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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Using Heeks CNC

I am slowly making progress on the New CNC v2.0 machine! I recently bought some aluminium spacers and bolts off of McMaster.com. I just need to cut out two more pieces and the Z and Y axes will be done! For all the parts I have cut so far, I have been using Solidworks to draw the 3D parts and HeeksCNC to generate the G-Code for EMC to use.

My Y axis ends, drawn in Solidworks, tool path generated with HeeksCNC.

A part I cut out of foam for a friend.

HeeksCNC is the only decent free software for easily creating tool paths! It is not perfect but it does perform well enough to cut fairly complicated pieces.

I will have to take pictures of my Z and Y axes and post them!