VEX Programming Tutorials: COMING SOON!
VEX Programming Tutorials: COMING SOON!
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Manufacturing in Victoria BC: Straitline Components
Back in 2014 PLTW sent me to Victoria, British Columbia to be an “Educational Consultant” to a production company that was making videos on how things were made in a high tech bike parts manufacturing facility. the name of the company is Straitline, and they were gracious enough to allow...
WORK UNPLUGGED: VEX ROBOT? IT ONLY WORKS WHEN TETHERED!
Question:
How do I get my robot to work when I unplug my cortex from the computer?
Solution:
Just change the setting you see in the picture here, and you will be all set! After you change this it will ask you to power cycle your cortex. Just turn it off and back on again, and it will run your program...
WHAT SPEEDS AND FEEDS DO I USE ON WAX OR RENSHAPE?
Question:
What speeds and feeds do I use on wax or Renshape in my classroom? (spindle speeds in the attached picture are higher because they are for a machine with a 10K spindle!)
Want to buy Renshape? Get it here: Freeman Supply I use the 450 because it is cheaper!
Solution:
Great question!...
HOW DO I MAKE SURE MY CONTAINER LIP & LID WILL FIT?
Question:
How do I make sure my Container Lip & Lid will fit? The last time we did the container project, the student made them the same size, and the parts did not fit together! I do not want this to happen again!
Solution:
The 3 minute video below will help you make sure that the two parts...
How many teeth or flutes for my CNC tools?
QUESTION:
Does it matter how many teeth or flutes my end mills have?
ANSWER:
Actually it does. A good rule of thumb for the beginner: the harder the material, the more teeth! What’s the difference between teeth and flutes? Teeth do the cutting, flutes bring the cut material away from the part....
EdgeCAM Tutorials
Below are the best of the best in our EdgeCAM video series. This will be the last version of these, as both Jim and I have gone exclusively to HSM in the classroom. These videos are wildly popular on our Youtube channel, and I am sure they will be for a loooong time to come…. EdgeCAM is wildly...
HOW DO I GET RID OF A SNIPE IN VERIFY?
Question:
Every time I verify my code in CNCMotion, a little snipe appears as if the tool is ramping into the part. It doesn’t do this when I run the program… What’s up?
Answer:
Well that’s an easy fix! Watch below!
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CNCMOTION: BAD ARC ERROR
Question:
I get a Bad Arc error when I try to verify a program in CNCmotion. What gives?
Solution:
One of two problems: You have the endpoint or arc center incorrect, OR you need to change the run settings. See the video below.
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