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    Making a front panel for my CNC controller has been high on the list of things to do for some months now with other things getting in the way, but finally found the time to get the job done, designed in Fusion360 it was too big in the Y direction to do the lot with one set up. The edges of my spoil board are pretty much square to each other so aligning the panel on the spoil board for each operation for an easy thing.


    With two setups/operations I needed two files so a second copy of the Fusion360 file was saved with a different file name, working with one file I rotated the panel 90deg anticlockwise and defined the 2 toolpaths for the engraving and then the for the bored switch holes, the same procedure was used for the bottom engraving etc with the other Fusion360 file, the engraving was done with a 3/16 centre drill 0.5mm deep in one pass, no detectable burr, a squirt of CRC as cutting fluid. The square cutout for the actual controller was also done in a similar with 2 operations as it was slightly over the max travel of my Y axis.


    Rewired the spindle control so I can either have auto operation where the spindle speed/stop/start are done by the controller or manual human control, I also fitted an alternate set of jog buttons, wired to the controller external control inputs, the probe input socket is a small aviation style connector mounted on the side next to the MPG cable entry point, the probe can be either a tool height probe or a 3D edge finder type.
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