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<div class="">Ive watched a few of these Ny CNC videos, always quality informatiom.</div>
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<div class="">There is a 30 day demo of sprutcam...</div>
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<div class="">No idea what the cost is, hopefully, for now at least, the 30 day demo will help you get the results your looking for.</div>
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<div class="">From: Justin Mitchell <<a href="mailto:justin@swansea.hackspace.org.uk" class="">justin@swansea.hackspace.org.uk</a>> </div>
<div class="">Date:02/06/2015 16:58 (GMT+00:00) </div>
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<div class="">Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] 3D CNC milling? </div>
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<div class="PlainText">On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:46 +0100, Gerrit Niezen wrote:<br class="">
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> What can I use to mill 3D shapes on the CNC mill? Looking at the<br class="">
> hackspace website<br class="">
> (<a href="http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/CNCRouter" class="">http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/Equipment/CNCRouter</a>), IIRC it can be<br class="">
> done using HeeksCNC, but it's not supported or developed anymore. Same<br class="">
> with PyCAM. <br class="">
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Heeks or PyCAM were the best ones we found that could do profiling.<br class="">
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> Oh, and can I mill hardwood (e.g. walnut or cherry) with our CNC mill?<br class="">
The harder the material the slower you have to go, i think technically<br class="">
you could do aluminium with it if you have the right bits.<br class="">
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For profiling you will need some round/ball nose end mills, which i do<br class="">
not think we have any of, all ours are square/flat nose. a few different<br class="">
sizes if you want to get it done in a reasonable time too.<br class="">
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