CNC thread

[donnylad]

don't mind turning a few up on my lathe FOC but its not a CNC so aint doing 200 haha

edit: don't have the ali though, but I do have silversteel and possibly stainless.

 

[Krarl]

I couldn't ask for it to be FOC, that's too kind of an offer mate

I'd be more than happy if you could turn me 4 of them out of something capable of mounting brake calipers 🤣

 

[Paulie031]

If you're stuck Kyle I'll have a look in work on Monday to see what sheet metals we have ( not a great deal) I could water jet them out then 🙂

 

[Andy_con]

dont have a lathe, but could easily do some on the cnc mill if you get stuck.

jut wont be as accurate as a lathe

 

[Andy_con]

A single phase hass, rare as fook

HAAS TM2P CNC Milling Machine VMC Single Phase | eBay

Haas TM2P CNC Mill. 10 Tool changer. 1PH 240V Single Phase. Coolant pump. 6000 RPM Spindle. 4th Axis interface.

www.ebay.co.uk

So so so so badly want this, never seen a datron neo on ebay before

cnc milling machines used | eBay

6 Year old machine but in good working condition. You can visit and see the machine.

www.ebay.co.uk

 

[Flat Eric]

I couldn't ask for it to be FOC, that's too kind of an offer mate

I'd be more than happy if you could turn me 4 of them out of something capable of mounting brake calipers 🤣

I literally spent the other week in college turning s**t on the lathes. I'd have done these for you no bother as well. Instead I was making trolley coins 🤣🤣

 

[Flat Eric]

Also not 100% relatable but still sort of related to this thread.

Made a 2x4 lego brick on the milling machine a few weeks ago.

Really enjoyed it.
Should've done it with Ally though as it took forever milling the steel

 

[donnylad]

I couldn't ask for it to be FOC, that's too kind of an offer mate

I'd be more than happy if you could turn me 4 of them out of something capable of mounting brake calipers 🤣

These should work? Made in ally, 30od 12id 6mm thick about .1 tolerance, they’re not perfect but I don’t normally work with ally and can’t use the magnetic table to grind them up.
You can collect them from Rotherham or Penistone or I can post em for you pal.

 

[Krarl]

These should work? Made in ally, 30od 12id 6mm thick about .1 tolerance, they’re not perfect but I don’t normally work with ally and can’t use the magnetic table to grind them up.
You can collect them from Rotherham or Penistone or I can post em for you pal.

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That's mega, drop me a pm and I'll give em a whirl mate

Really appreciate it

 

[Louis]

Get them painted so they don't corrode on the edges 😙

 

[Andy_con]

Also not 100% relatable but still sort of related to this thread.

Made a 2x4 lego brick on the milling machine a few weeks ago.

Really enjoyed it.
Should've done it with Ally though as it took forever milling the steel View attachment 1710349View attachment 1710350View attachment 1710351View attachment 1710352View attachment 1710353View attachment 1710354View attachment 1710355View attachment 1710356

Looks ace but why?

 

[Andy_con]

I just did a small project, I wanted to mount a camera on a pole

Attachments not working 🤷

 

[Flat Eric]

Looks ace but why?

We had free reign on the milling machines for a week at college. Never worked on one before.
I like lego and thought I'd make a brick. Had to scale it up from the drawing so the tools would fit around the studs

Was a good little project though for a few days work

 

[Andy_con]

a camera mount on a pole

a quick bead blast

threaded camera screw from ebay

cap on

fitted into the tube perfectly

mounting with dji pocket 3

 

[Krarl]

I'd just like to say a massive thankyou to @Paulie031 and @donnylad. I owe you both!

