I Made a Box, Woo Hoo!

My new, and first ever, CNC has been idle while I worked on another project. I decided to take my first baby step.

Modeled and manufactured in Fusion 360.

The CAM was the challenging part. I kept decreasing the model complexity until I had something that simulated correctly with my limited understanding of CAM.

I broke my only roughing end mill when I cut into the hardened steel lag bolt that was holding the stock down. More bits on order.

I used an old wood router bit on this one. It worked, sort of. Lots of out of tolerance cuts and burned stock. Even so, I was like a kid on Christmas morning watching it cut.

Back when I assembled my MPCNC I milled the V1 logo gCode Ryan posted. It came out nice so I know the machine can cut wood much more accurately than this.

Iā€™m going to dig into the gCode for the V1 logo to see what speeds and steps Ryan used. That and more time at YTU (YouTube University) should do it.

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Lightly toasted is a nice effect. You can tell people you did that on purpose. By using the cutting bit you saved a step with the torch.

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