Description
Second round with the Makera Z1: installing the 4-axis module, milling a scanned face, a bottle opener in aluminium, squaring stock with hand-typed AI G-code, one crash into the chuck, Broken bit, and a mountain that failed in 4-axis and came out great in 3-axis.
Coming from 15+ years of 3D printing, the big lesson was offsets, margins and work origins – things slicers hide from you. Here's what went wrong and what fixed it.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:04 Preparing for 4 axis
3:23 Learning Curves
4:52 Milling my face results
6:12 Beer and Aluminum
9:00 Taste good and plug
9:30 4 axis aluminum problems
11:54 3 axis mountain success
14:41 Lessons and outro
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