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Step 5Get ready to mill
you'll need to mount you plastic in a stable way so that it doesn't shift during milling. The EGX comes with clamps to help do this.
The way I did it is:
I stuck plastic slabs to the EGX bed using mounting tape. I made a .3dm CAD file which had two 1mm diameter holes, one on each side of a large slab. I send these to visual mill and the EGX which drilled holes into the plastic taped to the EGX bed.
I used these holes to put dowel pins in, so all future plastic that I mill with the EGX gets mounted on these pins (have to drill 1mm holes into each plastic slab that I want to mill). (use the same .3dm file I used for the original bed drilling)
After mounting my project plastic onto the dowel pins, I also put melted glue with a glue gun all around the piece to keep it even more stable. This isn't very necessary.
The way I did it is:
I stuck plastic slabs to the EGX bed using mounting tape. I made a .3dm CAD file which had two 1mm diameter holes, one on each side of a large slab. I send these to visual mill and the EGX which drilled holes into the plastic taped to the EGX bed.
I used these holes to put dowel pins in, so all future plastic that I mill with the EGX gets mounted on these pins (have to drill 1mm holes into each plastic slab that I want to mill). (use the same .3dm file I used for the original bed drilling)
After mounting my project plastic onto the dowel pins, I also put melted glue with a glue gun all around the piece to keep it even more stable. This isn't very necessary.
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