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32 lines
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## Week 2 - The Whole Meatball
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This week we go through the entire workflow for creating a CNC automation.
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### Running An Automation
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To begin the lesson, we start off by getting familiar with using a Gcode sender application to control a CNC machine. This lesson includes:
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* how to set up the machine
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* mounting materials
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* calibrating the machine
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* loading gcode files
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* activating and monitoring the machine
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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.
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### Creating an Automation
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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.
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Concepts covered include:
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* Why CAD software is used
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* Workbenches
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* Relational modelling
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* Constraints
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* Alias and the Spreadsheet
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* Cam Workbench
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* Job setup
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* CAM operations
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* Tool bit programming
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* Post-processing and generation of Gcode |