January 2022– February 2022 (1 month)
Academic Individual Project

The aim of the project was to get hands on experience working with 3 axis HAAS Mini Mill and MasterCAM. I designed Ranger One spaceship inspired from the movie Interstellar.

The part was designed using surfacing modeling tools in SolidWorks and then using the MasterCAM module in Solidworks gcode file was created for milling the part from Aluminium Stock.

Main Learnings of the project were:

1. Understanding considerations for fixturing of stock for machining, Stock Preparation.
2. Choosing right tools and toolpaths.
3. Feeds and speeds.
4. SolidWorks surface modeling.
5. Tradeoffs between machining time and surface finish and accuracy.