CNC Aluminum Casting

aluminum casting for polystyrene

CNC prototype the original form.

Step 1:

3d model made for Rhinoceros 5

Step 2:

Mills to 50% of the material

Step 3:

important are these two holes drilled through polystyrene

Step 4:

rotate and align material of the holes on the other side

Step 5:

Next, I proceeded according to the

https://www.instructables.com/id/Low-Cost-Aluminum...

and this is the result

Step 6:

the finish results

Comments

[begothic]

Hello. I like the idea for the alignment holes. Did you place those in or did your software do it? Also how did you split your 3d model in half? I'm new to cnc milling. Thanks!

[BeachsideHank]

Excellent result, nice symbiosis of two totally different technologies.