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Cutting and milling...
Hello everybody,
I was wondering how you guys go about milling parts from aluminium and cutting carbon fiber sheets. I read previous posts about this, but it's still unclear to me, sorry Essentially I would like to know a little more about the following: - do you use industrial grade CNC machines or hobbyist (CNC or not) mills? - do you use the CNC mills also to cut the carbon fibre sheets? - what CAD/CAM software? A little help would be really appreciated, as I would like to produce some prototype parts, and I am trying to investigate how expensive it would be to purchase the necessary machinery... Thanks!! Frio |
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cheaper for carbon fibre to ask hansell composites or fibre lyte who will work from drawings and do one off at a good price
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i use:
rhino cad for 2d/3d drawings rhino cam for 3d toolpaths and gcode export sheetcam for toolpaths in 2d drawings and gcode export mach3 control software for milling machine tormach cnc 4 axis milling machine as mark says tho fibre-lyte can do the carbon for you if you have a dxf drawing. |
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Thank you guys,
these are good tips. I am aware of fibre-lyte for the carbon parts, and I am certainly going to use them, but I was wondering what would be a fully independent setup, as even a good company like fibre-lyte cannot cut carbon and send it back to you minutes after the drawing is finished... Frio |
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depends what your budget is
the tormach setup is around £6k by the time its come into the country with all the shipping duties etc...but to buy a similair machine over here would be £10 upwards. you can get a basic setup off ebay for 2-3k which will do small modelling jobs. and cutting carbon..carbon eats milling bits like a fat kid eats cakes... |
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Very interesting, I guess most people access already existing machines rather than purchasing mills for the purpose of hobby then...
What are similar machines in Europe and why not a tormach then? Cheers, Frio |
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