awesome. Thank you

Anyone get 3 axis deburr to work without a multiaxis license like it states? I'm guessing they forgot to make that accessible to full 3 axis seats.

I spit out my drink. HAHA. Varg just going nutso with magnesium

Another fun thing is to bring home a bag of chips to throw in the bon fire for the kids. Especially fun in the winter with snow. Throw snow on top of the burning magnesium and it goes insane.

Heavier finish passes. You don't want thin chips. Like Ron said, no dull tools. Don't leave machine unattended. Make sure you're not piling up chips inside the machine to mitigate issues should a fire start. Water based coolant seems to oxidize the xxxx out of it. Keep that in mind. Preferrable to run straight oil. If this is a machine that you run water based coolant in you'll destroy the coolant pretty quickly as the magnesium causes the hardness to skyrocket and the emulsifiers decide to go home (coolant splits.) Other than that can't think of much. I've machined a fair bit of it without issue.

Schunk makes some really nice ones. Had them setup on a robot cell at the last place I worked.

Sounds like they milled the walls first leaving stock on the floor, and used the flat bottom drill to finish the floor. Interesting.

ah maybe this is what I was experiencing as I did the same.

You sure? I swear I used this same method in 2023 as well.

Exactly what I was going to suggest as well.

Is the slot entire length of part (has open ends?)

That's pretty damn clever

Must be a fancy wire edm doing helical entry and all

Right now just one 3 axis VMC that I'm in front of all day. How the current shop is, you are the programmer, the setup, and the operator. Previously at another job several 4 axis VMCs, a few 3 axis VMCs, a 2 axis lathe, and two wire EDMS.

Been using bambu lab x1c since april for all kinds of stuff. Printed almost every material it can print. Also have a flashforge creator pro that I've modded quite a bit to get it where I wanted it to be. Even so, the x1c blows that thing out of the water in terms of print quality and speed.