El Beast - Initial design phase, comments and critique welcomed!

**Zeeflyboy** · 23-05-2017

Thanks, I'll see if I can find out whether or not the pokeys57cnc can do that... certainly a good option to consider.

**charlieuk** · 23-05-2017

great work very nice , what motor mounts are you using?

**Zeeflyboy** · 23-05-2017

Cheers. They are MBA12-C mounts with FK12 bearing blocks and matching FF12 at the other end.

**Zeeflyboy** · 23-05-2017

Well, wasn't needed at work today so thought I'd be productive!

Machined one set of wings:

Initial setup for drilling/milling

Fastened down with m6 bolts:

I totally love adaptive clearing on fusion 360:

flipped over and machined on second side:

finished parts:

And some fitted pics:

I've ordered a new spindle, mine is definitely not quite happy and I'm concerned that soon it may start causing actual problems. There goes next months budget

**routercnc** · 23-05-2017

Looking good there, keep it up.

I'm also getting into F360 and it has not disappointed me yet. I can't see myself going back to Vectric Cut2D, unless some very simple job comes up.

When you flip the part to machine the other side how are you aligning it? Looks like you are using the profile witness mark in the sacrificial board and aligning by eye?

**Zeeflyboy** · 23-05-2017

tah!

Yeah I love fusion, it's absolutely brilliant to me - the modelling is fantastic but the machining side is extremely powerful and well-featured imo, and being able to jump straight from modelling into machining, back again to tweak something and then just having to re-generate the tool path to get the updated tool path is brill.

Flipping the parts varies between the parts, I use dowel pins or the bolt holes, and yes the interior witness line is very useful for checking everything is perfect when just using the bolt holes for alignment if you are careful.