How to fixture map, submit your drawings here. We can help!

Let us help you get your weldment fixtured. Please submit your drawings and we can help make you a fixture map and fixture placement using the Fireball table system. We might even make a video on your part. The ones I’ve done are listed here:

Submission from @kylelucydesigns

Fixture Map

Tutorial

Submission from @Haasmetaldesigns

Fixture Map

Tutorial

Submission from @thomas_browne

Fixture Map

Tutorial

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Don’t have anything ready drawing wise, but do have a suggestion. How about fixturing a tube structure, sorta like a cage, where the entire structure has to be fixtured at one time to meet dimensional and alignment criteria. Think a section of a steel tubing fuselage.

Actually thought of something better. For simplicity, do a racked and truncated three sided pyramid.

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Do not have cad but here is a drawing I would love how would you fixture a gate

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Hi Jason, I’d be interested in seeing how you’d fixture this frame:

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@kylelucydesigns @Haasmetaldesigns Yep looks pretty straight forward, give me and the team a few days. Everyone is gone for the weekend. Jason

My God man! Every time I watch one of your videos - especially about the tables - it just makes me more and more and more determined to get one ‘someday’!

And, of course, that ‘someday’ is… a long, long time from now.

Love what you do, thanks for everything, @Fireball_Jason! And all the rest of the team, as well!

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Here’s a Fixture map example for the gate.

And here’s the tutorial

Here’s the fixture map for the conveyor.

UPDATE: @kylelucydesigns I’ve made a step by step video on why & how I placed the fixtures on the map

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Thanks Jason!

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I love this thread. so cool to see the solutions.

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Here is a example of a fixture map for this part. It is a 2 part fixture operation. First operation is the s section. The second is the angle iron placement.

Thank you for this video. I was missing the step of creating the drawing to get the measurements. I was trying to measure from the assembly. I thought your cad had special powers. Lol.

Thank you
But how would you fixture up the bars ?

To fixture up the bars I would start off by using the table to set your center picket. After that is welded in I would go back using two stacks of shims to set your picket widths one at a time, it would not be time or fixture efficient to fixture out every single picket in a gate or railing. Get yourself a center reference and shim out off of that you will be within a 1/16 which should be fine for pickets.


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Trailer Ramps also with state of the art CAD drawings.

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You should always make your drawings so someone who does not have your Vision in there head
can make sense of them, are easy to read.

Take advantage of that full sheet of paper! :rofl:

Do you have a method for setting up weird angles on fixture table?
None of these are at a 45 or 90 would I still have to use a protractor?