Design for Manufacturing Course 8 Part 1: CNC

Scott Miller, 16 minute video

Video from Dragon Innovation. Watch on YouTube.

What you'll get

Scott Miller's 2014 overview of machined parts covers the kinds of parts typically machined, the pros and cons of machining, how CNC cutting works, design guidelines and common materials, and where a manual mill fits compared with a CNC one. Watch it before you send a drawing to a machine shop, then ask the shop which materials and tolerances it recommends, because the lecture is general and comes from a firm that sold manufacturing services.

Do this week

Choose one part of your product that could be machined and ask a machine shop what changes to its shape or tolerances would lower the price.