This week one task we focused on was using the Haas to make the other half of the threadless lead screw nut. Next week I will clamp the two halves of the nut together with a 1/16 in. shim and use either the bridgeport or the Haas to machine the bolt pattern for the inserts and the the clearance hole for the shaft. I will also machine the inserts with the required pitch angle! The goal is to have the CAM done for these procedures completed as well as updated CAD before lab Monday morning.
Here is the initial cad for the updated threadless leadscrew nut using inserts to determine the pitch angle. it is a bit clunky, but should be relatively easy to machine!
We also started machining our bearing block and motor mounts! We created the CAM for the motor mounts and nearly finished machining all three during Monday's lab. We also developed most of the CAM for the bearing block mounts.
We haven't created any new CAD parts, as we are mostly bottlenecked by manufacturing right now. We are going a little slowly with respect to the manufacturing, but are progressing steadily and have much lined up to CNC. Hopefully, we can make one axis soon, and although we are a smaller team, we're machining in parallel and trying to maximize our shop time.