[Hirudin]

I'm going to build an enclosure for my Taig mill

Attached to this post are a few renders of the design. The mill model is pretty crude, but it's representative of the real thing.

The outside dimensions are 26.5" x 51.5" x 35"

Features

• Made with aluminum extrusions (like 80/20 but from another company: Futura Industries)
• Vertical sliding door in the front (very similar to the one on www.nyccnc.com)
• Polycarbonate windows (the whole thing uses a whole 4' x 8' sheet)
• Lots of room inside (I hope)
• Open bottom for coolant collection
• Column reinforcing beam (middle beam in the back, I wonder how much this'll help)
• Doesn't use/need any expensive brackets (the ends of most of the extrusions are tapped and will be bolted directly to the extrusions they're butted up against)

Would anyone like me to make up a cut list? It has about 480" of 1" x 2" extrusions, 115" of 1" x 1" etrusions, and a whole 4' x 8' sheet of polycarbonate. My total cost is around $600, but I'm having all the extrusions cut and tapped by Futura, which is about $100 of the cost.

[Hirudin]

A quick update...
My extrusions came in (well most of them anyway). I've loosely put them together, just to make sure everything fit. I also stuck a few of the polycarbonate windows in. Everything looks good so far.

The sliding door needed a couple pieces that Futura doesn't offer. I ordered them from the 80/20 garage sale, but I was gone when FedEx came to deliver them.

Sorry for the bad angle of the picture, it's a little crowded in that room.

[TOC Admin]

I also just Finished my Enclosure with sliding door...

I went a tad wider to help with the slider, Still have to finish my Coolant pan

[fretsman]

Those both are looking fantastic -

Hirudin, how did you do your 3D sketch?

Dave

[Anokiernan]

Those both are looking fantastic -

Hirudin, how did you do your 3D sketch?

Dave

I know Futura has a free downloadable add-in to Solidworks which contains all of their parts and prices.

[fretsman]

I know Futura has a free downloadable add-in to Solidworks which contains all of their parts and prices.

Ah, interesting, I'll have a look-

Dave

[Hirudin]

...
Hirudin, how did you do your 3D sketch?
...

I made it in Rhino. I pretty much just made the outlines of the extrusions and... uh... extruded them.

I attached a Rhino (.3dm) file that has the few profiles that I've made so far. They're real easy to edit if you need some other size.

[fretsman]

Ah, thank you, I don't have Rhino but thanks for offering the files.

It looks great-

Dave