Pallet for CAM

[Anonymous]

I have finished the development phase on a part I make and am moving into the production phase.

To do so, I contacted MiteeBites about various workholding solutions and they helped develop a pallet system to facilitate the process.  Their pallet was 12" x 12" and contains a lot of their products, some of which are quite expensive, so on their advise, I started with a test pallet.

I started by inserting the part, adding material to represent the blank size, and then added the MiteeBite components one by one until the test pallet was complete with clearances necessary to complete the machining without interference.

Next, I set an offset plane 1" from the base surface and then sketched a rectangular box to encompass everything.  Then I intended to extrude material the full one inch in hopes of having cavities formed where the MiteeBites were at so I could finish them into machinable cavities.  I saw a technique someplace on one of the tips or videos from Fusion about mold and form making which described a similar process.

In this case, as the screencast shows, the extrusion simply joins all the materials together into a solid, so next I tried projecting on to the original sketch and was going to process each extrusion separately.  Instead, I decided to contact the forum because I am sure I saw a procedure here to do what I'm trying to do without all of the added steps.

My goal is to machine the underlying 1" pallet.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Bob

[Anonymous]

I don't know why the screencast didn't post, but here it is: Pallet Screencast

[LibertyMachine]

This belongs in the Design Forum, I'll flag this post for moving.

What you are looking to do isn't as simple and quick as what you might be expecting. There are several ways of going about this. Would you be able to share the base fixture (not the part)

Extrude, Combine, Offset faces as needed.

Extrude a short distance below the clamps, project the profile of the clamps onto the surface, extrude the rest of the way

Extrude the 1", project necessary edges onto top surface, cut into the model using Extrude(Q)

[Anonymous]

Hi Seth,

You are right that it wasn't as simple as I thought it might be.  I did end up sketching and projecting each of the components and then individually extruding them to the appropriate heights.

The fixture base, as drawn, has all of the components and the part attached and I uploaded a screencast to show what I came up with.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/a850a4a6-9d69-4a8b-8b18-76656535d77e

Thanks