implmex
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver BC Canada
Hi Rob:
With your background and your eagerness to learn, you are going to do just fine in this new domain.
It's actually not all that different from any other subtractive metalworking process: you are using a slightly different tool with slightly different constraints and advantages, but ultimately you still are getting rid of the material you don't want so your part will emerge from the raw block you started out with.
So when you invoke this process for your projects, think in terms of those advantages and constraints, and then plan your process just like you would if you were milling it or turning it or grinding it.
Bud Guitrau's book is an excellent resource to help you understand what those advantages and constraints are...many of them are straightforward and obvious (especially once they've been pointed out to you), but some are subtle and will be experience driven.
So you have to accept fuckups as part of your education...embrace them as the price of learning.
Once you've been at this for a while, it will be second nature to you...it's truly not that hard.
A good bit of it is learning what the limits are...and with a top of the line machine like yours, those limits are pretty incredible, so you can do stuff easily that would be impossibly hard if you didn't have the toy...I use mine routinely (but not often enough to justify a really good one) to make stuff that other shops just can't do..
Welcome to the club!
Cheers
Marcus
www.implant-mechanix.com
www.vancouverwireedm.com
With your background and your eagerness to learn, you are going to do just fine in this new domain.
It's actually not all that different from any other subtractive metalworking process: you are using a slightly different tool with slightly different constraints and advantages, but ultimately you still are getting rid of the material you don't want so your part will emerge from the raw block you started out with.
So when you invoke this process for your projects, think in terms of those advantages and constraints, and then plan your process just like you would if you were milling it or turning it or grinding it.
Bud Guitrau's book is an excellent resource to help you understand what those advantages and constraints are...many of them are straightforward and obvious (especially once they've been pointed out to you), but some are subtle and will be experience driven.
So you have to accept fuckups as part of your education...embrace them as the price of learning.
Once you've been at this for a while, it will be second nature to you...it's truly not that hard.
A good bit of it is learning what the limits are...and with a top of the line machine like yours, those limits are pretty incredible, so you can do stuff easily that would be impossibly hard if you didn't have the toy...I use mine routinely (but not often enough to justify a really good one) to make stuff that other shops just can't do..
Welcome to the club!
Cheers
Marcus
www.implant-mechanix.com
www.vancouverwireedm.com
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