3D Carving from an STL File (Part Two) 

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I realized that with these tapered ball nose bits and the soft pine wood -I didn't need any roughing pass :) - there has to be tons of Mach3 videos out there - but I could probably make one too :)

Those might even be like 2X10 I think LOL - the sanding thing is a wire brush cup or wheel - I got them from Amazon :) amzn.to/3haUiwl

Thanks! Those are off Amazon - amzn.to/3u9wj28

Thanks - it's a stain :)

Not at all :) Those are Kreg in line clamps - amzn.to/3v0aBxh

Sure! these are what I bought along with the bench dogs (but really any bench dog will do) amzn.to/35bNTaR

Thanks! The sanding thing is a wire brush cup - I got them from Amazon :) amzn.to/3haUiwl

Sorry I don't speak Spanish otherwise I'd try to make one for you!

I got them off Amazon - they are nylon abrasive cup brush for drills - amzn.to/3u9wj28 it's a set of 3 different grits (might be more available too)

and Thanks! :)

@@HoarderOfHobbies I guess the Light Blue that your using is the 320 Grit (Softest of the lot?)... Thanks for the link!

@@MichaelDavidHiltner Yeah the blue is the 320, grey is 120 and red is 80

That info is covered in part one - but it's a .75mm tapered ball nose bit (amzn.to/2UEWPAr) and what's nice about them is you can usually get away without a roughing pass (if the engraving is not too deep) so the depth of cut on this one, at it's max, was like .25" or so

@@HoarderOfHobbies Thank you very much. 😍😍😍

This is the spindle kit that I bought amzn.to/30VgorW and the motors that drive the axis are stepper motors, Nema23 - like these amzn.to/3iMTyZt

I got mine off Amazon - amzn.to/41pz9jS - search for "abrasive wire brush for drill"

This is probably my third machine, maybe 4th - each one has gotten bigger and bigger LOL - the blue clamps are Kreg In Line Clamps amzn.to/3xMhMvz

Hello, sorry to bother you again. This has to be the newbiest question ever lol. When my machine is doing the rough tool path it is cutting way too deep making my cnc head struggle. Is there a way in aspire where I can tell the machine how many passes and how deep to go in the roughing step?? Thanks :)

@@markisherecanada No problem! When you pick the tool for the roughing job there will be some options for the tool, and the one you want to look for is "Pass Depth" - I usually set that to the diameter of the tool or less depending on how hard the material I am cutting is

Omg your awesome. I'll repay you some day for all your help. Thanks so much

@@markisherecanada No need to repay :) Somebody was there to help me when I needed it, it's the least I can do to pass it on :)

Look for "Tapered Ball Nose" - these are my favorite bits amzn.to/3dwP2li - the smaller the tip the better resolution, but also the longer time it takes to carve :)

Etsy has some really good ones, and ebay has a ton as well

The original machine was one bought off of eBay, so no official brand - and then I upgraded nearly everything on it - bigger motors, stronger rails and supports, etc... so it's a "Franken" CNC ;)

@@HoarderOfHobbies Interesting thanks. I guess I'll do the same, so what is the total budget you spent to get the work you're doing now?

@@Engineering_Science I've probably spent way too much, because a lot of experiments that didn't quite work out or were swapped out later - I can't really say how much I've spent since I didn't really keep that good of a track of it

@@HoarderOfHobbies Well that was a learning experience you had for having the time to do the experiments. I'm now considering to simply buy a precision Matthews bench mill and convert it into a CNC which the include's the CNC kit, costs about $6K shipped into the house.

@@Engineering_Science Those look pretty nice! If I had any room I'd love to get a proper metal working CNC mill

It's a frankenstein :) part of it was a machine from eBay and I put nearly all new parts on it, made new gantry sides, etc...

Etsy :) like $9

Pine not fancy enough for you? LOL

Carves better than I thought it would, some fuzzies but nothing crazy. Cherry would be sweet.

@@JS-rp7qb I just got a big box of sample wood / cut offs that I'm going to try a bunch of different stuff with - pretty sure there's cherry in there!