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Step 3Design whatever you want to make
use your CAD program to design what you want to mill out. Remember, the EGX can only mill from top down. Your design can still have concavities on the top and bottom side, you're just going to have to flip it over so the EGx can mill both sides.
I usually split my design into pieces which I melt together with a soldering iron after the EGX has milled them out.
Make sure there is no piece of your design taller than what can fit below the mill bit of the EGX.
After you're done with your design, make a wall around it which is the height of the pladtic material you will be milling. If the material it taller than the workable length of your mill bit, make a lower ledge within this wall (see my CAD design below).
make sure that all spaces are wider than the whatever mill bit diameter you use!
make thin arms to hold yor design as it's being milled.
I usually split my design into pieces which I melt together with a soldering iron after the EGX has milled them out.
Make sure there is no piece of your design taller than what can fit below the mill bit of the EGX.
After you're done with your design, make a wall around it which is the height of the pladtic material you will be milling. If the material it taller than the workable length of your mill bit, make a lower ledge within this wall (see my CAD design below).
make sure that all spaces are wider than the whatever mill bit diameter you use!
make thin arms to hold yor design as it's being milled.
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