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Originally Posted by Mk.32
It appears you are running water for coolant.... and I see rust spots forming. You want to use actual coolant mixed with the water to prevent rust and it cuts better.
If you guys use Solidworks this may be worth checking out: http://www.hsmworks.com/hsmxpress/
The xpress edition is a free plug in for Solidworks, and lets you create 2.5D tool paths within solidworks (it adds another tab), it's quick and really easy for anyone to learn. It also has a Mach2 post built in that runs happy with the Tormach branded Mach3. Also I recently called them up and they gave us the full edition (which includes 3D Milling/4th axis/etc) for free on a educational license. |
We are using water based coolant, which was came with the machine. The vice itself was donated to the team by my father who had it sitting in my basement, we just haven't had time to polish it yet.
We'll defiantly give hsmworks a call and ask about the full edition, that would be awesome! Thanks for the lead!
-M