Dylan Banera

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CNC plates, programmed by hand

6061 aluminum plates, a smiley face among them, that I CNC-milled from G-code I wrote by hand with subprograms and L repeats.

Date
Feb 2025
Media
9 photos · 2 videos
Material
6061 aluminum (the plates)
Programming
G-code written by hand, with subprograms and L repeats
Disciplines
CNC Machining
Fig. 01The smiley-face plateEnlarge

Notes

These are CNC-milled plates in 6061 aluminum, and I programmed every one by hand: I wrote the G-code myself, with subprograms and L repeats for the repeated features.

The smiley-face plate was faced, then pocketed around a round island with the eyes, nose and smile cut into it, contoured, and drilled with a hole in each corner. The other plates have circular and angled pockets, counterbored bolt patterns, slots, hole grids and milled lettering, and one has my name and DMT 84B engraved on its edge.

The rest are more parts I machined: a pair of profiled side plates with a roller and two sleeves, and a stepped block marked out with layout fluid and scribed centre lines. The clips show a CNC mill pocketing a block with flood coolant, and face milling on a Kitamura CNC machining center.

Photos and videos

10 figures

Fig. 02Circular pocket with a counterbored bolt circle and a hole grid
Fig. 03Milled N and C outlines, triangles and a circle of holes
Fig. 04A pocket with angled corners and a hole pattern, and two rows of holes in a slot
Fig. 05Slots, counterbored holes and a chamfered corner
Clip 0:11
Fig. 06Face milling on a Kitamura CNC machining center, with flood coolant
Video 0:22
Fig. 07Pocketing a block in the vise, with flood coolant
Fig. 08A stepped pocket with drilled holes, and counterbores at each end
Fig. 09My name and DMT 84B engraved on the edge of a plate
Fig. 10Two profiled side plates, a roller, two sleeves and a small block
Fig. 11A stepped block with layout fluid and scribed centre lines