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Why use CNC milling?

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Why use CNC milling?

- [Instructor] If the model builder has so many tools and materials available, why use CNC Milling to create your site model and not 3D printing, laser cutting, or even hand sculpting? The main reasons come down to cost and quality. The most common type of site model I see outside of my own practice is a laser cut stack typography model. With this method, you laser cut individual sheets of topography out of usually affordable material like chipboard, and then take those sheets and stack them on top of each other to construct your site mass. Although the material for this fabrication method is really cost-effective, you usually make up for the saved cost with the amount of assembly labor required. When you laser cut your site model, you're usually paying for three phases of labor. First, you have to make your laser cut files. Then you have to use those files to laser cut your material. And finally, you have to…

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