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Had a very busy week last week trying to fill a new shop with heaps of our product and of course products need to have boxes. Normally I don't need to send out so many different products in such a short time frame and in the past it would normally take me 5 or 10 minutes or more to set up to stamp these box lids. This is what I came up with and I think the same idea can be applied to most embossing machines one way or the other. Assembled box lids can be a real pain in that they need the platform built up inside the box to press against and to also locate the box in order to have the stamp in the middle of the box sometimes along the box and sometimes across the box. With embossing of different products normally the stamping is done down on the flat and I have many cardboard patterns that get changed over quite quickly by a simple change of screws as shown in this first picture. In the pic above you notice a steel sliding table that allows me to pull the product out and check the quality of the embossing before removing the article from the holding jig. This next pic shows the steel platform removed exposing the slide section underneath. This next pic shows the range of box types I want to now stamp along with their new 3D printed platforms. This picture shows my new slide platform holder that is printed to allow the attaching blocks to be faced in either direction. This first one is for the long pen case. Worked good so next I simply pull out the block and go to the next size. I worked out ahead to make all the blocks the same height in order to not have to adjust pressure settings in between. In the drawing process I should add that once I worked out the location pegs and the centre one I just copied the same along into each block. After that each block took about 2 minutes to draw and save to STL files. I should also say that it is best to put in your tweak setting to slow to half speed when the pegs are about to start. I will post a couple of more pictures to finish off shortly.