Misc. Manufacturing Processes

This project was to create a wall mounted business card holder which involved custom CNC laser cut steel, custom CNC machined aluminum, plastic injection molding, and powder coating.

The CNC laser cut was designed in SolidWorks with toolpaths programmed in HSMWorks. This was cut by me with a HAAS laser cutter on campus. The pattern is Mount Diablo in the Bay Area in California.

The CNC machined aluminum was designed in SolidWorks with toolpaths programmed in HSMWorks. This was machined by me on campus with a HAAS VF-2. The catch tray on the bottom to hold the cards in had to be cut out on the left in order to ensure that the card would not be at an angle due to the fillet left by the radius of the cutter. There is an engraving on the elevated surface which was designed and manufactured before the possibility of powder coating was brought up.

The plastic injection molded "CP" logo was injected by me on campus, and gating/flashing was removed.

We were given the option to send our aluminum card holders to be powder coated, which resulted in the muddled engraving on the elevated surface around the "CP" logo.

Welding on campus exposed me to GTAW, SMAW, Brazing, Soldering, Oxy-Acetylene Cutting, and Plasma Cutting. Additionally, different techniques and materials were tested with a tensile testing machine and the failure was examined.