Category: Miscellaneous

 

 

 

 

For my second project I used the CNC router to create relief carvings in 1 x 4 planks of wood.  The carvings were very intricate animals and would have taken an incredibly long time to do by hand.   However, the CNS router carved all of my pieces of wood in about 8 hours.  Here are some pictures of the process

 

Setting up the cut file for routing

 

The first few carvings

 

A bit more grogress

 

One whole piece is almost finished

 

 

Essentially done

 

Here is the bench assembled with a close up of the final products of the router

Click this link for a video I took of the router cutting

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For my senior design project, I had to cut out a large part that can hold water. After seeing the foam CNC machine in the Sculpture lab, I thought it would be the easiest to manufacture this part out of foam and using the CNC machine to get the desired shape. Here is the process of Prof. Meiser and I setting the machine up and getting the final shape.

Figure 1. The CAD drawing was uploaded to the CNC program and the uncut foam block was drawn over it.

Figure 2. Setting the axis and the zero point

Figure 3. Measuring the length of the drill bit and seeing how far it can go down into the part

Figure 4. Fixing the foam block to the board

Figure 5. Checking to see if the drill head can reach the maximum travel

Figure 6. Setting the zero point

Figure 7. Successfully aligning the drill to the zero point

Figure 8. The rough cut

Figure 9. Finished piece.