Computer-Controlled Machining

Updated for 2025 evaluation standards!

• Group assignment:

  • Complete your lab's safety training
  • Test runout, alignment, fixturing, speeds, feeds, materials and toolpaths for your machine
  • Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned

• Individual project

  • Make (design+mill+assemble) something big

Learning outcomes

• Demonstrate 2D design development for CNC milling production
• Describe workflows for CNC milling production

Have you answered these questions?

• 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' of your final product

FAQ

How big is big?

Answer: It should be roughly one meter in at least one dimension. It should be big enough to show you understand the basic techniques of safe CNC machining.

Does it have to be wood or wood products?

Answer: No. But the lab is only responsible for providing you with a full size wood board (4x8 ft).

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