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Originally Posted by Couerl  Interesting Shorty, creating organic models such as the torso here in nurbs however is not as easy as it is in polygonal. Will a 4 axis machine do the same kind of contouring or will it be restricted more or how does that work? If you do get one I'd be interested in having something done if you're up to it. I'm just not sure what it costs to do something, even a figure done in a 10lb block of aluminum I imagine would be spendy. |
That was a lot of metal to cut out with out any coolant. I did not like this CNC mill. It seems like the base that holds the tool rotates as opposed to the fixture (the platform the sculpture was on). I did not watch the whole thing so I may have missed something. A lot of the $1,400.00 mills are decent for protypes but the track feed is usually very small. This mill looked like it only had one tool although it might have a magazine storage that was not seen. We had people do some fancy things at our machine shop.