Concept Design to Manufacturing
From initial sketches to flow analysis to injection molding. This desk clock may seem simple but hidden is many hours prototyping, analysis, manufacturing and testing.
Initially designed using injection molding principles, generous draft angles were used and constant wall thickness utilized. Cold slugs and sprue locations were strategically placed to hide post machining marks and to provide uniform filling while molding.
Fill time, sink marks, and warping were analyzed using Fusion flow analysis.
Manufacturing was a crucial step, really taking the time to make sure each machine pass was blending in the desired surface finish for the final mold took hours of CAM rework and machining.
Following that even more hours of testing, and changing variables on the injection molder were spent to ensure the final product was perfect.
Definitely one of the coolest projects I've done so far. To not only design something from concept to bringing it into life in a fashion such as injection molding was truly amazing.