Apologies if you didn't want me posting in here showing your workmanship🤣

I got the spacers last week and gave them all a measure up with my cheapie verniers and matched them up into the best possible pairs. To give a bit of background as I was quite vague beforehand, they're a caliper spacer which needed to have a larger OD just to spread the load a bit better

Tested them all at the end of last week and confirmed they're all spot on. I still need to test them with some spacers bolted to the disc to make sure there's zero runout in the disc and it's bolted to the spare hub nice and tight, measured everything up with the feeler gauges

I'll give some more feedback after tomorrow, I'm gonna test them again after work

 

[Andy_con]

made an exhaust pipe bracket for my diesel heater

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

I'd just like to say a massive thankyou to @Paulie031 and @donnylad. I owe you both!

Apologies if you didn't want me posting in here showing your workmanship🤣

I got the spacers last week and gave them all a measure up with my cheapie verniers and matched them up into the best possible pairs. To give a bit of background as I was quite vague beforehand, they're a caliper spacer which needed to have a larger OD just to spread the load a bit better

Tested them all at the end of last week and confirmed they're all spot on. I still need to test them with some spacers bolted to the disc to make sure there's zero runout in the disc and it's bolted to the spare hub nice and tight, measured everything up with the feeler gauges

I'll give some more feedback after tomorrow, I'm gonna test them again after work

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Curious what the clearances mean?

 

[Robbie Corbett]

I'm more curious to know how he holds a pen with his hoofs.

 

[Krarl]

Curious what the clearances mean?

Between the caliper and the brake disc

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

Between the caliper and the brake disc

How come there's almost 1mm difference with pair a to d?

 

[Krarl]

How come there's almost 1mm difference with pair a to d?

Because A and D are made by different people mate
I need to do more accurate testing but that was initial offering up. I got to pair C an then thought it would be 10x more accurate if I bolted the disc down 😂

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

@Touring_Rob Hey remember this gear modelling problem with the hob runout? I stumbled upon this video of this sw plugin that does it, obviously it just tells sw what to do with a script, but seemingly its swept cut, something I tried many times! Its kinda expensive but they do time limit and monthly options, could get a trial just to see how it does it!

 

[RSRowe]

What’re you struggling with on the swept? A straight/offset cut like that shouldn’t be too much trouble.

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

What’re you struggling with on the swept? A straight/offset cut like that shouldn’t be too much trouble.

On SolidWorks a helical swept cut using a revolved gear profile (gear hob/cutter) would make some awful results. I could never get it right, unlike these big brained Germans!

 

[RSRowe]

Ah, ok. Helical makes life a little more interesting!

 

[Robbie Corbett]

Ah, ok. Helical makes life a little more interesting!

Yea its a bit of a knob if you want it to be realistic, this is difficult to model accurately:

Admittedly I would never model it accurately as the gear cutters would cut what they could. But if you were 3D printing something etc.

@Touring_Rob Hey remember this gear modelling problem with the hob runout? I stumbled upon this video of this sw plugin that does it, obviously it just tells sw what to do with a script, but seemingly its swept cut, something I tried many times! Its kinda expensive but they do time limit and monthly options, could get a trial just to see how it does it!

Good find!

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

I've been setting up the s shortcut which has made things way better, once in sketch you have the dedicated sketch bar instead, no need for the command bar now. If only I could keep the transparent tree permanent instead of pressing c twice every time would make this ui proper, got to be a way with some code change. Also bugged me the logo top left was red unlike everything else so changed that. First test to see if editing would work was with 'cartoon'

 

[Robbie Corbett]

I've never changed anything like that. I've been using SW near daily for 10+ years and have never thought to change icons.

I do have a decent amount of keyboard shortcuts setup for the most common sketch tools like line, circle, smart dim etc. and that saves so many mouse clicks. I've thought about getting a little keypad with remappable keys to do similar but what I have works fine for me.

Solidworks on dual screens is also woeful.

 

[Louis]

I've never changed anything like that. I've been using SW near daily for 10+ years and have never thought to change icons.

I do have a decent amount of keyboard shortcuts setup for the most common sketch tools like line, circle, smart dim etc. and that saves so many mouse clicks. I've thought about getting a little keypad with remappable keys to do similar but what I have works fine for me.

