CNC Machines

[finni]

our team owns 2 milling machines the first one is a small scale CNC machine that our sponsor bought us about 4 years ago and the other one is a regular milling machine with no CNC they bought a few years ago they work out great for us we have a few students that are trained on the CNC and most are trained on the milling machine

[Jared Russell]

We have several (both mills and lathes) at our disposal. Our team encompasses three schools now, and one of them is a technical/vocational school. The students from that school know how to use the CNC equipment.

[artdutra04]

Team 228 has access to a full CNC sheet metal shop through one of our sponsors; all parts that we have them make for our team are made by their employees. Since our 'partnership' was only finalized about a week before the 2007 Kickoff, we haven't yet had the time to fully teach all the new students about the new technology. (That's what the off-season's for. I know I personally have wanted to make all kinds of custom Vex components out of 0.040" aluminum on one of their CNC turret-punch machines. )

[Guy Chriqui]

Our team has three of our own CNC machines. Two HAAS Machines (1 VF-2 Mill and one SL-10 Lathe) and a FADAL EMC Mill. They are all run by students on our team and programmed by them as well. We do all our CAD/CAM in GibbsCAM and export with custom posts. Our machines are our babies and we treat them as such but anyone in the area is welcome to use our resources if we can share them.
-Guy

[KTorak]

Our school has several mills and lathes, a bandsaw, and some other saws. Two of our sponsors are customer metal fabricators so we also have access to pretty much any metal machine under the sun (including the awesome heloarching we got done). But i'm talking about machines the size of classrooms here.

The funny thing is...it seems like nothing is getting done at our sponsors because all they do is think about the robot and do stuff for it...kinda like students in class.

[VEN]

I have a cnc mill in my basement. It's not big like the ones people have in school shops but it does the job for the robot and my other hobbies. As far as learning how to use it, self education.