First Time CNC Programmer Does The Unthinkable | Machining | Vlog #73

I just machined the first operation on eight building blocks in the last two days. Boom. If you like this video, go ahead and click the like or subscribe button. If you want to learn more and see more things from the Academy, put it in the comments. Boom. Hi, my name's Katie. I work for Kenna Metal as an engineer in product engineering. Kenna Metal gave me this great opportunity to come here out to Titan Shop to work with his team, to work on the building blocks. Uh, Katie, what's up? Not much. How are you? Oh, I'm good. I'm good. So in the last couple of days, you actually machined eight different parts on the first operation. Yeah. Amazing. So I went on to the Titans of CNC Academy website and I did all of the tutorials for all 10 of the building blocks, flew out here and then machined them and it was awesome. I was really nervous about making CAM programs because it seems really intimidating and it seems super complex, but using the Academy was really great. The videos walk you through step-by-step from drawing to CAM programming, everything that you need to know, they tell you exactly what to do. So they're really easy to follow, just amazing videos. And then we basically just gave you the Kenna Metal tools, the shunk vice, and you just locked and loaded, zeroed all the tools yourself, zeroed everything, all your offsets. Yep. Put all the material in myself. Did it all. That's awesome. So I started with the Titan 1M. It has threads and a pocket. It's pretty simple to start with, but still a great part. And then the Titan 2M, it has slots and holes with threads. But it went from 10-32s to quarter 20s. Yes. That's awesome. Titan 3M with an O-ring groove and it's a circle now instead of a square. So it's a little different and still a pocket and holes with threads. So this is the Titan 4M. It's a little different because it's a triangle and it has these keyway cutter slots, which I thought looked really intimidating, but then after doing it, it was like super easy. Really cool to say that I did that because I thought it would be really hard. Definitely, I don't think I would have done this without the videos. So this was really cool. Titan 5M, it's actually my favorite part just because it's a star. I think I like it. It's really different because with the star and you also get to do the engraving of the eagle logo. So that was really sweet. And then I machined the Titan 7M, which is an L-bracket. So this one was really fun to make because we just cut away a ton of material, made some chips. It was awesome. You guys speed it up. Yes. Right? Yeah, we did speed that one up. So this is the Titan 8M. It's like goggles, which is pretty fun. It really just looks like goggles. I thought this was a fun one to make too with the circles and the pockets. And this one was kind of scary too at first to machine because it has the keyway inside this pocket, but at the end it was really fun. That's awesome. And then number nine, that's a step up right there. Yeah. So this is the 9M with the 3D profiles, 3D ball tracking. This was really fun. There's tracing along the outside and then you do different types of 3D contouring on the ends and in the pocket. So this was a really cool part to learn. You actually got to learn about a lot of different features inside Fusion making this part. So this was a cool one to make. It's really easy to go right back to back and do them all together because I really got in the groove by the end of it. We did the last one really quickly. That's awesome. So if you had advice to kids or teachers or anybody wanting to learn, what kind of advice would you have? I would say just, if you want to do it, commit to it and do it. Just take the time, do it all at once. You'll get the hang of it. Even if it seems intimidating, just go for it and get it done. And just like Katie, if you don't have a machine right where you're at that you can actually use for the building blocks, knock out all the designs, knock out all the programming, dial it in and then look for a small group or a school or a shop that will allow you to actually use their machine to finish off the parts. And then your skills will go up. All right. So now you finished with the building blocks. What's next? The rocket. The rocket. 10 different pieces that assemble a rocket. Boom. And then you can jump up to fixturing and aerospace. Boom. Making it happen. Katie, great job. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Of course. We enjoyed it. Boom. We are out. Yep.