Saturday, 3 December 2016

Wooden Mould Design - Vacuum Forming

During breaks between the peer review on monday, i had been going down to the woodwork department to make an appointment to make the wooden mould which i will use to vacuum form my plastic tray to sit inside the box.
I have to go in on thursday, which means i have to draw up the design for the tray, i have to keep in consideration that angles will have to be added to each compartment as for the plastic to be removed from the mould, it needs an angle or the plastic will stick and the mould will not come away.

I had to make concrete decisions on how big each compartment was going to be. Using a tray from the original monopoly board game as a template, i used the overall dimensions, but changed the compartments to make it simplified and suited to what i would like.


This was my first attempt, it took quite some time to get all of the measurements to add up and make the design. The only thing i hadnt done was drawn the angles as i thought they could just be added on by the people in woodwork, but then i realised that this would change a lot of the dimensions.


This is the final design, i wanted to add as much detail as possible so it would be easier for the woodwork technition to understand the design.


I also did a design from a side angle, to show the depth of the pockets and how the tray will dip at a point so the board game, when folded can sit in comfortably.



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