Process Optimization- Body

To begin the process optimization process, our team began by making the body.

For our first run, we utilized the default settings, but approximated the volume of the yoyo.

First body made! Looks really great, but unfortunately there was a lot of flashing

Second body! Still a lot of flashing... 

In order to reduce the flashing, we reduced the velocity at the end of the stroke. We got less flashing, which was great!

Third body! Even less flashing.

 To reduce flashing even more, especially since it appeared to only be on one side of the part, we shimmed the core with a single sheet of paper.

Flash is almost gone!

Shimming the core to prevent flashing

Eventually, we added 4 sheets of paper and were able to minimize the flash and get a great part!

The finalized parameters for the body