milling

[Matt_mg]

I did C&C programmming once... and it is tough when you do it for the first time it was a few years ago in high school with the cheapest possible plastic milling C&C machine...

just like that how much can those drawing to mill programs can cost? can't be THAT prohibitive...

[magmonkey]

mastercam cost $12000 a couple years ago When one of the shops I was working for purchased it

I have done alot of programing on cnc machines (both G&m code and with cam software) and it is ALOT more work than just draw it and go

and just wait we are working twors are own milling center

[Catch22]

I was just jokin about being able to draw a design and have the machine make it. Didn't think you guys would take me seriously.

[robertjuric]

Hey guys, this is a little bit off topic, but I was watching TV the other day, and they were going over the Tech of an F1 race car.

They had this cool machine, that used lazers and some liquid, and somehow made a solid part out of the liquid by using the lazers.

Does anyone know anything about this machine?? I just thought itd be kinda cool to know.

[Matt_mg]

Sounds like a laser engraving machine only bigger?

I'm probly wrong but hey that means that now they can do that stuff we saw in James Bond years ago!

[billybob_81067]

I've heard about it..

I've heard about said machine... it's like a vat of goo that hardens when exposed to the lasers, so wherever the lasers hit it it turns into a plastic. Apparently this machine is for making prototype parts only as the material is not very strong.

[magmonkey]

that is called stereo lithography

it is a form of rapid prototyping

I haven't gotten a chance to deal with that other than watching a demo where they copied a carburator that the parts all worked ( butterflies would open threads could be turned)and they made it all in one piece ..... that makes my head hurt thinking about it

[TheJester]

it's a vat ot resin, and when the laser comes into contact with the resin it changes the state from liquid to solid. like mag monkey said, it's a form of rapid prototyping, it's to basicly instantly get a solid part as it would look in real life. don't know if it would have any functionablity cause i'm not sure on how strong the stuff is, but it is cool, and you can at least do some pre-lim testing i'm sure on it.

[ShooterJM]

Couple things.

Tysonmachado does his work with a dremal I believe. I'll post pics of the stuff he's done for me.


Also, I might be mistaken, but can't you get endmill attachments for drill presses?

[Cristobal]

Originally posted by ShooterJM
Also, I might be mistaken, but can't you get endmill attachments for drill presses?

I've never seen a collet attatchment for a drill press, thought that doesn't mean they don't exist. But even so, your standard drill press simply isn't made to make horizontal cuts -- just plunges up and down. Trying to use one like a milling machine sounds like a good way to get hurt/break something.

[Statik7]

[bjjb99]

Originally posted by Cristobal


I've never seen a collet attatchment for a drill press, thought that doesn't mean they don't exist. But even so, your standard drill press simply isn't made to make horizontal cuts -- just plunges up and down. Trying to use one like a milling machine sounds like a good way to get hurt/break something.

Exactly. The bearings in a drill press are meant to handle loads which are in line with the drill axis. A mill can handle those loads as well as ones perpendicular to the quill's axis. You might get a couple of light cuts done with a drill press pretending to be a mill, but you will ultimately damage its bearings and have to replace the drill press.

Right tool for the right job, and all that jazz...

BJJB

[shinobidice]

Originally posted by TheJester
it's a vat ot resin, and when the laser comes into contact with the resin it changes the state from liquid to solid. like mag monkey said, it's a form of rapid prototyping, it's to basicly instantly get a solid part as it would look in real life. don't know if it would have any functionablity cause i'm not sure on how strong the stuff is, but it is cool, and you can at least do some pre-lim testing i'm sure on it.

so you could make plastic models of things for instance like cars and such? maybe not full size, but wouldnt you want an exact copy of your car to show proof that that idiot really did dent your door in exactly the same on both sides (its late im thinking up dumb stuff.. ignore me lol)

[68magOwner]

billy bob, it was a ZXS-600e. Key word WAS lol, now it is pure beast, i would of been better off buying a block of plastic and some internals, because there is nothin but the internals left of the poor 600e (and im planning on starting making modifications to the internals too ) (event though there are no upgrades for that marker )

[jimmyjobob]

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a dremel and patience..

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62778