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Hello, New to machining and struggling with a chamfer on a design. Dimensions in mm as the stepcraft can only handle mm. I'm machining a test piece on Al 2024-T3 0.090" sheet metal to the below design. I'm having trouble with getting the chamfer right. Using Fusion. I've tried the following Ops and setup: * T1-3mm single flute endmill, T2-2mm Ball nose, T3-4mm Ball nose * Stock is a 0.090" sheet 1/ T1, Bore the holes out 2/ T1, Adaptive clear 3/ T2 or T3, Scallop for the chamfer with a 0.1mm stepover 4/ T1, 2D contour cut out the outline For Op 3, I've tried various configurations with T2 and ..read more

4mm carbide endmill broken while I was doing circular interpolation (bore in Fusion) the material is Stainless steel 304. The hole was for M5 thread but now since it’s messed up, I will go for M6 with 5.3 drill hole. Im thinking about slowy jog pecking with another sacrificial 4mm carbide. Or 5mm? Will that work? Thanks. submitted by /u/koon5666 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Probably none of this is news for people who work in a CNC shop, but I enjoyed Wymwood's walk though of their wood working shop. The hydraulic tool chuck was news to me ( as a non-pro). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9157Z41kdYE submitted by /u/TriSherpa [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Before machining your part, what are some steps and or thought process on how you’ll complete it? Do some of you have a step by step of is it on the fly? submitted by /u/Growkitz [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Mach 4 Help. Complete noob here. Just bought a secondhand CNC and running into to issues. I had to do a ton of learning and diagnostic at first to even get it running. I bought it as “non-working”. It was just the ESS wasn’t communicating properly. It ran for a while and now it’s not doing so hot. See the log report and I’m assuming all of that is not good. It currently stutters pretty bad. Details: Mach 4 Hobby (paid version) Ethernet Smoothstepper Huanyang inverter Hyria spindle Openbuilds Workbee CNC 1500x1500 I’m sure I’m missing information. I’ve never quite figure out the spindle contr ..read more

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I'm looking for a program for CNC machines that will design cabinets when given the specifications. I don't even know if this exists I'm just doing some research trying to help some people. Hopefully you all can give me a place to start or look. submitted by /u/HoldingMender91 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hi I had gotten a bad plasma cutter. The CNC connection port would randomly trigger the plasma cutter on and off. I sent it back and got a new one. This one doesn't have port issues but the cuts are terrible. Is this a problem with the plasma cutter or is it something that can be tuned. The picture with multiple lines is the new plasma cutter. I tried different amps. Travel speed and air but all look squiggly to me. The other 2 pictures are of the old plasma I returned. I have not find tuned this as I just built it and have been doing lots of cuts to setup height and speed. I think I have tha ..read more

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