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Title: Milling your own plates
Post by: TomahawkLabs on Fri, 04 December 2020, 08:58:11

I and currently building my CNC (finally got time after these home updates got done) and my goal was to create a full size and TKL + Numpad Apple M3501. I plan on handwiring the first few boards while I learn KiCAD and hopefully would like to create a blank PCB that can have a teensy soldered on rather than a production board.

Does anyone create their own CNC and build their own custom or prototype boards? If so, what tools do you use to design/create the plates? My Thought was to create plates 100% in Fusion360 and use that as the CAD and CAM program.

Title: Re: Milling your own plates
Post by: Atomical on Mon, 07 December 2020, 00:34:20

Fusion 360 is good, there's lots of tutorials online that will help you out. And it has built in CAM software that will allow you to export tool paths and g-code to your cnc milling machine.