Test milling frame-vertex_6off in pine on a Sherline CNC mill. The target machine is a nearby much-faster gantry router with a large capacity. The final material will be something that is more stable than Pine.
CAD: Alibre Design Pro Evaluation. I imported the Mendel Solid Edge files and reworked frame-vertex_6off to improve machinability.
CAM: Vectric Cut2D
CNC control: EMC2
Drives: Geckodrive G201
Part 2 shows how I drill the angled holes.
Whew, aggressive milling. :) Were the little connecting tabs generated automatically in CAM? Thanks for sharing the video!
vlmarshall 2 years ago
Cut2D created the tabs automatically; I just had to click where I wanted each tab to be.
tbfleming 2 years ago