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Hi guys and girls

ive got to cut some large 10mm foamex monday
ive only cut it a few times i need some help with feeds rates and correct tooling
Last time i cut the foamex the swarf re-melted...

Ive just made a sample before reading your post and that was the only area that failed.

The bridging idea is great, with two sections should sort it out. im going to try that now.
im just going...

Im a self taught machinist using alphacam to cut mainly 2d profiles for foam inserts for cases.

i muddle through reasonably successfully but my latest insert is going to cause me headaches!!
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Does anyone have/know of any 3d (3axis) machining tutorials for alphacam,

ive read through the standard alphacam tutorial on 3d machining and didn't find it very useful.
Ive got a basic...

Hi Guys,

i have a AXYZ flatbed router, and have just discovered after trying to cut some text at .15mm that our cnc is not running truly flat. it turns out that the guide rails on one side on the...

Hi Guys,
Im using alphacam to cut some small pieces of 18mm ply, im using support tags so they dont fly about when i cut them out.
im cutting 18mm in 2 cuts and my tag length are 4 mm long 2mm...

Thanks for your reply, i had thought of this but i didn't want to have to re position the parts after bringing them back into the assembly.

SPLIT! of course!!! thanks for your help!

Hi Guys,
im making a cube within sw each side of the cube is a new part. (top down assembly) ive made cut through one of the panels creating a new body of the part.

I want to be able to turn...

Hi guys

we are looking at buying/leasing a foam router.
it doesnt have to be new,

we need a high clearance gantry roughly around 500mm with options for tool changer and a vacuum bed
the...

thats interesting because our suction bed was on and was feeding the fire as all the air was rushing past it!

on friday i managed to set fire to the cnc wasteboard (and my work)

i had set the feed rate for 500 mm/pm instead of 5000 mm/pm i was cutting through 12mm ply i realised how slowly i was cutting...

that's fantastic thanks very much!

hi guys
i have got to qoute a company for some foam they want machined but im not sure if i can do it!!
does anyone know if there is a countersink function in alphacam?

i don't really want to...

Thats a really nice chart................. any chance anyone has a chart like that for wood or foam???? :)

Hi Guys,
we bought a 12mm up spiral cutter This is just a high speed steel. (no Coating)

the cutter works great on our foam and has given us far more flexibility. it has allowed us to speed up...

I started off with pro-desktop back in high-school!
then moved onto pro engineer with its Grundy menu system!
now i use Solidworks and i find it extremely intuitive a great to use. roll on...

Hi We use a spindle speed from about 18,000-24,000 to cut our pelican inserts. Sorry i don't know about your machines.
Wire cutters are good but you are far more flexible with a router.

Hi guys
we have a really old CEM F415 with a ELcon 8000 control unit.
We have recently changed out our drawing machine that we transfer the drawings from. Now we cant translate our .anc/.nc file to...

Like You guys said i try not to but sometimes it cant be helped!
i did something stupid on friday as it happens!
i was machining a wooden object about 200x200mm 50mm high,for myself (my boss was...

Brilliant thanks nick

hi thanks for your reply. We use a plastazote froam with varying density's. die cutting would be good but we make bespoke flight cases so the foam inserts we route are always different So die casting...

Hi Guys, We haven't long bough flatbed cnc router from axyz. we manufacture flight cases, and the router bits we have are great for the wood and plastic we use. but where we are finding real trouble...

Its a Big investment but i use illustrator to create dxfs as well as resizing them.It is a ridiculously powerful tool and can be used for all of your graphic work as well eg. brochures, leaflets pdfs...

I graduated from uni in september. Now im designing flight cases and machining foam cutouts after the workshop staff have gone home. im absolutely loving it!!