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Denford CNC Micromill 2000 with CNC VR software



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Making PCB's On the Micromill
(WIP)

To make a PCB on the micromill, you need three things: 1. A jig to hold down the PCB (there is a generic on in the Space) 2. A PCB milling bit 3. A PCB design in Gerber format (and the drills output as well)

First you should fit the PCB milling bit into the mill. This is as simple as unscrew the collet and remove any bits that have been left in the mill. Put these to one side somewhere safe. Fit the PCB bit and tight the collet (finger tight only at this point).



Fit your PCB to the jig and fit the jig + PCB into the bed on the mill. Make sure they are fitted firmly and that there is no movement in them at all. Once this fitted, turn on the laptop that controls the mill. You can do this or install the mill software onto your own laptop. You will require a serial port (or USB to serial converter).

The Micromill Software
The mill comes with dedicated Windows software. This is fairly comprehensive, but a bit of a pain in the bum at times. The mill accepts gcode, and in the software you can either feed it gcode directly, or get it to calculate the gcode automagically.

The is also experimental Linux software here: https://zi.is/p/browser/gcode2mint