Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Help - CNC prototyping of aluminum panel needed someday

"Multi-Volti Devices" <multi-volti@...>wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I thought I'd ask on this list...
>
> I have some projects coming up...someday...hopefully sooner than
> later...where I'll need a couple small aluminum panels with holes
> (electronic equipment prototypes) made per a precise layout (so an engraved
> or etched front panel made elsewhere aligns precisely).
>
> A local CNC-mill-equipped friend I had arrangements with for such work was
> killed in an "Ultralight" plane crash last week...needless to say, in
> addition to the loss of the friend, the resource was lost also.
>
> I'm talking maybe a 12" x 12" x 1/8 aluminum plate with a dozen or two holes
> ranging from 1/8" to 2" diameter.

If you have the holes drawn up in CAD (DXF or something), then any
cnc punch (round/square holes only) / cnc waterjet / cnc laserjet outfit can do it.

If its not already in DXF, then its going to cost a lot more because
they will have to get a programmer to draft it up first (and that will
make just one panel pretty expensive).

Doug