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lol oh ok thanks kdonkey....what a nice guy.

What no cyclematic lathe forum?

We got one of these lathes last year and love it......

CTL-618e Model Toolroom Lathes of Cyclematic Lathes Machinery Company

Please make a category for this...

Sounds like a low grade aluminum, like said earlier I'd make sure always to be using 7075 aircraft grade aluminum....should make a difference....or at lease 6061.

And because you have no...

Another thing that might help save you some time is make sure when your finding all your geometry that you click the 2D button so everything is on one plane. If you don't click the 2D buttom when...

Did you get this figured out?

Could it possibly be the layer that the wire profile is on, isn't active...??

Very well put. The need for tolerance's, hole call outs,material specs, surface finish, etc are all things that will be required to quote your job properly, not to mention to engineer it properly.
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Once you get your speeds and feeds cutting the way you want, just climb mill the outside of the pocket with a light finish pass, and this will give you a nice finish.

But like already stated, the...

Awesome work, thanks for sharing!

I love the 5th picture down..........is that wood inlay around the sound hole??.......love the look of that.

Cheers

"Plate" is always over sized.......so that you can machine to the actual thickness........Where "stock" could actually be under or exactly the thickness ordered.

Like said earlier, the part you...

If your close, then why not just manually edit the approach in the nc code so it doesn't crash into the side wall?

I would machine this part by mounting it to a plate using the holes that are needed on the part.

Make a plate to hold it so you can do the outside contour.

Can use smaller holes for mounting...

Profiling is exactly what you want to use.........just only for the 4mm slot area's.....then rough the bigger area's.....same cutter two cyles.

Use some containment lines to minimize the amount...

Most suppliers will probably only sell you 4x8 sheets like previously stated.......however if you just walk into any local machine shop and tell them your just a hobby machinist and not there...

Try this site.

CNC Programming Codes & Tutorials - Helman CNC

Well with a 3/8 cutter your finish cuts for the inner circle can be at X.9375 Y1.5 start and finish point for outer circle, and finish pass on the middle island can start and finish at X1.0625 Y...

2K...wow, i was going to suggest you get a manual mill with millpower making it have cnc capabilities but also allowing a manual mill which you would want......but that'd be close to 30K new or i'm...

Exactly, easiest way, just use a wire frame line from the profile of the part you want to profile, and then trim the line to where you want to start and end the path.

I am also not familiar with...

I like you to tell me more of what exactly your trying to achieve here....with regards to what your requirements are for your plastic molded parts?

Like what type of tolerances does your finished...

I keep forgetting to post an example....i'll try to remember when at work.

All i've been doing is deleting all the information edgecam puts into the code at the beginining of the code and it...

Just set one of your offsets as the x and y zero's for this particular setup, and then call that offset in your program or set the machine to be in the right offset and away you go.

This can be...

If i delete all the info that edgecam puts in, like part name, date, time, etc it works just fine.

Something to do with that......weird cause it's only sometimes it won't read that stuff....90% of...

Check your step over % in any roughing cycle's, if it's low that could cause a lot of extra lines.

How complex is the part?

Hello,

Every once in a while my new haas office mill will give me an error code 241 "invalid code".

I use edgecam 100% of the time to do all my programming, but i can't figure out why every so...