Open1215 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 THANK YOU! That was a great clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinj308 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 If you wanted the walls of the cuts to be sloped back then don't square the block when your done. Cut a matching slope in soft jaws for the slide to sit in and machine away. That might be cool looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinj308 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 THANK YOU! That was a great clip. Hope it helps! If you end up making it happen I'd love to see it, I don't have time in hobby to do list to try it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Open1215 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 Will do! At the moment I'm just doing CAD modeling. I hope to have my machine up and running by the end of the holiday season. The delays are driving me absolutely crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boy Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Bobcad was designed to work in 2d. They might try to tell you it can do 3d but it isn't effective at all. It is most used in industry for wood working. Try Hypermill software if you can get a demo download. It will make short work out of your project........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskinsler83 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 So would a Radeon R9 380 card be ok I have looked at NVidia AUSU Turbo 970 but good lord I'm Just looking to tinker and learn things which programs do you all use the most and does the computer actually running the PCNC have to be the same set up with the cards and such or does a cheap black Friday laptop work for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmiller Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I have a not so cheap Toshiba laptop. It runs Autodesk inventor 2014. It freezes up and dies when I try to run Fusion 360. I have talked with a few friends, and I am going to take their advise and build a computer. This should be fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinj308 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 .... the computer actually running the PCNC have to be the same set up with the cards and such or does a cheap black Friday laptop work for that If you buy a Tormach PCNC it comes with the computer to run the mill. That computer won't be usable for anything else really, it's set up just for the mill. That's a good thing in my opinion. Keeps the mill unaffected by whatever else our pc's have going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinj308 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I have a not so cheap Toshiba laptop. It runs Autodesk inventor 2014. It freezes up and dies when I try to run Fusion 360. I have talked with a few friends, and I am going to take their advise and build a computer. This should be fun! It is fun! I used http://www.tomshardware.com/a lot to figure out what was what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinj308 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I looked up my desktop from Dell and this the graphics card I have AMD Radeon HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 this is the CPU Processor: Intel Core 3rd Gen i5-3450 Processor (3.10 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.50 GHz) It was a scratch and dent deal, there are some killer deals if you watch the website. Runs F360 fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmiller Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Cool, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskinsler83 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I am looking at the ibuypower computers. I don't game but right now they have good deals on decent cpu upgrades and memory and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amish_rabbi Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 (edited) I wouldnt run the mill off a laptop. But you dont need a very high powered computer to run a cnc machine. I would 100% tell you to use a SSD in the mill computer.I model/program on an alienware x51, 8 gigs of ram, i7 and 2 gig geforce something. Going to go to 16 gigs of ram soon but other thab that it works great. Thats significantly better than my computer at work for modelling and it works fine day in and day out. Edit: GTX 670 is what my computer has, finally got home to look it up Edited November 27, 2015 by amish_rabbi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskinsler83 Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Yall kill a guys hope for a budget lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amish_rabbi Posted November 27, 2015 Share Posted November 27, 2015 seriously, my computer at work is an old i5 with an older nvidia quadro, probably the k420. only 8 gigs of ram as well. It works but its probably the bare minimum I don't know about fusion 360 but solidworks is only single core, so more core speed is better than more cores of a lower speed. Not sure just how 360 uses a computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmiller Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 I am certain I did a bunch of stuff wrong, but this is my first test cut using the conversational software in my mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinj308 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amish_rabbi Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 more than I ever do with conversational. Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolguy Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 (edited) Not bad for a first cut. It's a smart idea to use wood for test cuts if you're not sure exactly what's going to happen. In case of a crash that really cuts down on the amount of damage done. I use conversational for everything. Been doing it that way since 2001. Edited December 1, 2015 by Toolguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip3 Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 Depending on your goals/parts you would like to design, inventor and solid works may be over kill. I have used and use both professionally as well as pro e. For quick and dirty work I am a fan of Rhino. It is cheap and works well for single parts and small asy's. It is not parametric but depending on what you are doing and your modeling techniques that may not really matter. Visual Mill is a simple cam package that works with it and is offered as plug in to run inside the Rhino environment. They used to have a basic free version as well. It is not as nice as master cam etc but it will get basic 3 axis jobs done. Both will run well on basic basic computers and the companies that produce the software are heck of a lot easier to deal with than autodesk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amish_rabbi Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Had some stock pull out today... I couldnt clamp it very tight because it wasnt super square and when i clamped it tight it would bend (that was yesterdays issue) anyways, tried it and it pulled out on the first rough. Not a big deal, i stripped the vice off my mill and am just going to clamp it to the table like its a router. Bit more waste that way with the clamps but it will work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amish_rabbi Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Apparently the picture didnt want to upload on my last post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolguy Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 (edited) Make sure and clamp on top of some waste material so you don't cut into the mill table. Plywood, particle board and tempered hardboard are all suitable underlayments. I prefer the tempered hardboard as it doesn't squish down under clamps and is very consistent in thickness. Edited December 2, 2015 by Toolguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amish_rabbi Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Yea i was think some mdf, im only cutting 3/4 of the way through but still want that spoil board lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmiller Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) I got to take an hour to play with my mill today. I used conversational programming to make a QD socket. I cut one on my manual mill a few weeks ago, I messed around for about half an hour cutting it. Granted, it was the first one I ever cut in an actual part, I was extra careful. After I programmed the mill, it took less than a minute with my manual tool changes. I cut it in a block of wood tonight, I am going to try aluminum tomorrow. Edited December 13, 2015 by bmiller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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