Cambam pocket start point
It's also really nice to lay them out and look at a few at a time instead of diddling back and forth between windows. It's the only way I can be 100% sure that my work doesn't evaporate into thin air. I've actually gone back to compasses, squares, pencils, and paper.
CAMBAM POCKET START POINT SOFTWARE
I wish that I had access to decent software and a reliable computer. The first few links are some projects mostly using rapid prototyping for my a2b metro, but starting about 6 links down are some machining projects. You can see some of my projects and machining here: Grifftek wrote:Are you looking for help machining parts for your project? do you have any solid models or drawings of what you are trying to make? I really wish that someone would have told me that before I wrote the check but. It will make bike sized parts and I'm a noob on the benchtop cnc stuff for sure but to be totally honest, this machine is better suited to RC, pcb's, plastic, or jewelry than bike parts prototyping. I've seen all kinds of things built on these things and now that I have one, I know that complicated parts or deep cuts take HOURS on a machine this size. The drawback is the tool deflection at depth with such a small bit. I've experimented a lot to try and speed things up and it seems to do the best with the 1/8. It will turn bigger end mills but with a much smaller DOC. It will make a 20 mm deep aluminum part with a 1/8" end mill running at 10ish ipm if you flip the stock over in the vise halfway through the profile and cut the part out from the back. I just looked at the table size and travel and looked at parts others had made and didn't account for fixturing and tool size limitations.and the biggest thing, the hours of machining necessary due to machine size related feed rate limitations. Someday I will find a machine tool supplier that doesn't send out stuff that isn't ready to go.Īs far as the size of the machine, that's a question that I didn't get the correct answer to through research online.
CAMBAM POCKET START POINT MANUAL
My newest war in the quest for prototype has been the 10 degrees of backlash in the rotary table I got for the manual setup. I'm putting another new power supply in one of the old computers so I guess we'll see if I get lucky. If it can even get the cnc to engrave outlines for me to cut out on the manual machine, it should save a ton of time. I spent a few hours on a single part on the manual machine last night and with a little over 70 parts to make, it's looking like a daunting task. I might have to keep the dang thing and just try to use it for a few tasks.