Shaper Workstation Tutorial

this is the instructions video for the shape of workstation in this video we're going to go through the workstation using it alongside origin how to get the best out of it we're gonna start with all the components break them down look at all the features see how they go together and then walk you through a few configurations that common ones that you'll use here's the shape of workstation as it comes in the package clamping face is on the back so we pop that off first here's the clamping face lots of slots for clamps and we actually include some clamps that get you going we'll get more into the details of that in a second here is the main body this is the underside so you'll see there's actually some tapped mounting holes for various work surfaces little rubber feet so that when you flip it around and place it on your work surface it just doesn't jiggle about too much so then this little protrusion here enables us to clamp to this there's a slot for MFT tabletops where you can fit your clamps through there and then there's holes for if you want to permanently mount or you know screw it into your work surface so we'll do that here to start with so I'm just using some washers this is the sort of more destructive but super straightforward way to mount it now that's fixed in place not going anywhere so what we have here is a super flat plain of tape with a durable adhesive across the top of it so this means we don't have to keep using shaper tape that's going to remain in place and then we're gonna work out in front of that so this front face has been machined to exactly 90 degrees so you can always be confident you're at 90 degrees no matter where you mount your clamping face three locations here we can mount it flush with the top so that's just ever so slightly below your tape plane but if you need to cut and you're going to intersect with those aluminium there's two different options we can lower it down to the 25 millimeter height and that's a spur board that will fit behind there or we can go down one more to the 50 millimeter height and we have a spoil board that will fit there so we'll put a clamping face on the 25 millimeter height so this is at the 25 millimeter height and then you'll notice it's sitting loose at the moment we just tighten these up it doesn't have to be too insane now we have a very strong 90 degree relationship between these two planes now these are the vertical alignment pins you notice everything's been developed as a system so everything's using the same 4 millimeter hex wrench and we include that they just back out and give you a perfect vertical reference edge it's a really cool little feature so they stow away when you don't need them but this will get us at perfect 90 degree angle every time and it's always going to be in a consistent location because we index using this system that's all guaranteed to index into the same location every time and we have symmetrical pair that lock in on the opposite side exactly the same idea that's a known index point that's never going to change that you can confidently come back to at any stage here are some examples using the vertical alignment pins we should put two of these clamps with the shape of workstations so you can see they work great for most situations straight off the bat but also the t-slot our industry standard eight millimeter slot at the top with a machined 15 millimeter tee and behind so most the clamps you have sitting around that are standard designed 40 slots will actually work in here perfectly well as well so now we're gonna look at how we attach spoil board the sport boards are made of nice MDF 25 millimeters high and 50 millimeters higher we ship two of these they're user replaceable you can make your own and we include the dimensions in the manual the spoil board prevents your stock from chipping out as the cutter passes out the backside of the material it also provides space for the cutter to travel without colliding with the aluminium body or clamping face so you'll notice there's a gap behind our spoil board here so I'm going to tension this with these little cams you'll see how it comes out and applies pressure from behind this oil board so we can use the hex wrench here again with the spoil board there we're going to just slowly apply pressure and you'll see it come out and just touch your object you don't want force otherwise the front face that you're indexing against it'll be pushed proud of that so we just want it to touch that and then you match that distance with the others you'll still feel it just touch but you don't want it to push it so that means now our spoil board is preventing chip out behind our object with the pressure coming from this little cam clamping face is already a spoil board is prepped we're at the right height on to the next phase now going to show you how to support origin out beyond the surface here we have the support arms so we're going to create a little platform out the front here for supporting origin as it can to leave us out over this surface if you were to do a big ten and you want to make sure origin doesn't Rock as it comes out the front so these are removable enabling us to clamp any number of you know long strange shapes in here but we can always put these back to the same location if you ever have doubts about the height of these in the bottom here you'll see a little sets group that can be adjusted to change the height of this just up and down ever so slightly should you need to make an adjustment there so here are the two support arms they slot down there and you'll notice they sit loose until you tighten them up and we're gonna do up the little ox screw this is now very sturdy and here's a little detail I like the locking screws have a little elongated point which gives you a quick idea of what state they're in so they're currently locked unlocked so you can see now loose this and then when you lock them they both face in basically the same direction there this is the support bar there's some little clamps that in here quickly secure this in place so the pressure that these apply can be adjusted here there should be set appropriately from the factory but if you're able to move it around you can just tighten and loosen and these have a little nylon attachment so they don't move so it's a very sturdy very flat very consistent surface that this surface matches our tape surface so notice these little mounting points here these are designs so that the support bar attaches and then that gives you a very clean reference height four zero so we can now keep these two points engaged and push this up and you'll see at the top there I get a very confident zero point now that we have a plane set up a support bar is coplanar with our tape field we can confidently run origin across here without cantilevering our hitting any bumps and that will enable us to accurately cut safely and precisely throughout next up we're going to look at how to fit a tenon at an angle this is like a stool leg or something you'll notice the standard indexing pins not much help to us so here's how we'd start out with our stop that we want a fixture in here something like this we have the ability to do that here's the angle fence which will help us fixture and whatever angle up to about 45 you notice the two index pins serve as a reference and then we have a little 8 millimeter screw there which can be done up firmly or with a lot of these you can loosely tighten things just while you're working and then tension them up the whole way for this particular operation we're going to use the support bar in this state to get us a reference angle here now we can continually come back to that location with future chair legs ready to go so that's now fixed and we're ready to cut notice even with this all fixed it up we can still get in here and mount this at one of the alternative heights a lot of effort has been put into making sure various touch points are accessible regardless of what state you're