Toolpaths
A toolpath that is used to make holes, using circular downwards movements.
What is a bore toolpath?
The sharp-edged cutting tool used to cut through polycarb and aluminum.
What is the bit?
How fast the spindle spins the bit.
What is spindle speed?
The button that cuts all power to the CNC machine, instantaneously shutting it down.
The proper headgear and eyewear you must have on in order to use the CNC safely.
What is headphone/earbuds + safety glasses?
A toolpath used to make an outline of a part in cutting, made with precise layer by layer cuts that increase in depth.
What is a 2D contour toolpath?
The slots in which clamps slide into, to properly secure material to the spoilboard.
What are the T-tracks?
The view on fusion 360 that you can create toolpaths and alter feeds and speeds to CAM your part.
The set of tasks you need to do in order to fully prep the CNC for cutting.
What is the CNC order of operations?
What is the CNC Cheat Sheet?
A toolpath used to make divot or hollow cavity in a part.
What is a 2D pocket toolpath?
The tool on the computer used for manual gantry movement.
What is the keypad?
How fast the bit goes into the material.
The place on the fabrication laptop that has access to all the .sbp files for cutting.
What is the CNC incoming files?
The golden rule of fabrication.
You'll hear it before you see it.
A toolpath used to cut the most optimal way of making a "scooped out" area in a part, much like an indentation.
What is an adaptive clear toolpath?
The comb like piece on the CNC machine that helps keep excess material (chips) from flying all over.
The view on fusion 360 in which you can CAD (sketches, extrude, holes, etc.)
The process of prepping the spindle/bit specifically, in order to run the CNC.
What is warming up the CNC?
The space where design sends us CADs and organizes them for us to cut.
What is the CNC Queue and Log?
A toolpath used to cut smaller holes, ones the bore cannot, using short and quick plunges into the material to carefully chip away a hole.
What is a circular toolpath?
The protective electrical enclosure that controls the speed of the spindle.
What is the VFD box?
How deep into the spoilboard below the actual cut the bit will go to ensure it cuts all the way through.
What is Bottom Offset?
This plastic and the smaller bit that we use, are the one that's easier to cut and the one that breaks easier.
What is polycarb and the 3/32" bit?
The fusion 360 application you can use to check your CAM and toolpaths by watching them, without actually machining them.