Computer-Aided Tool and Fixture
Design
- Semester credits: 3
- Lecture contents
- Economics of tool design
- Tool materials
- Workholding devices
- Workholding
principles
- Elements of
workholding devices
- Locators
- Clamps
- Chucks and vises
- Tool body
- Drill jigs
- Basic types of drill
jigs
- Jig bushings
- Procedure of
designing a jig
- Fixtures
- Milling fixtures
- Lathe fixtures
- Other types of
fixtures
- Modular fixturing
- Gages
- Basic principles of
gaging
- Gaging geometric
dimensions
- Cutters
- Tool signatures
- Tool life
- Cutting forces and
power
- Dies
- Shear action in die
cutting
- The center of
pressure
- Die block general
design
- Text
Reid, D.T.(Publication administrator)
Fundamentals of Tool Design
3rd edition, 1991
SME
- Main references
- Donaldson, C., LeCain,
G.H., Goold, V.C.
Tool Design
1973
McGraw-Hill
- Boyes, W.E. (Editor)
Low-Cost Jigs, Fixtures and Gages for Limited Production
1986
SME