Learning Moment of the Week

We're really good at coming up with bad ideas.  Our first terribly great idea was really complicated designs (that are going to look awesome but currently...).  Then, when making the thermoform dies, we thought we would just mill the entire thing.  As we continued to work on our dies, we got stuck trying to reduce the time for the milling operations.  We got as high as 10 hours, and as low as 1.5.  But then, we talked to Dave.  It's amazing what people who know things can do!  We realized we could actually remove a lot of material on the lathe, and then go back and mill the fine details around our central design, especially because our designs are circular.  So we'll be turning in terrible timed dies for deliverable II, but should have tales of great improvement by the end of the weekend!