In this week's Fixture Friday, we're going to take a deep dive
when it comes to harnessing the power of productivity.
As we pair up our road of ice probe in the fourth axis device,
we're going to be making some sweet CNC machined
Dice.
Now, why the heck are we machining dice?
Well, two reasons.
First, dice presents an interesting problem for a machinist,
and they make a great example part as a teaching tool.
Now, see the second reason for the end of the video.
But for now, let's think about this.
So if you had the machine, this in a three axis machine using the standard device,
it would require at least two unique setups
and six touches because every case is different.
Right.
And by touch, I mean you have to interact with it
six times to present a new face.
Now, by adding a fourth axis, you can have access to multiple faces, precise goal.
So if we're holding it just by itself
in some type of self center device attached to the rotary,
we could machine for all of these faces all the way around,
but we would still have to machine the top and the bottom.
Now we'd be doing a little better by bringing down the number of touches
and the number of setups would come down to three.
But it's still one part at a time.
So I'm going to show you how we process four parts per cycle,
and two of those parts come out completely finished using our Rotovise Pro.
Let's take a closer look.
OK, so.
Hopping into fusion here is our setup.
So a few things to go over.
This model of the Rotovise is freely downloadable on our Web site.
Piersonworkholding.com.
Once we bring it in, there's a couple more models you want to import.
And the first one is this set of soft jaws.
Now, let me hide this die right here so you can get a closer view of that.
Now, we've modeled these soft jaws
up and created an integrated work stop right here.
So the basic workflow is we are going to machine off one this dye
and this dye in the serrated jaws you can see right there.
And if we take a look at the.
Side, you'll see that it is sitting once.
Take a look at this one.
It is sitting. Above.
Where the the jaws stop.
So you're not going to be machining into the jaws.
In fact, we only need to machine deep enough
to avoid this corner rounded section right here.
So let me turn this back on.
And when you take a look at this, the basic workflow
is that you will machine this top one and the bottom one.
And then once those are done.
Those dice get rotated
indexed by hand, essentially,
and placed into the soft jaw location.
Now everything is symmetrical, so you can't really make a mistake.
Here we have OP one, op one,
and then op to and op two
Now, this is where you want to pay close attention.
So if you look at this star, we have the one side,
the five side, and as we rotate around the two side,
when this is done, each operation,
we're going to take a finished die out and that's going to be
a completely finished one that goes right to our workbench or our cart.
And then we're going to move this die over into the second operation.
Workstation.
And remember, we have one, five and two.
And if you look at this one, we have 36 and four.
So we're getting three fresh faces each operation.
That's how we get four work pieces.
Per cycle to.
Finish dice per cycle as well.
So that is the setup in a nutshell.
Let's check out some cool machining footage.
I'll take a
Music
So a four parts loaded,
six machine faces and two
100% finished parts per cycle.
It's tough to beat.
Now, I promise there was a second reason that we're machining dice.
Well, we recently passed 10,000 followers on Instagram.
And to celebrate, I said, hey, let's make something cool.
Like, Oh, I don't know, some FATTY DICE and give them away.
So I'll drop a link in the description below to the post over on Instagram.
Now, here's the crazy thing that happened after we decided to do this
We first bought enough material to make the prizes, and it took like no time.
It was something like we were done in a couple of hours.
Well, I thought, let's order some more material and do a full blown
production run since it went that fast and everything set up ready to go.
So here's the deal.
If you're a follower of the channel and you want to support it in some way,
we're going to be listing these dice for sale on our website for purchase.
Now, I'll probably never do.
A patreon is kind of not my thing.
So let's call it a one time chance to say thanks.
If you're so inclined.
Now, if rolling the dice isn't your thing in life, no big deal.
All I ask is that you keep innovating in your production.