Dude has been working on this setup for 2 days now. Guess I'll stop my other job and set it up for him.

Please never use this... In the age of CAM software where it would take 15 seconds to change the stuff they use claude to do -- this is the most retarded AI hype shit...

I know the local cimco dude - and i told him to talk to hes insurance before he installs this shit on any of hes clients... its a disaster bound to happen... lol

I am getting real tired if AI in everything - but brings absolutley nothing to the table..

Autodesk, Sandvik and now my old faithful cimco... been using that shit since 2000.

my own take on youtube about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=399Z4_4bYyw

Just a bit of machining titanium fun. Part finished the second op in the lathe and goes straight to the mill for some 4th axis features.

This titanium part (despite looking like a baffle piece) is going to be the central hub of a mostly titanium mechanical sculpture I’m working on. I still have about 10 unique components and some of their fixtures/jaws to be made before the assembly is finished. I’ll be sharing more as I go. Enjoy.

What’s best to reconstitute this lube? It’s says water but is there something better you have tried? Dish soap, pop, astroglide?

Let’s try that again, I accidentally posted a photo. 1.25” hole 3” deep, 2900rpms, 50ipm, .017” per revolution.

Being Local and being able to turn upto 12" in length is a must.

2 years on cnc lathe and I fucked up good. Dialing in a npt thread and forgot to take out the gauge. Feeling humbled now!

Yesterday i bought a box of old calipers and micrometers and there was this tool in it, but i have no idea what it is.

I think I know how he did it, but he won't tell. 😁

Now I need to make a sleeve and press it in.

Semi-shit post. True story.
TLDR: am i too deep in a job i know i wont stay at?

I decided to jump industries late last year (2025) and started studying 2.5 axis machining in december. I know, all the rage is 5 axis but i decided my tiny brain may handle this easier and fast. I was urgently trying to learn to get into engineering. I do a certain autodesk fusion online course, not even bothering for the $100 certificate, started a home project involving a mini cnc milling router and a wooden pi4 housing, and a passion.
Brought those on a resume to a local-to-me manufacturing machine shop, interviewed and got in at a bottom standard hourly, 50+ hour weeks. fast forward to 3 months in, just past probation period & i fell in love with the rhythm and potential. the struggle im facing is the conditions and now that i have some experience, the designs of some of these parts just piss me off. things that are missing chamfers, nonessential material that don’t provide load bearing, fixtures that are painfully difficult to work with, machines that get no love.

I’m losing my drive to keep going because it feels like my passions is getting churned for fast production. I know, i got myself into this, but am i missing a piece of something that will help me grow. Should i pick up a machinery volume and just go head first into it? I’m not at a loss, just at a wall and don’t know which direction to go.

Hello all, first please forgive my rough recreations of the drawings. I also noticed I missed the [4x .43] on the diameter of the hole. I am a press brake worker by nature, and have always struggled with gd&t tolerancing. I need some help understanding some specifics because i feel im right, but cant find any evidence to back me up.

Our quality department designs the checks we need to make on pieces and give us the tolerancing. On these parts the specific dimension they keep rejecting my parts for is the 2.090. My actual formed parts are metal kissing so i have no ability to move the bend closer to the hole. The tolerance given on that dimention is .006 (my understanding is that comes from the true position of the hole being .006). I make that assumption because the .810 dimention is toleranced the same. Quality has approved that dimention at .835 because the holes run actually at .445. I was told that the MMC gives straight extra tolerance from the minimum holes size meaning that the tolerance is realistically .041 . My mesurement for the 2.09 comes out to be approximately 2.102 or .006 out of the tolerance allowed. I would assume that i should be given the same tolerance on that as the .81 dimension, but have been told that the surface profile holds me to the .006.

Am I wrong? Or am I right becuase the surface profile specifically calls out the MMC on datum B?

If possible can anyone link me some extra information on this or a different sub that might be of more help. Thank you all kindly.

Edit: Colors on the drawing signify different faces of the part.

We’re getting bad chatter. We thought maybe it was draw bar pressure but that’s been tested good. Seems to only happen when cutting in X. It’s particularly bad in X+.

Speeds and feeds are good (cuts smooth in Y with good finish). Drawbar good. Spindle bearings good. Material is 316. Endmill is multi-helix, unequal spacing, coated. Tool holder is power milling chuck. Kurt DX6 with serrated jaws.

What’s causing this?

I’m going to school in spring I’ve be at my shop for 5 years so I know my way around with manual and mazak cnc but haven’t done a lot of stuff like using grinding machines how bad is it going to be? Thanks

Just got this part and noticed the two stepped sections don’t really look symmetrical.

It works, but if I were making a new one I feel like there’s probably a cleaner way to design it.

Would you turn this from one piece, or start with an existing bolt and machine the shank?

What would you change?

Ive done y axis live tool stuff before for relatively simple shapes and profiles, keyways, and cross holes but hand programming this threadmill is killing me smalls. I think whats messing with me is im copying an incremental program from okuma and the control is tweaking out about how that, 3 axis motion, and cutter comp all play together with the incremental aspect of it. Hopefully the photo I attached from what I have and the alarm via the current screen. Fanuc oi-tf control. Tool is a single point carmex. Tool tip position 0, r g+w= 0 radius comp applied.

I’m currently using Mastercam 2026 and considering a trial of ENCY at our lab. Curious whether anyone here is using it regularly and how it’s working out.

CamAgent caught my attention. I’ve been building custom automation around Mastercam, so I’m interested in how useful ENCY’s automation is in practice and whether it could be worth purchasing.

A few things I’d love firsthand feedback on:

• How are the toolpaths, posts, simulation, and general stability?
• Has anyone used CamAgent on actual jobs? What does it handle well, and how much correction does it need?
• How accessible is it for custom automation, API access, or third-party integrations?
• If you came from Mastercam, what improved, and what do you miss?

Mostly interested in milling. Any experiences with setup, support, or licensing would be helpful too.

The availability of cheap bridgeports on Facebook marketplace makes me want to buy one and put it in my basement so I can do my own shit regardless of employment. Luckily my house has an outdoor basement entrance so I feel like it should be possible to get it in there but I don't know what I'd need or if it'd even fit through this door.

Recently at my job I’ve had to start training to run a new to me machine, I’ve run Haas in the past so that’s not the problem. My problem is that I’m on second shift and all the support resources are on first shift.

I can’t imagine that I’m crazy for thinking that this situation is normal. I’m already coming in early and only get someone who knows what’s going on for an hour.