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Containers: Cool designs & example files!

Question: I am sick of making square or rectangular containers! Do you have any better ideas? Solution: Who says your container has to be a 3″ x 2″ x 2″ box? What do you get when you ask master teachers for some of their best container project designs ever? These! A lot of these...

What’s the Difference Between Climb and Conventional Cutting?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

QUESTION: What is the difference between Climb & Conventional cutting? ANSWER: Milling tools can advance through the material so that the cutting flutes engage the material at maximum thickness and then decreases to zero. This is called Climb Milling. Cutting in the opposite direction causes the...

What is Chip Load?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

QUESTION: What is Chip Load? ANSWER: Chip Load is defined as the thickness of material cutaway by each cutting tooth. See the explanation below in an excerpt from the downloadable powerpoint! CNJ CNC TOOLING BASICS 2,611 total views

What is Stepover?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

QUESTION: What is Stepover? ANSWER: Stepover is defined as the the space between passes of a tool during an operation. The HSM default is 95%, making a very smooth finish on a surface with a ball end mill, but it will sacrafice machine time. In other words, it’ll take forever!...

What is Depth of Cut? How Deep can I Cut on a Single Pass?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

QUESTION: What is Depth of Cut? How deep can I cut on a single pass? ANSWER: Great question! a good rule of thumb is the depth of cut shouldn’t be greater than 1/2 the diameter of the tool; especially on smaller machines. Any more than this and you risk messing up the bearings in your machine....

MAKING ARCS WITH G & M CODE

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: How do I make an arc using G & M codes? Solution: It’s easy! The method shown here shows you how to do it with a known end point and centerpoint. The four minute video below shows you how step by step. Sorry for the poor sound quality, but it’s real time during a lesson...

Example CNC Machining

Written by Chris Hurd.

on Tuesday, 09 December 2014. INDUSTRY HAS LOTS OF EXAMPLES Ever wonder how a “real” CNC machine works in manufacturing? Here are some examples in video form that Jim passed on to me of CNC machines making some very intricate parts. These examples show how you can machine on multiple...

Is There A Better Way To Teach G & M Coding By Hand?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: Initials on a wax block are boring and expensive! Do you have a better way to teach G & M code basics? Solution: Sure do! How about doing initials, or a simple graphic on a wooden yo-yo? That’s right, a yo-yo. Students love it! Special thanks to Chris Lallier...

HOW DO I PUT A NEW TOOL INTO CNCMOTION?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: I get an error in CNCMotion because it can’t find a tool. How do I put tools into CNCmotion? Solution: You need to manually add all the tools in your library the first time you open CNCmotion. This is critical if you want to do multiple tool operations. Watch the video below: .youtube_sc...

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Containers: Cool designs & example files!

What’s the Difference Between Climb and Conventional Cutting?

What is Chip Load?

What is Stepover?

What is Depth of Cut? How Deep can I Cut on a Single Pass?

MAKING ARCS WITH G & M CODE

Example CNC Machining

Is There A Better Way To Teach G & M Coding By Hand?

HOW DO I PUT A NEW TOOL INTO CNCMOTION?

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