CNC demonstration was Re: NAMES

So something like this:
http://www.cartertools.com/3Dpath.html
But done in real time, from design to toolpath to milling? And maybe
with a more "useful" part like a flywheel...

I always need input on what would make the process clearer on my web
pages, and when my kids are older I hope to do demos at GEARS, so
thoughts like this are helpful.

Index plates are a good idea, fairly simple to program and quick to
mill, especially if you use the same endmill to drill the holes as cut
out the plate.

> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:04:12 -0400
> From: "David A. Frantz" <spinwizard@...>
> Subject: Re: NAMES

> One thing that seems to be lacking with the CNC demos are clear examples
> of the process and advantages of using CNC at the hobbiest level.
> What may help here is a display that shows the CAD/CAM development of an
> item side by side with its production in hardware. A indexing plate
> comes to mind as something that would be easy to do and quickly realized
> in steel. Similarly generating a profile that would be hard to do on a
> manual machine may have big benefits in attracting people. The idea
> here is for hobbiest to see somethng that they can acknowledge as a real
> benefit to things they do. There are obvious other parts that this
> may work well with, airplane parts come to mind.

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