[AR15DCM]

Hello,

Just found the board and was wondering if there were any members in the Northeast/North Central GA area. I am about 50 miles N.E. of Atlanta and am just gaining interest in CNC. I was wondering if there were any CNC Usergroups around this area too?

I have a Milling Machine but have yet to put any CNC on it. My real interest is to build a CNC router to make my guitar bodies.

[Kenny Duval]

I'm in Cumming.GA. Others taught me stuff I'll be glad to return the favor to someone else.

[AR15DCM]

Hi Kenny,

What have you built lately? Or, are you still working on something?

[Kenny Duval]

I have a project going modifying some parts for a 30 year old motorcycle for a fellow racer. This is the part I was modifying last weekend.



I've got some stuff drawn up that I need to do tool paths for and then cut. Nothing pressing just projects for myself.

[AR15DCM]

Oh cool! That sounds like a challenging, yet fun project. You are obviously light years ahead of where I am at the moment.

I spent last night tweaking SketchUp and getting all of the extensions that I thought might be relevant for 3d Routing. I got the "Plot GCode" extension as well as various import export to do Solid Works, DWF, and others. Here is a screenshot of my extension panel it it makes any sense...

http://maxcdn.cnczone.com/images/attach/png.gif

[Kenny Duval]

I've got about 20 minutes more experience. I am using Fusion 360 for all my stuff. I'm familiar of Sketch Up but have not used much.

[AR15DCM]

Yeah I dont have Fusion, but I do have AutoCAD as well ! I was just picking whatever I could find out there... I have only seen the guitars posted in the sketchup format and have not gotten around to AutoCAD yet. My desk with that computer is a little hard to get to with all of the guitar parts and junk on it right now LOL. I need to get Fusion360 too.. It is much nicer for people who are :"builders" or "makers".