It’s been a long time coming and it’s finally here. The first class that is open to everyone will be March 25th and I will be creating another event for the 28th. I have created the Eventbrite and tickets will go live at 8PM. They are $50 and this is to offset usage fees. We plan on using fees from the classes to pay for more end mills, spoil boards and anything else that may come up. This is very similar to the way the Haas Mill class works. We decided not to charge per usage as we didn’t want people to unsafely rush/use the machine. This isn’t to say it will be this way forever. If we find there is abuse of this (you decide to start a cabinet shop operation and run the machine 14 hours a day) we reserve the right to review this.
That being said, The class will cover importing a file to V Carve Pro, setting up tool paths and exporting them to our machine. Everything you will need to know to get you started making signs, cutting out shapes and so on.
From then you will have to prove you know how to use the machine with a test file. This will grant you supervised access till it is deemed by the supervisors that you know how to run the machine.
Plastics and Aluminum will be covered in a later class along with 3D carving.
Please post all questions here so that answers can be seen by others.
-Alex