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I have a little machine shop CNC mill, operating system is mach3
It was kind of a bonus in a retiring engineers machine shop that I bought everything, we literally took everything in his garage and swept the walls and floors when it was all loaded. The CNC mill was part of the purchase but I bought everything for a large mill, and lathe and a ton of tooling that I am really happy to have.
Im an auto technician not a computer geek by any means. Don’t get me wrong I own and run two auto shops and work with computers daily but I’ve never written any coding. Im probably quite capable of learning enough to perform most of the tasks I forsee in front of me however I’m pretty much ran ragged physically and mentally just keeping my shops in motion so I don’t see me sitting down for hours at a time learning to write codes to spin out a hand full of parts on my mill.
Are there programs for mach3 software that would help me make simple circles and squares. I seem to need precision holes in pieces a lot. Ive done a number of 1000 hole holes and whittled some nice squares with my big manual mill but doing so with a CNC mill sitting on a shelf makes my head hurt.
Reading some posts here a number of people have learned to write the needed programs only to find the effort isn’t worth the results for there needs. I think down the road five years or so I’ll make the time but right now it isn’t there. Thought maybe some one here can either point me in the right direction or guide me in the path of either selling it or boxing it up until time allows me to learn what’s needed to use it.
What’s really amusing to me is my wife has what is called a Cricut it’s basically a CNC crafting mill. She can take an image of something from almost anywhere and in few minutes have one printed and or cut out of almost anything that comes in sheets. Its a $300 crafting toy. It prints, cuts, scores while its basically two deminsional seeing it score paper for a folding edge tells me its operating on a three diminsional format much to the same needs of a CNC mill. We picked out a wicked looking fox from an image on line, ten minutes later she’s got a left and right facing one with three colors of ink dozens of complex highlighted areas scored and the entire fox cut out of decal material for my son. One would think there is a program for a mill to help me cut a circle or squares.
I hope I don’t come off to stupid or lazy looking for the easy way out. Im a realist I’ve got a nice tool without the knowledge to work it and not enough time on my hands to really learn complex coding. If there’s some simple solutions I’d love to try them. Thanks.
It was kind of a bonus in a retiring engineers machine shop that I bought everything, we literally took everything in his garage and swept the walls and floors when it was all loaded. The CNC mill was part of the purchase but I bought everything for a large mill, and lathe and a ton of tooling that I am really happy to have.
Im an auto technician not a computer geek by any means. Don’t get me wrong I own and run two auto shops and work with computers daily but I’ve never written any coding. Im probably quite capable of learning enough to perform most of the tasks I forsee in front of me however I’m pretty much ran ragged physically and mentally just keeping my shops in motion so I don’t see me sitting down for hours at a time learning to write codes to spin out a hand full of parts on my mill.
Are there programs for mach3 software that would help me make simple circles and squares. I seem to need precision holes in pieces a lot. Ive done a number of 1000 hole holes and whittled some nice squares with my big manual mill but doing so with a CNC mill sitting on a shelf makes my head hurt.
Reading some posts here a number of people have learned to write the needed programs only to find the effort isn’t worth the results for there needs. I think down the road five years or so I’ll make the time but right now it isn’t there. Thought maybe some one here can either point me in the right direction or guide me in the path of either selling it or boxing it up until time allows me to learn what’s needed to use it.
What’s really amusing to me is my wife has what is called a Cricut it’s basically a CNC crafting mill. She can take an image of something from almost anywhere and in few minutes have one printed and or cut out of almost anything that comes in sheets. Its a $300 crafting toy. It prints, cuts, scores while its basically two deminsional seeing it score paper for a folding edge tells me its operating on a three diminsional format much to the same needs of a CNC mill. We picked out a wicked looking fox from an image on line, ten minutes later she’s got a left and right facing one with three colors of ink dozens of complex highlighted areas scored and the entire fox cut out of decal material for my son. One would think there is a program for a mill to help me cut a circle or squares.
I hope I don’t come off to stupid or lazy looking for the easy way out. Im a realist I’ve got a nice tool without the knowledge to work it and not enough time on my hands to really learn complex coding. If there’s some simple solutions I’d love to try them. Thanks.
