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  1. #1
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    AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    I recently purchased me my second Taig mill this time it will be a CNC machine. My first project will be trying to mill out the fire control pocket on a couple of AR lower receivers. I am needing some help as I've had someone make for me in a CAD drawing (I "think" I said that right) the shape of the fire control pocket. However when I put it into CamBam it looks as if the drawing is in an angled / slanted position rather than being flat. I'd like to know if once I generate Gcode if the mill will try to machine the shape in an angled / slated position rather than how it should originally be (flat). Here below is a screen-shot I took with the drawing opened in CamBam.


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    Re: AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    To me it looks like your x,y are not correct. I have not used cam bam so I can't be positive. I usually set top corner of project to 0,0

    Can you post file and I'll see what it looks like in a different program

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    Re: AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    How do I post file ? I can email it in an attachment, the file is in a DXF extention. I have it in other file ext's. but CamBam will only open the DXF version of the file.

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    Re: AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    Drop box works good for things like that and then you can just post link to file



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    Re: AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    I don't how to use a drop down box unless you are referring to me uploading the file to a file host and then pasting the link don't know where to upload. I could email it to you if you'd prefer.

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    Re: AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    You could email it to me and i could post it...

    Nice job on the modeling! I have a friend that was looking for the pocket model as well, looks like he did a good job on it.

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    Re: AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    Quote Originally Posted by kb0nly View Post
    You could email it to me and i could post it...

    Nice job on the modeling! I have a friend that was looking for the pocket model as well, looks like he did a good job on it.
    Attachment 250960

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    Re: AR Fire Control Pocket Milling - Need Help Please

    Cool, will email it off to my buddy that was looking for it, saves me the work of drawing it up.

    Thanks!

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