Solidworks on dual screens is also woeful.

It really is. I hate the little purple filter thing which always comes on when you don't need it to.

I tried setting up dark mode but we are still on 2018 and it looked awful

 

[Robbie Corbett]

I've never used the filter but every new designer we have hits it sometimes and then spends 20mins wondering why they can't select anything, I would obviously never walk past their computer and enable it.

 

[Robbie Corbett]

We had a young lad with us who absolutely lost his s**t when the filter was enabled, a clear bit of tape was added to his mouse laser and his windows language was set to Arabic. He had a proper roid range melt down... I WAS SHOCKED that people in the office had done that to him, SHOCKED. He didn't ever leave his computer unlocked over lunch again.

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

I've never changed anything like that. I've been using SW near daily for 10+ years and have never thought to change icons.

I do have a decent amount of keyboard shortcuts setup for the most common sketch tools like line, circle, smart dim etc. and that saves so many mouse clicks. I've thought about getting a little keypad with remappable keys to do similar but what I have works fine for me.

Solidworks on dual screens is also woeful.

I decided to have a break and muck about for a bit because my 'new' i9 14900k build started to s**t itself, struggled to even clean install windows on a formatted drive. So I bought an amd cpu and mobo and now pc wont even post, combined with being stuck on this lower control arm I'm reverse engineering. f**k it all.

The thing that slows me down the most is moving right hand from mouse to keyboard, cant stop that but if I can limit it all the better.

These things popped up in my youtube feed the other day.

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

Sw made them their own logo.

 

[Louis]

We had a young lad with us who absolutely lost his s**t when the filter was enabled, a clear bit of tape was added to his mouse laser and his windows language was set to Arabic. He had a proper roid range melt down... I WAS SHOCKED that people in the office had done that to him, SHOCKED. He didn't ever leave his computer unlocked over lunch again.

Turn the scroll wheel off. Mines just broke today in the office and it's caused me a world of pain. Last time I had to go without for 6 months as I didn't get round to buying a new mouse.

Those arrow keys upped my fingering game massively

 

[RSRowe]

These things popped up in my youtube feed the other day.

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Spacemouse are mint. I’d not bother getting anything more than a compact personally though.

The bigger ones have lots of features, but I never use em.

 

[Robbie Corbett]

I don't really get on with them so never bothered. Everyone in the office goes through phases of buying them. The ones that like them seem to very expertly move stuff about while I look like a r****d using them.

 

[Ph1 Tom]

I look like a r****d.

Yes

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

@Robbie Corbett I take it this is what people mean by sw having its limits? With surfacing that is.

Took me a bit to figure out how to do the parting line draft, made split lines then deleted the faces and used surface fill. Just don't have much control over the surface and you can see it curve in slightly, no undercuts just wish I had more control. I know bmw use catia which this part is by (e90), dont suppose you know if this type of surfacing would be the thing catia could do easily with control?

 

[Robbie Corbett]

I don't do surfacing tbh, a chap I know who does says Solid Edge is much more powerful for it. Not sure about CATIA either, I've always been told that it's for doing biiiig stuff, aeroplanes etc.

What I can say for sure though is that the person who originally designed the part didn't even model the split lines as accurately as you are 😂 How comes your keen on so much detail?

 

[Beauvais Motorsport]

I don't do surfacing tbh, a chap I know who does says Solid Edge is much more powerful for it. Not sure about CATIA either, I've always been told that it's for doing biiiig stuff, aeroplanes etc.

What I can say for sure though is that person who originally designed the part didn't even model the split lines as accurately as you are 😂 How comes your keen on so much detail?

I dont know how else to do it To get this draft the only way I figured was to draw an ellipse on the face then fillet the sketch into the bottom circle to join them seamlessly, split that face then split 'split line8' on both sides.