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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 KIND OF ACCESSORIES CAN I MAKE FOR MY LYNXMOTION ROBOTIC ARM?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: What kind of accessories can I make for my Lynxmotion Robotic Arm? Solution: With a few tools and some ingenuity you can make some pretty cool accessories to make your Lynxmotion robot way cool. I have to admit, having a laser really helps! Click on the picture to get many ideas, some...

Example Factories

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: Do you have any sample factories I can show my students to get them excited? Solution: Sure do…. see the links below! Be sure to send us any that you and your students do… we would love to feature them here! .youtube_sc iframe.yp{display:none;}The Adobe Flash Player is required...

Making a Container in Inventor

Written by Chris Hurd.

Step by step, how do you make a container in Inventor? These four videos show you how! Be sure to download the PDF “Cheat Sheets” that go with them. Just click on the link below and a zip file with the four pdfs will be downloaded! Inventor Container Cheat Sheets .youtube_sc iframe.yp{display:none;}The...

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 2,634 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....

This is why I teach….

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

on Monday, 18 May 2015. THANKS THIEN… AND ALL OF MY FORMER STUDENTS LIKE YOU! Over the past 10 years or so, it has become a tradition in my classroom that students bring me a mug back from the college that they attended as a freshman, or their place of employment. I have mugs from community...

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