in there so this is now the 50 millimeter height same process again our angle hasn't changed so that doesn't need adjusting you just bring this up now make sure these aren't doing major talking operations as you tighten them up you can get it so that it's pulling away from your index points if you don't have them nicely aligned at the beginning but that's ready to go make sure you leave enough clearance here for whatever cutter to clear your material so here you can see we've got a flat plane support bar and our tape field are all 100% coplanar and that enables us to cut this element and smoothly transition across it even though we can't leave that a long way up from the original support body the support bar actually takes care of us and guarantees us safe precise operation with our origin to create a shape like this to provide flexibility we'll get the alignment pins on the right hand side as well so you can flip and rotate the angle friends 45 degrees in the opposite direction and have two setups or just more ranges of angles you can use here's a shelf this enables us to quickly clamp things in place and work on small awkward elements quickly and efficiently so it's set up in a way we have these T slot attachments which fit in these channels here combined with a quick release lever that has three position the lowest position is kind of free-floating the second position is a little firmer and then the final position is fully clamped so that's locked in place so that enables us to very rapidly get elements ready to go so we'd put it in the second location bring it up a little high with our support bar we can press it down confirm we're aligned and then bring it all the way up to clamp it in place now this element is coplanar to our type field and we're ready to cut it really efficient reduces the barrier to getting projects up and running the spoil board on top cup files will be available by a shape-up so the idea is you can expand upon this replace this adapted so here's a quick example of one I've been using I have these little hole pattern and Hinn's I can place wherever I like you can make whatever you wish that'll give you a lot of flexibility there here's an example of a great little project that traditionally is quite hard to work hold here's the original stock you'd start with traditionally you'd end up sort of shimming areas around this to get the same height for your tape field as this we're gonna work with a little shelf here see here we have a really robust aluminium framed shelf with a little custom spoil board on top and a little canned lever to lock it in place but it'll slot into these channels and then so in this state it moves with just a modest amount of friction which is quite good for getting things prepped to the right height and then we've also got the ability to really clamp it all the way up and at that point it's basically fixed notice at the bottom these don't continue the whole way through you don't have to worry about pushing it down too far and having it fall on your feet and damage anything so it only comes out the top which means you need to remove the oil board and in this case we're actually gonna bring this up to its top position the same process because we're cutting inside the stock we don't have to worry about colliding with this with the spoil board which would have been here we don't have to worry about the cutter colliding with the aluminium notice it doesn't collide with your vertical indexing pins if you leave them out by mistake and then we would double-sided tape this in place because there's a little bit of friction here I can sort of put it anywhere I like and then same process we can bring it up and use that to reference for height and we can even use that to reference there if we were to do like a production run of several of these we would do that and then clamp it down so that then would be how to place getting my double sided tape prepped now if a clamp it in place at that height it's always gonna be the right height you notice and smooth and flat the whole way out here and I can now cut whatever shape I want into this and also replace it with the next piece of stock should I want to do more than one that's nice and secure with the shape of workstation there's a couple of options for probing strategies there's one that's probing your stock itself the way we often do so two probes for the x-axis to measure this point so bring the cutter down touch the edge - and then y-axis with three so that gets you a zero point here now that's specific to this particular piece of wood the alternative is to probe the actual leading edge of the workstation instead of probing your wood you bring the clamping face up to its top position so that we can probe it here so this is the x-axis - and then this stock is actually indexed against this pin so that gets me a y-axis that's zero on that pin you'll see we've got a probe shank exposed there we're gonna bring that down lower it down so that we're touching this edge so we can probe against this side once so we'll take it over to the left side and we're going to make sure we don't fall into one of those t-slot tracks and then just touch it lightly probe X and then we come around and probe this edge because it's indexed against that pin so now we have this workspace where zero zero point is this top edge of this stock and any stock we put in there so long as it indexes against that pin and is sitting against this clamping face that's going to be zero zero so if I use this anchor point and align it to zero zero I'm aligned in that top corner obviously in this state we don't want to cut this and collide with this panel but we can drop that down and that indexing plane is gonna remain unchanged so you'll see if I was to come back and reuse this workspace my stock is gonna remain in here as though it was this even though I could have inserted a new element that's a different shape to perform this mortise in the top of this organic chair element we'll create our own little custom fixture notice of back to these out so the vertical alignment pins ready to go and notice there's two holes here one is for the vertical alignment pin the other is for eight millimeter screwed to fixture things in place so this one is cut really accurately to make sure there's not a lot of play there so you get consistent alignment each time you fixture it up and the other one is just so that it can be pressed against this surface firmly now I've got my support arms out and I can set this in here like so we get positive alignment here we could see that's held in place appropriately then we just tighten these up so we check here everything's fixtured so quickly we can mortise this out and what would have been quite a challenging task to align accurately even just work hold he's now a walk in the park with custom fixture and then you can see we flip this 180 degrees and we can cut the one fixture two parts nice and efficient so as you can see the workstation itself whilst being feature-rich is only a starting point you can continue make all your own fixtures make your own shelves and take it in any direction you need to achieve the job at hand thanks for tuning into our workstation overview series we're looking forward to seeing these in the field and seeing where you all take these this is just a starting point obviously it's a very robust accurate consistently indexable system that means that origins always well supported throughout the cutting operation as is your stock and we can guarantee that it's all aligned at the appropriate angles fixtured in place robustly ready to get working which is a common challenge that everyone encounters usually they have to work around it with MDF and all sorts of crazy custom jigs we're hoping to take care of most of that here meaning your ideas precipitate sooner you're more productive [Music] 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Length: 17min 59sec (1079 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 30 2020