philb10
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A little update been working great so far and I am spending time learning how to setup for various types of milling. Learning Vcarve software and coming up with different ideas.
New to CNC's from Massachusetts USA
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philb10
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Got around to doing the change and now I can see the details of the carving thank you. Totally missed that and thought it was just saying what the display was doing. Of course it was but did not think of pressing to switch the mapping lol.
philb10
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Been doing some time learning 3D modeling an the use of my DIY-CNC. It gets easier thanks for the help.
Here is my latest carving on my DIY-CNC ,
Here is my latest carving on my DIY-CNC ,
safeairone
safeairone
Nice job-Superb fundamentals for doing this sort of work. The hard part (in my opinion) is getting the Vectric software figured out. The rest is just the machine doing what you tell it to do.
If you’re surfacing (as opposed to V-carving) a project:
Note that the larger the project AND/OR the smaller the ball nose is on the finishing tool, the finer the detail on the finished part. You’ll be able to clear out narrow valleys between features much more thoroughly with smaller mills or larger projects.
Though you can usually get decent finishing results on larger jobs using a .125” ball nose end mill and a .006” stepover, this tool below can easily fit between narrow features, such as between letters, and does an amazingly detailed finishing job on smaller projects when you use a 5%-7% stepover:
Need more detail still on even smaller size projects? Their W01015 taper mill with the 1/32” (.03125”) will handle it with a .002” step over.
Of course, the smaller the ball nose on the mill, the closer each finishing pass has to be, so there will be more finishing passes and therefore more machining time, but that’s the price that must be paid to get AMAZING detail in projects.
If you’re V-carving (as opposed to surfacing) smaller projects, a “steeper” angled V groove (say 60 degree instead of a 90 degree) cutter and a series of increasingly-small clearing tools (a 1/4” flat endmill, followed by a 3/16” endmill, followed by a 1/8” endmill, for example) will really bring out detail in the project and clear between features such as lettering. You can specify several tools in the roughing toolpath in VCarve. Of course the smallest endmill will have to be small enough to fit between the closest features of the project.
Here’s an example of what I mean (you can skip ahead to the 1:12 mark):
Keep up the good work!
If you’re surfacing (as opposed to V-carving) a project:
Note that the larger the project AND/OR the smaller the ball nose is on the finishing tool, the finer the detail on the finished part. You’ll be able to clear out narrow valleys between features much more thoroughly with smaller mills or larger projects.
Though you can usually get decent finishing results on larger jobs using a .125” ball nose end mill and a .006” stepover, this tool below can easily fit between narrow features, such as between letters, and does an amazingly detailed finishing job on smaller projects when you use a 5%-7% stepover:
Need more detail still on even smaller size projects? Their W01015 taper mill with the 1/32” (.03125”) will handle it with a .002” step over.
Of course, the smaller the ball nose on the mill, the closer each finishing pass has to be, so there will be more finishing passes and therefore more machining time, but that’s the price that must be paid to get AMAZING detail in projects.
If you’re V-carving (as opposed to surfacing) smaller projects, a “steeper” angled V groove (say 60 degree instead of a 90 degree) cutter and a series of increasingly-small clearing tools (a 1/4” flat endmill, followed by a 3/16” endmill, followed by a 1/8” endmill, for example) will really bring out detail in the project and clear between features such as lettering. You can specify several tools in the roughing toolpath in VCarve. Of course the smallest endmill will have to be small enough to fit between the closest features of the project.
Here’s an example of what I mean (you can skip ahead to the 1:12 mark):
Keep up the good work!
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safeairone
safeairone
Let me correct that…I had another look at those tools on Amazon; For whatever reason, those particular tools have the RADIUS of their ball nose listed, not the DIAMETER like every other ball nose end mill on the planet does, so the second one shown (1/32” RADIUS-AKA: 1/16” DIAMETER) will give superb finishing results on surfacing projects the size of the ones you’re doing, though you might possibly get acceptable results with the 1st one with a 5%-7% stepover.
philb10
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Have not been here in a while had other work to attend to useful information thank you safeairone. Been building a website to display some of my work running it on my own home servers huge pain in the backside.
Anyways here is my site.
www.creativetechmind.com
Anyways here is my site.
The future Is waiting!
www.creativetechmind.com