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

![Week1](./wk1.jpg)


## 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

![Week2](./wk2.jpg)


## 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

![Week3](./wk3.jpg)

## 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

![Week4](./wk4.jpg)


## 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)

![Week5](./wk5.jpg)


## 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.

![Week6](./wk6.jpg)

Successfully completing the final assignment unlocks 3 hour of machine time you can book for your own use.