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Fusion 360 was not intuitive, it has a real learning curve, and its constant evolution makes finding the correct solution to solving any issues you may be facing harder as there is a multitude of 'answers' that are potentially out of date and no longer relevant to the version you are using. BUT...

Houston, the Eagle has landed... My wife (who I have long suspected is an android of some kind, as she is way stronger than me despite being half my weight) assisted me to lift and couple the heavy plate to the stand. I gave the top a preliminary scrub and inspection and found nothing of any...

I promised some time ago for a full reveal of the Magless Mag-Drill (now with a genuine magnet) and although there are still things I want to add to it, it is serving its primary function... making holes in stuff. There's a lot to take in here, I'll start at the bottom. This is the T-Slot...

Well, she's a bit rough around the edges... I usually clean everything up before taking photos, but this just showed up and I thought I'd document it before I started scrubbing off the years. What you are looking at is the TAC spindle I was talking about, torn out of the rusting corpse of...

Yep, that's what it is. How it made it here to Japan I don't know, but it was super cheap and came with a nice Omron programmable timer as a bonus. If you look back through the thread you will see I have been building a 'magless mag-drill' which is no longer sans magnet. I made a spacer for...

Another shot of the mystery sub-module assembled. I'm sure you've seen one of these a million times, just in a different context. The 3D printed enclosure came out pretty good, although the wall extrusion consistency isn't as good as I want. Either a partially clogged nozzle or I need to improve...

Anyone want to venture to guess what this is about? 😜 While I was waiting for that enclosure to print, I disassembled and cleaned both of the big vises. The latest one was in even better condition finish wise, but showed more signs of use. It has a few apprentice marks, but pretty minor...

Aluminum Lego are the best Lego! This is M8 Profile, meaning it is based on a 40mm base unit width and its multiples and uses sturdy M8 fasteners. Even though I took the time to painstakingly align all the edges, it still went together in a flash. These parts were drop shipped from the NIC...

My wife wasn't crazy about my plan to put the massive cast Iron surface plate on my (heavily reinforced) Ikea table, she wasn't wrong. Earthquakes are a thing here, and I wasn't enthusiastic about the idea of having a 150 kilos of machine just just waiting to crush my legs due to poor choices in...

It's just a baby!

I wondered what that flat was for when I saw one of these! Very clever. These clockwork style meters are the Queens of 3 axis indication. BIG Daishawa/Kaiser make a new one as well. It's a subtle thing, but these type of meters indicate the actual exact center line whereas most probes you have...

Hello, my name is Bakafish and it has been exactly one day since I bought a Japan Automatic Machines precision vise... :Help:

The highest end industrial systems do use laser sensors, but just for the tool offset checking. They deploy a small laser and photoreceptor array through a little door, slowly rotate the tool between the beam and the imaging sensors and are able to determine the exact length, diameter and shape...

So if you've read anything I've previously written, you know I bounce around a lot. Today we're going to cover my latest CNC related obsessive disorder, probing. With any Cartesian device it is really important to know where you are, and with some of them it is also important to know where the...

There are 3 basic options for a home CNC as I see it: 1) Buy a new or used classic milling machine and add automation. 2) Buy a turnkey system, ranging from hobbyist to industrial grade. 3) Make a custom machine from components. If I was living anywhere other than Tokyo I suspect would be...

Makita's router rail adaptor is very good, and cheap. I documented my solution to your quandary in my thread. If I were to do it differently, I might drill the holes directly in my rail the way Festool does to ease using bottom mounted reference bars so reversing the direction was less painful...

I don't want to be the guy telling people what they already know, especially if they have a different understanding. I'm trying to explain this in the same way I would if I was telling a smart friend who is in a completely different field of work. I just worry that the GJ regulars are way ahead...

I find it really difficult for me to not constantly make biological analogies when I think about how to explain the parts of my CNC project. I don't think it is particularly helpful since if I explain the function, the analogy is superfluous and likely kind of wrong anyway. I know a lot of you...

I'd repaint the needles, and leave the dial faces themselves alone (other than a good cleaning.)

I finally got my second jab. The health care system here in Japan is light years ahead of what we had in the US in so many ways, the costs are so low you wouldn't believe how little they are compared to the states. It's a public system, with tight integration with businesses who ensure yearly...