Then on to a mock assembly to make sure it looks ok:





Perfect, a solid accurate level frame with enough room underneath the table for housing the control, pc, drives, tooling etc. Finally I laid the aluminium extrusion profile I’m using for the machine table on top:





Next up is to finalise the design for the hardened linear rails, linear bearing guide blocks, ball screws and stepper motors; that said I can then cut this profile to suit, and make the carriage for the x axis as shown atop the sketch:


Sit down time with a good bottle of ale:


Hopefully when its complete I’ll be able to mill 2D images to 3D, and produce high precision parts.

Thanks.