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While still under employment at IPS I was made aware of a senior project that the owner Mike Brask wanted me to do for my project; he has had experience with SUU students beforehand and had a project prepared. The basics of my project would be based around SolidWorks as well as their new CNC (computer numeric controlled) Lathe that had just been purchased. While working on my senior project I was able to experience new training, new machines as well as hand programming for CNC machines.
The current software, AutoCAD was currently being used with a combination of MasterCam. AutoCAD would support the design work while MasterCam would be used to program the CNC router. The new program, SolidWorks would be used to convert all of the flat models …show more content…

I was also able to work with and train with the current users of the lathe, as well as receive out of school training on how to more effectively use SolidWorks in a shop setting. For the second half I was also tasked with helping integrate the new CNC lathe into daily use at IPS. For this to happen I was to meet salesmen as well as receive training from the manufactures of the lathe.
The training for SolidWorks was far more intense then what I have learned in house at SUU, it was a five day course, consisting of eleven to twelve hour days of training. The company called Go Engineering provided the training as well as laptops and big handbooks of all the topics covered while training. Starting with the more advanced features of SolidWorks such as assemblies and animations, we worked our way through some different add-ons such as Weldments, Sheet Metal and even some Fluid animation add-ons.
After the training for SolidWorks there some concerns over whether or not implementing in would take too long and cause too much “heart ache.” After reviewing the training as well as covering new material that would help automate certain processes of design there was more cooperation as well as some excitement to push forward with the …show more content…

Although there was a late start with getting the machine, it did give ample time to get the correct sub-programs working for the lathe. These are called post processors, they can tell MasterCam what type of machine it is working with, and how to control its specific parameters. They also hold very important bits of information such as where the tool holder is and the home position for the machine. I worked with Marc Sullivan from Remote Machining to be able to understand and get the correct post processor working, he was able to walk me through the process of setting up the SolidWorks to communicate with the

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