The Solar Car team has recently acquired a CNC mill. To keep up with maintenance costs we may start machining parts for people (not for free of course) Right now we are working on software issues, but I will keep yall informed.
here is a little video thing i threw together....I have been messing around with the g code functions and having it drill in patterns and random stuff..... The first thing is a piece of plastic i had it drilling holes in a circle the aluminum is the heatsink for the motorcontroller. and thats a picture of it with all the mosfets mounted at the end.
hey i was reading and my drafting teacher, mr Jeff wright at LHS in stockton, ca has a benchman. i ve seen it work and it really nead. currently i only making a house model, but in high school i probably make acooling head for my traxxas revo. he uses AutoCAD w/ 3D and itll mill 6061 aluminum.
thats pretty cool, do you make the sides and assemble it? or do you do it and layers and glue them on top of each other?
We use solidworks to make our parts for the solarcar. Its alot simpler than autocad for making solids. The part then can be exported into Master Cam and that is used to generate the tool paths (for complicated stuff).
Today I machined the first part that was machined in solid works....it was just some simple cuts ( kinda looks like heat sink fins) but it was a pretty big step as far as software goes. I might post a video of it. the next step is to make brake caliper brackets for the car.....
cnc milling
Posted - Mar 03 2005 : 12:53:31 AM
