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CNC Milled Sample

Steph and I put our heads together and came up with (what we thought was) a simple design to test out the CNC machine. Our first mistake was not accounting for the size of the drill bit in relation to the intricate design we had created. So, it was back to the drawing board to refine and simplify the design. I drew 'tab's into the design, not realising that Fusion 360 already had that feature built into it. Back to the drawing board again! With my tabs: Without tabs: Tab setup in Fusion 360 shown during 'Simulate': Then when it came time to finalise the setup in Fusion 360, we soon realised that the 3D setup on it's own was not going to work. Nothing we did was working when we ran the simulation. So, after much trial and error, we ended up with a combination setup using 2D and 3D pocket clearing as well as well as 2D contour setups. When we discovered that there was a smaller drill bit available, we decided to re-do our setup one more time in ...