Aluminum Maze Cube

For my machining project I decided to make a maze cube that would be machined on all six faces. I modeled the cube in SolidWorks by importing an image of a maze and centering it on a cube and tracing out the paths. Using an aluminum piece of stock of 2”x2”x2” I faced all sides to have a completely squared part. I used CAMWORKS to machine the maze of each face with a 1/16” end mill. In the slideshow is a depiction of one face of the cube that has the CAM tool path. The tool path for this face and the remaining faces were made by using the trace function and giving the tool an offset in the settings. Three depths were implemented so that the end mill did not experience a large chip load based on the calculated feed rate for an aluminum piece of metal with a carbide 1/16" endmill. For all faces the origin was made at the top left corner where all the features were referenced from. An edge finder and the dowel pin method were repeated six times to zero each face.