don’t work great in a vise. Thanks again!
Great video Kevin! Thanks for sharing.
I use F360 for 1/87 HO scale 3D model creation & 3D printing. While your project itself isn't useful to my interest, your tips are incredibly useful!! Thanks for this video!
Thanks for sharing 👍
Great video Kevin! The mirror doesn't work by default because the Pattern was set to Optimized. I found that the mirror needs to match the pattern settings. So "Adjust" is default but if you set it to Identical or optimized then your mirror needs to match. Only for Features. If you pattern faces you won't get that option.
Hi. Thanks for stopping by. That may currently be the case, but it shouldn’t need to work that way. The reason I know it’s an issue is bringing this up to the Fusion PMs from a training class part I do. In that part everything is adjust and often the mirror fails. I know this is an issue they are working to correct.
@@MechanicalAdvantage Thanks for the info!
Nice tip about getting rid of the auto-projected items.
Thanks. I get why they did it, but it kind of drives me nuts. You could see how quickly it made an impact on performance. I understand it is easier for new users to not know about projecting geometry but in the long run, auto projecting everything is the wrong default.
Hi Kevin,
I believe you will get a lot of clamping distortion if the plate is not bolted to the table. Try running an indicator over the plate before and after you clamp a part to make sure the plate is not flexing due to clamping pressure. I love Fusion 360 and learned a lot from your excellent videos. Thanks for sharing.
Steve
Hi Steve! I don’t disagree with you. I haven’t run the indicator on it yet. The job this will be cutting is for custom signs that hold hardware for roto-molded parts. So I think the tolerance is about +/- 1/2” haha I have an idea for supports for the ends. I’m not sure I’d ever use this for a precision job. Maybe if I can build some adjustable supports that will let me dial the deviation out of it.
GREAT little video! FYI, if you change your units from inches to feet, it will tell you mass in pounds. :) But you're right. It's super annoying. I wish there was a way to set that preference too. Cheers
Hello Kevin, I have a part I will need to clamp and drill holes into then use the holes to bolt the part to a fixture plate so I can remove the clamps. After the drilling cycle how do I program in a wait for operator M0 to facilitate me bolting the part down? As you can tell I am very new to cam. Your videos are great and I have learned a lot from them. Keep up the great work.
On the setup drop down menu up on the tool toolbar, you will see something called Manual NC. Choose that and you can add things like optional stops or stops to the program.
That was some really useful info there for multiple holes, but will take a few views to digest the way the additional holes were drawn.
What was the weight in Kg? 😁
What does it weigh in Kg? Who cares! 😜😂
Hopefully it was helpful. Thanks for stopping by.
@@MechanicalAdvantage 😂
So who made it for you?
Neil from Tritegrity Machine out of Michigan
I know you were being playful about the measurement in millimeters, but the entire thing is done in millimeters. Sure, inches, but inches are defined in terms of millimeters. Check it if you don’t believe me. :).
So really when I design in even, round, reasonable numbers in millimeters, it’s the imperial guy who is using weird stuff. You want a 1” by 2” rectangle you are, by definition, asking for a 25.4 by 50.8mm rectangle. Weird. I’d have gone with 25x50 If I needed something about that size. :).
Yeah, it's too bad really. I can't believe they limped the kernel by basing it on the metric system haha
@@MechanicalAdvantage lol! It was a lot better back around the start of wwii when an inch varied between about 24 to 31mm around the world!
Love your videos and sense of humor. Keep them both coming!!
@@MechanicalAdvantage Yeah and in the back end everything is CM :)
Now only 2 3rd countries and Murika are using banana units. 😂😂😂
How flat is the fixture plate?
Not sure yet. We didn’t put a lot of effort into this first prototype. Just wanted to see if the concept was even worth looking into.
You could put jack screws on four corners to stop vibration
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