The assembly is mounted in the vise at the mill with a stop on the fixed jaw. First, I use some spray adhesive to attach it along with a small clamp. Since there are 3 1/4" holes, my plan is to attach the stock to a base with screws. Essentially all the parts in colibri are designed to be cut completely through sheet stock, so some means of holding it must be conceived for each. The drawing tell me the part will fit inside a 4x4" square of aluminum, and it's specified as 3/8" thick. To check before cutting metal, I emulate with CutViewer. Then there are roughing and finishing ops for the opening in the center, and finally a profile op on the outer boundary. The first 5 are for drilling the various holes. In this case there are 9 operations as shown in the tree image to the left of the screen.
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The process to make this part has a number of steps, of which the first is to open its DXF file in CamBam and specify the machining operations to be applied: In this picture of the assembly it's the dark grey. Today's part is called the 'tail mount right', or the support part of the tail mechanism on the bird's right hand side. The parts for colibri are almost all curved in some manner, so other than round spacers I expect most of the machining here will be done via CNC.
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I use GWizard for feed and speed calculations.įor model engines, there's typically many parts that get made on the manual mill. Normally I use conservative feeds and speeds, but I don't want to overdo it and spend hours watching a part being machined. On the fan part, I spend a good while tweaking the settings in CamBam to reduce the machine time. Doing so can detect unintended consequences, and also shows how long the machining will take. I typically will simulate parts using Cutviewer Mill software.
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PathPilot runs the same code as Mach3 without modification. I've been using CamBam for g-code generation since the beginning. The user interface with PathPilot is a bit better as well requiring fewer mouse clicks for zeroing parts. Now I could go a lot higher, but I'm just using 100 for now. Previously the maximum rapids were 75 inches per minute. Now I'm running Tormach's PathPilot control program that eliminates the parallel port and moves much of the low level operations from the CPU to a Mesa I/O board. Up until recently the control was Mach3 using the parallel printer port to communicate with the breakout board. It has a 3HP spindle with a maximum speed of 4000 RPM and used R8 collets. My mill is a Novakon NM200 that I purchased in 2010. Now I am regenerating the individual DXFs for fabrication from SW. I extracted each part individually and used it to generate a Solidworks model. The original DXF files for the colibri consist of one large layout for each of the 4 thicknesses of plywood.