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Creating a flip jig

Creating a flip jig

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Creating a flip jig

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Now a discussion of flip billing wouldn't be complete unless we talked about what we actually need to do to the bed of the CNC machine to get things working correctly. So here's my mock up CNC and you can see that I've added these two pieces of wood down here and screwed them down. And, this is our float jig. Now it's not complete until I go ahead and run a cut on it with a CNC machine. So, I'm going to put two pieces of wood in. I don't know, maybe at least 50% of the length of the stock itself. And we're going to use these to register the lower left hand corner at a particular spot. You'll also notice that I've screwed this down off center, because I'm going to cut away some of this wood, and I want my screws to be well away of the cut. Now because I can't represent a more complex piece of stock like this in RhinoCAM, I've just mocked this out. So this essentially describes the cut I'm going to make because we've talked about this in two and a half axis cutting, you can either do…

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