[Swansea Hackspace] 3D CNC milling?

[Graham Owens]

Hardwoods done on the CNC at the hackspace, OAK and something that looks
like mahogany (but probably isnt) but deffo hardwoods

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On 3 June 2015 at 13:41, Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:

> I sourced mine from Amazon, from china, a bit slow
>
> On 3 June 2015 at 12:39, Tim Clark <eclipse at sucs.org> wrote:
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>>  On 03/06/2015 12:28, Gerrit Niezen wrote:
>>
>> Dave: Thanks for the link to the Youtube videos, they’re now on my
>> to-watch list. I should probably have mentioned that I’m specifically
>> looking for decent open-source software - for closed-source stuff I’d
>> probably use Fusion 360.
>>
>> I came across a different video from them a few days ago and did similar.
>> PyCAM is supposed to offer that level of features, but is very slow and
>> crashey when you want to be that fancy, it uses ungodly amounts of ram.
>>
>>  Tim/Justin: I tried generating the toolpaths using the demo model
>> loaded on PyCAM - it took 6 hours on my Ubuntu box (but at least didn’t
>> crash). I wish Heeks had a better UI.
>>
>> The Heeks UI really is its downfall, I have generated 3D gcode in Heeks
>> before though so I can show you how to do it if you want. The other
>> disadvantage is is that it doesn't do multi passes, although you can to a
>> certain extend get similar results with a bit of work and setting abusing.
>>
>>
>>  Suggestions for buying end mills - eBay?
>>
>> My 6mm, 1mm and 0.5mm ones came from aliexpress
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
>>    On 2 Jun 2015, at 20:02, David Davies-Day <djdavies83 at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   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.
>>
>>
>>
>>  No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
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>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
>> Date:02/06/2015 16:58 (GMT+00:00)
>> To: hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] 3D CNC milling?
>>
>>  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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