[Swansea Hackspace] 3D CNC milling?

[David Davies-Day]

Ive watched a few of these Ny CNC videos, always quality informatiom.

https://youtu.be/-8upDZVgxfc

There is a 30 day demo of sprutcam...

http://www.sprutcamamerica.com/

No idea what the cost is, hopefully, for now at least, the 30 day demo will help you get the results your looking for.



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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> </div><div>Date:02/06/2015  16:58  (GMT+00:00) </div><div>To: hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk </div><div>Cc:  </div><div>Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] 3D CNC milling? </div><div>
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On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:46 +0100, Gerrit Niezen wrote:

> What can I use to mill 3D shapes on the CNC mill? Looking at the
> hackspace website
> (http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/CNCRouter), IIRC it can be
> done using HeeksCNC, but it's not supported or developed anymore. Same
> with PyCAM.

Heeks or PyCAM were the best ones we found that could do profiling.

> Oh, and can I mill hardwood (e.g. walnut or cherry) with our CNC mill?
The harder the material the slower you have to go, i think technically
you could do aluminium with it if you have the right bits.

For profiling you will need some round/ball nose end mills, which i do
not think we have any of, all ours are square/flat nose. a few different
sizes if you want to get it done in a reasonable time too.



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