07 | Computer-Controlled Machining

Lecture

Review

Weekly assignments

Group Assignment

1. Complete your lab’s safety training
2. Test runout, alignment, speeds, feeds, and toolpaths for your machine
3. Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned

Individual Assignments

1. Make (design+mill+assemble) something big

Have you?

• Linked to the group assignment page
• Documented how you designed your object (something big)
• Documented how you made your CAM-toolpath
• Documented how you made something BIG (setting up the machine, using fixings, testing joints, adjusting feeds and speeds, depth of cut etc.)
• Described problems and how you fixed them
• Included your design files and ‘hero shot’ photos of final object

Recontech 1312

The CNC at Aalto Fab Lab is Recontech 1312. Kris has made a nice introduction video about it.