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Author: OddlyTimbot <timbot@oddlystudios.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 28 11:03:35 2026 -0400

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+Subjects covered:
+
+## Get to Know a CNC - Week 1
+
+Learn about:
+
+* job origin
+* work coordinates vs. job coordinates
+* manual control (when it is needed)
+* various types of bits
+
+Concepts covered:
+
+Hands-on with the machines. Learn how they move, how to manually control them, mounting up materials.
+
+Get to know the basic principles of a CNC mill by doing exercises on the mini-machine, then re-creating them on the industrial machine.
+
+Exercise 1: Setting up for operations
+
+Exercise 2: Manual control of CNC
+
+Exercise 3: Using coordinates, setting a job origin
+
+
+
+## First Automation! - Week 2 - Inlay Project
+
+Learn about:
+
+* Intro to CAD/CAM/Vector Art
+* Surfacing Materials with CAM
+* Understanding pockets/profiles/engraves
+* Sending automations
+
+Concepts covered:
+
+Walk through the process of creating a decorative inlay. Learn to surface and secure materials, along with creating pockets and profiles for a fancy inlay project.
+
+This week we concentrate on the machine operations and learn the basic principles for doing a successful inlay with various materials. Students are given a design to work from, and will learn to create their own designs in the next lesson.
+
+Exercise 1: Create a surfacing tool
+
+Exercise 2: Running an automation with pockets
+
+Exercise 3: Running an automation with profiles
+
+Exercise 4: Assembling an inlay
+
+
+
+## Multi-body Modelling - Week 3 - Inlay Project 2
+
+Learn about:
+* Vector Drawing
+* Design for CNC
+* Tolerance
+* Bit Selection
+* Speeds and Feeds
+
+Concepts covered:
+
+Learn to adjust graphic design techniques for production using a CNC mill. Learn to plan ahead and account for fit tolerance, material strength, and choosing good bits to work with.
+
+Students work in a vector drawing tool, learning to adapt the design environment for CAM operations.
+
+### Project: Fancy Inlay
+
+* Nodes
+* Paths
+* Tolerance
+
+## 3-Dimensional CAM - Week 4 - Wall Art Project
+
+Learn about:
+* Dressups
+* 3D modelling and booleans
+* Parametric Concepts
+* Slicing
+
+Concepts covered:
+
+In this lesson, students learn to model in 3D and perform slicing operations in order to make parametric 3-dimensional wall art.
+
+### Project: Wall Art (Parametric)
+
+* Part Workbench
+* Creating 3-dimensional Surfaces
+* Slicing operations
+* Placement and alignment for CAM
+
+
+## Relief Carving - Week 5 - 3D Surfacting
+
+Learn about:
+
+* Dovetail joints
+* Keyed joints
+* Scarf joints
+* Mortise and Tenon joints
+* Lap Joints
+
+Concepts covered:
+
+Learn to create organic shapes using surface modelling, and how to turn them in CAM operations
+
+Exercise 1: Plenth modelling (surface)
+
+Exercise 2: CAM creation (Kirimoto)
+
+
+## Final Project - Week 6 - Flipped 3D Surfacing
+
+Learn about:
+
+* When to use true 3D
+* Double-sided 3D Surfaces
+* Securing materials
+
+Concepts covered:
+
+Students take on planning and executing a full 3-dimensional project by learning to flip materials. Lesson includes planning ahead for coordinated operations.
+
+Successfully completing the final assignment unlocks 3 hour of machine time you can book for your own use.
+
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