any one else find this cool

What about the W16 Block

[yorkie_chris]

Who else has been following the B-thing project in streetfighters?


Here's another of my favourites, a guy built his own CNC mill
http://www.5bears.com/cnc.htm Some REALLY cool machining projects on there. Want to build your own jet, turboprop or radial engines?


Purdy


Armalite receiver paperweight

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

I vote cool...

Can I be an engineer when I grow up? Although I imagine that the skill lies in being able to program the machine to cut the block into what you need? That must take a lot of maths...

Why maths? CAD CAM is all about making the computer do the work.
Talk to DavieSV on here about it, he is CNC man.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Why maths? CAD CAM is all about making the computer do the work.
Talk to DavieSV on here about it, he is CNC man.

CAM is all well and good but operators need to know the long hand code, maths, etc etc for problem solving. I think the industry is still a long way off automated machining.

[andrewsmith]

The CNC machinery is a mix of CAM and the old analoge systems, my old high school did have cnc lathes that ran on the old cards along with £100k 3 axis cam lathes

this is what the cam software can do (or a varient of the systems)