To CNC? Or not to CNC?

[Jon K.]

This year RAGE was lucky enough to have CNC Software, Inc. The creators of MasterCAM as one of our sponsors. I am lucky enough to be able to use the machine donated to our team and the use of MasterCAM software. It does take a while to learn the basics of the machine, but we have two people working it and between the two of us we know most of what needs to be known. We also have the President of MasterCAM teaching us how to use the software and the CNC machine. We are very lucky this year and are hoping to be able to create aluminum sprockets to sell to FIRST teams in the near future. But we are also helping out a few teams this year by creating sprockets for them as well as our own. I have found the CNC machine to be very easy to use when you get used to it, but like I said we have someone with a large knowledge base in the field to help us.