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Week 2 - The Whole Meatball
This week we go through the entire workflow for creating a CNC automation.
Running An Automation
To begin the lesson, we start off by getting familiar with using a Gcode sender application to control a CNC machine. This lesson includes:
- how to set up the machine
- mounting materials
- calibrating the machine
- loading gcode files
- activating and monitoring the machine
Following this, students will have a good idea of what can and can not be done at the gcode sending software, and can proceed to learning how the automation file was created.
Creating an Automation
In the second part of the lesson, students will get familiar with using a CAD/CAM application. They will create their first parametric model using design tools, then learn to create automation using CAM tools.
Concepts covered include:
- Why CAD software is used
- Workbenches
- Relational modelling
- Constraints
- Alias and the Spreadsheet
- Cam Workbench
- Job setup
- CAM operations
- Tool bit programming
- Post-processing and generation of Gcode