Handle Fixture Design and 3D Printing

Fig. 1 Fry Pan From Great Jones

Design a fixture to measure the handles was my first task when I was an intern at DorisDev. Great Jones was a US start-up company that selling their own kitchenwares. My company -- DorisDev helped Great Jones to design and conduct product development on their full suite kitchenware products.

Fig. 2 CAD Drawing of the fry pan

I will focus on the handle fixture design which I had done. The material of the handle is SS304 and coated with Titanium layers by PVD. Since Lost wax casting was used as the manufacturing process, high tolerance may ouccured. Before the mass production of Handles, the factory has to send us some protoypes to confirm, so a nice fixture was needed if we want to know how big the tolerance was.

Fig. 3 Measuring the position of the Fixture

Fig. 4 First Design of the Fixture

I spent an hour on designing the fixture (I'm noob), and my head, Lead of Design Engineering, Lucas Lappe told me that some problems happened in my design.

So I tried my second attempt.

Fig. 5 First part of Second Design

Fig. 6 Back part of the Second design

I had fixed the problems after the next hour, and I spilited the fixture into 2 halfs just because the 3D printing machine has limited tool path.

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I glued the two halfs into one single part and became a real handle fixture that ready to use.