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We're glad you took something away from the video. Thanks for watching!

Wayne, you must have blocked out when we worked together at Packers Supply. Because I blocked out Empco. : ) It's nice to see you're doing well, and we both have beards. Hit our website and shoot me an email. We can catch up then.

Hey man! If you ever need or just want to scan and print something, drop by anytime. : )

Yeah, we are a job shop. Right now, we are machining custom motorcycle mirrors on it. Check our profile for our website. Then you can email us anything you'd like to have quoted.

It works, but it's not cheaper than a dedicated scanning spray. And your shops smells like foot powered haha. We have a more in-depth video coming out on Scanning Sprays in the next couple weeks.

@@IMEEMADE Thanks! We enjoy your channel too : )

Hey man, it's called Refelecon. Just bought like 300 bucks worth of this stuff to try it out. So far, it great. This link is the only place I have found it. astinc.us/online-store/

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If you have some downtime, running jaws could be beneficial. Consider it this way: producing 20 jaws costs about $138. With our shop rate at $100+ per hour, if I managed to buy materials, program, set up, and run those 20 jaws in an hour, it would save us some money. However, our machines generate more revenue when they're running parts for our customers. Whether the savings are worth it compared to the potential earnings depends on your shop's specific situation.

Just saying I've never worked at a shop that bought soft jaws. we would take a hour to run some in-between jobs, or when it got slow. Almost all the jobs I set up and run are in soft jaws.

Thanks for watching and the well thought out comment.

We have made ton of Jaws through the years : ) If you got the time on the machines, that's a great option for sure.

We are using Fusion 360. It is amazing! It would have been more completed and expensive to start our business without it.

Is that amount in Japanese Yen? : )

@ChipMonkeys can make that shit all day in a manual bridgeport mill lol

Don’t tell my customer that!!! They paid me! : -)

if it's avaliable, it probably isn't if they are paying to have it manufactured.

And if it is available, don’t send the link to my customer! It sounded like they had exhausted their search for this tiny little part.

Chipshack sells them in bulk last time I saw em they were like 11cents each without electrodes and I think around 30 with

I typically burn myself about one or two times while using these things.

Probably a router

it's a milling machine.

Sorry, I should have used voice isolation. But I thought it was good to have the background shop noise.

Yeah, hopefully it won't take the fun out of making parts : ) Thanks for watching!

Good questions. If you use Fusion 360, you can download the 3D Model from our site. It has the history of the modeling changes. Shell is just the perimeter passes, or Thickness of the walls. After we shelled the part, there can be no infill. But, the slicer will add Support material to the inside. This is a technique that allows you to reduce material, target stress points, and decrease cycle times for production runs. Thanks for watching!

Yeah, I put this video together with my laptop, and the speakers were blown. We have improved our audio : ) Thanks for watching!

While cloudNC does not quote the part, you can get an approximate cycle time in a few seconds with it. : ) It’s still a big time saver. Definitely worth a trial run.

ToolPath does quoting and it is only $799 per year.

@@cwelch5725 I didn't know it was out of beta?

@@ChipMonkeys They are taking subscribers now. I just signed up.

@@cwelch5725 That's awesome! I have been really impressed so far.

Yes, but at this point, it is probably better for them to be prepared for the real world. : )

That's a really good question. Is it good automation software, or is it really leveraging Ai? CloudNC has on their site that it is the "Worlds First Ai solution for CNC Machining." I asked Ai to draw me a picture of a CNC Milling center. There were lasers and like 10 piece wearing construction hard hats and the mill was a 6 axis ABB robot. I have my doubts. : )

Thanks man! We have some Motorcycle parts we will be running in a few episodes. Let us know if you have any suggestions!

I agree! I just hope it doesn't take the fun out of machining.

Guys? I only see two young boys??

That's a good point. We are looking forward to making more Ai videos to cover aspects of using Ai like that. Particularly 3+2 production parts. There can be a lot of editing for some parts, but 2-1/2 D is pretty solid if you have good geometry. That's why we picked this part for the video. It required No editing. I'm running a production job now using CloudNC, and I used most of the operations. There was a lot of editing, but it was faster overall. I agree about the time, aspect. Ai is quick on programming, but is it more work to edit it than just program it yourself. Right now, that depends on the part and geometry. Thanks for your well thought-out comment!

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Good point! This is just the first video of many. Both Programs use the speeds and feeds that are setup in the tool library. They also use the step-overs / depth of cuts if they are defined in the tool library. So, you do have some control over the finish and tool life. Thanks for a great comment! We will incorporate that in a future video.

You're not wrong! That's the same question I asked myself. I remember using FeatureCAM back in 2000, and it had "Automatic feature recognition." This is way beyond that. Toolpath Labs can even build the setups, pick the tools, then make the operations for milling and drilling of complicated features... Selecting the geometry. Right now, it can be a time saver, or waister haha. In a few years, programming machine tools could be very automated. It won't work for everything, like parts that get flimsy. Thanks for the realistic comment!

@@ChipMonkeys thx for your answer! I was more talking about proper automation tools like hyperMILL has available for example. Simple feature recognition and applying a pre defined job sequence is no rocket science 😅(and I don’t wanna talk this down, I know how many possibilities and how much work is already in that). I’m more talking about stuff like starting your software remotely, pulling geometry and information from somewhere on a server, choosing fixtures based on the model and available stocks, create the setups, and so on.. after all of that comes the point where toolpaths have to be created, but what’s with the rest of the process^^ there is the true power hidden for me! Nevertheless, these tools do focus on a big need as there are many many shops still up to today that are not using any kind of automation. And these shops also don’t have the stuff that could handle it to built up something like this. Interesting topic, let’s see where it will go