CS 294-3: RAPID PROTOTYPING
Lecture #9 -- Oct. 27, 2000.

Designing Parts for 3-Axis Milling

Presentation of your Designs

• What did you want to build
• How did you approach it ?
• Did you succeed ?

The Use of WebCAD

• Your experience with WebCAD
• Things that did not work
• Suggestions for improvements

Part Submission

• Your experience with the submission software
• Any problems ?
• Did you get any mail back ?

Q&A Session with Ashish Mohole

• Some things that you were not told last time:
  - - Arc turning angles CAN be set accurately.
  - - Features CAN be edited in context of features on other sides.
• Status of free-form pockets ?

Open Discussion of WebCAD Problems

• intersecting pockets
• rendering of pockets in islands
• parser problems
• lack of feedback in submission process
• bad file management in rendering

Homework Assignment:

A#9: Design a more challenging part with WebCAD