LESSON 8.4 · 1:45 · CHAPTER 8 · MACHINES, PATHS AND MACHINING
Machine below the valleys
The cut has to reach past the scallops between rounded beads, plus the warp, plus the machine's error.
Predict · at 0:29 in the video
5.08 millimetre layers with rounded edges, a millimetre of expected warp, and half a millimetre of robot error. What's the minimum stock per face?
About four millimetres. Half a layer is 2.54. Plus one for warp, plus half for the robot.
Further reading
This course is our own. These books go deeper.
- The economics of Big Area Additive Manufacturing, Post et al., Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 2016
- Additively manufactured carbon fibre-reinforced composites: state of the art and perspective, van de Werken et al., Composites Part A, 2020
About the numbers
Simulations in this lesson are our own. Where a number rests on an assumption or a single source, the video marks it with an asterisk and says where it comes from.
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