We did our milling projects with aluminum and acrylic. Probably not the cheapest material though I'd recommend attempting to teach the students what is actually happening when and end mill plunges, or faces material and the forces involved. And why sometimes lower feed with a slower spindle speed would be better.

I have an Idea for you. Get GIMP or PSP Trial or photoshop if you have it. Open the image you want to put into geometry, and make a new layer that is transparent ontop of it. Set the Foreground color to PINK or something like that that stands out. Make the transparent layer active. Use the Pen tool and trace the image out. (The lines that you will want to be used as the geometry is what you want to trace.) Hide the background layer(The one with the crap image) and make the transparent layer active again. Use the marquee box and drag it around the whole image, then go to edit, select merged. Then go to File-New and Paste it. You should only have the path you made. After that's all done, scale the path up about 500%. And import it to MC with R2V or Wintopo, and touch up inside The Geometry should come out almost perfect if it's only a 2 color image that you traced.

Post your code like here: http://xodus.pastebin.ca/new.php and do VB.NET highlighting so we can read it better You're IDE should give you the line where there error is and everything? I'm a C# guy but to replace string / char's I would do (This is implying that is an escape character like in C#, if it's not, you don't have to use 2 and 4!) code: foo = GetCustomer.ToString; foo = foo.Replace("","");

Okay, I'll look into him. I gotta save up some money or get a job(been looking... Freelance PHP for the win! ) My license just ran up after getting it for christmas 2 years ago

Jay, I never actually tried to run a program posted from the mc demo And this was at the beginning of my softmore year, I'm now halfway through my junior year! I don't have it installed anymore, so yeah. Don't worry about it, you know who he is though.

He he. Just wondering, is there an official Solidworks reseller down here in SD? I'm trying to find an unpaid HighSchool internship with a company using S/W. I bought my solidworks SE from my moms school, so I don't actually have one.

I'm not a mastercam customer! My instructor is

Hey man, I can help you out alot with that Do you have MSN messenger or anything like that? Or populate IRC anywhere? Only thing I can really say that would make it better, without getting too complex, is using a include() function to keep the content on the main page! I can show you how to do that, or if you want, I could do it for free Using the include() would keep the navbar and everything the same, so it would make your life(and the users) life MUCH easier! You in San Diego btw? I'm Santee.

Hmm, the student version can't post but can save, but the demo my instructor gave me was able to post, but not save? I find that funny

MC9 Demo works pretty good on my HP laptop. It's all stock with only 512MB's of ram.

Wow, all in one day What was that about the avatar? I still haven't got a reply from my email I think I might send another one sometime. The least he can do is say you can't have one since you don't have Mastercam You can use in here too!

I'm going to your shop to play with that

code: test1 test2 test3

All it is is some lumps with a Surface pocket rough. I got the same thing on my head, let me see if I can find the pictures. http://www.softmodfiles.net/head There it is

This thread has gotten way out of hand. Will someone please lock it?