Description
In this project students have the opportunity to fabricate a functioning wooden whistle. Student will experience the process of developing a technical drawing from a design idea using Autodesk Inventor, determining how the product will be produced by developing a manufacturing process planning sheet, and actually fabricating a finished product using basic woodworking tools.
Materials for the project include:
- 3/4" x 3/4" hardwood stock
- Hand saw, band saw, & drill press
- Sandpaper
- Vegetable oil to finish
- 1/4" dowel rods
This lesson includes a set of student instructions that provides an introduction, problem and criteria/constraints, blank manufacturing process planning sheet, and procedure for documenting their project in an engineering notebook. The lesson also includes a presentation and rubric. If you have access to a 3D printer, the link below takes you to a Google Drive folder that has files to print reeds for the whistle in both .STL and MakerBot formats. If you do not have access to a 3D printer, 1/4 dowel rods will work. When using dowel rods, you have to shave the dowel to a half-circle shape and cut them to 3/8".
If you have access to a thermoforming machine, you can use clear thermoforming plastics sheet to have students design and create a package for their whistle using card stock. This process includes applying spray adhesive on their printed design, placing the complete whistle on the card stock, then thermoforming the clear sheet onto the whistle. Packaging templates are included with this lesson.
If you have a wood lathe, you can turn the whistle to make an interesting profile.
Wooden Whistle Manufacturing Process Project using Inventor (CAD/Engineering)
Highlights
Description
In this project students have the opportunity to fabricate a functioning wooden whistle. Student will experience the process of developing a technical drawing from a design idea using Autodesk Inventor, determining how the product will be produced by developing a manufacturing process planning sheet, and actually fabricating a finished product using basic woodworking tools.
Materials for the project include:
- 3/4" x 3/4" hardwood stock
- Hand saw, band saw, & drill press
- Sandpaper
- Vegetable oil to finish
- 1/4" dowel rods
This lesson includes a set of student instructions that provides an introduction, problem and criteria/constraints, blank manufacturing process planning sheet, and procedure for documenting their project in an engineering notebook. The lesson also includes a presentation and rubric. If you have access to a 3D printer, the link below takes you to a Google Drive folder that has files to print reeds for the whistle in both .STL and MakerBot formats. If you do not have access to a 3D printer, 1/4 dowel rods will work. When using dowel rods, you have to shave the dowel to a half-circle shape and cut them to 3/8".
If you have access to a thermoforming machine, you can use clear thermoforming plastics sheet to have students design and create a package for their whistle using card stock. This process includes applying spray adhesive on their printed design, placing the complete whistle on the card stock, then thermoforming the clear sheet onto the whistle. Packaging templates are included with this lesson.
If you have a wood lathe, you can turn the whistle to make an interesting profile.
