Peter Parfitt – Bandeja de herramientas

My X-Carve is mounted in a purpose-built enclosure with a pair of drawers for the various CNC bits and pieces. I wanted to keep the drawers tidy and so this simple project provides a means of organising and presenting my various CNC cutters.

The organiser is a simple slab of walnut (but any wood could be used) which precisely fits the width of one of my drawers. I used a piece of walnut which had been left over from a project some time ago. I buy much of my material from a company called Timbersource who specialise in small orders placed through their web site and delivered within 3 working days by courier.

Using VCarve Pro I was able to design the layout, size and depth of the recesses needed to accommodate each of the cutters. The design process and toolpath creation took about 25 minutes and I have produced a video of the complete process. The work was completed using Universal G-Code Sender (UGCS) to relay the toolpath information and control the cutting on the CNC.Utilicé solo dos fresas de punta esférica, una de 9,5 mm de diámetro y la otra de 6,35 mm. VCarve Pro gestionó los parámetros de corte automáticamente. Me gusta mucho la sencillez del entorno de diseño y la posibilidad de crear trayectorias de herramienta al instante y visualizarlas en 3D antes de enviarlas a la máquina CNC. La nueva función de copia de trayectorias de matriz de VCarve Pro me resultó especialmente útil, ya que me permitió crear una matriz de elementos, lo que me ahorró muchísimo tiempo en la fase de diseño.