It is on the final pocketing pass, and it will probably be working on the countour cutting operation to free the disc by the time I finish writing this blog. My emblem is cutting with one of these endmills right now. These should be sturdier, and they should cut more quickly than my 1/16” mills, so I figured I’d give them a try! That’s about 25% larger in diameter than my 1/16” endmills, and also just small enough to cut my Kestrel frames. When I was shopping at Banggood, I came across a 10-pack of 2mm carbide endmills. They get dull quickly, but everything dulls quickly when cutting carbon fiber! I’d rather dull cheap mills, right? They seem to work as well as nicer mills. I’ve been using cheap 1/16” endmills when cutting drone frames out of carbon fiber. I didn’t buy these endmills for machining aluminum. It is less detailed than the Demoman’s stickybomb emblem, and once I scaled it up enough, it looked like I would have no trouble carving it with a 2mm endmill! My cheap 2mm endmills So I decided to keep my first carve into aluminum simple. Even if I knew how to do it correctly, I’m not sure things would line up. I’m not smart enough to somehow combine a vcarve pass and a pocketing pass with a different bit. It only wanted to run my v-bit near the edges of the SVG. I converted a Demoman emblem to an SVG, imported it into Carbide Create, and tried to figure out how to carve that sucker out.
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