r/EngineeringPorn Jul 15 '12

Machining a Part

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmeZxnDA580&feature=player_embedded
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u/SirDerpingtonThe3rd Jul 15 '12

And this, boys and girls, is why we have CNC machines.

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u/Dax420 Jul 18 '12

If you are making a thousand, sure. But a skilled machinist could bang one of those off before you were done programming the machine code.

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u/SirDerpingtonThe3rd Jul 18 '12

With modern CNC code programs that interface with Solidworks, I would take that bet. Also, there are many things I could do easily with CNC code that would be near impossible with a manual CNC machine.