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Looking for Onshape/CAM professional for consulting gig
eric_schimelpfenig
Member Posts: 75 EDU
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Hey all! I was recently contacted by a furniture company that's acquired an older pod and rail CNC machine. They also have a 5 axis machine that's in use. They use these machines to create furniture on an assembly line. It's a very old company that's been doing things mostly by hand forever and they're getting into CNC automation now.
They used to oursource all of their CNC work, and they bought the CNC machine from the shop that they outsourced to since they went out of business. They were expecting all of their part programs to be on the machine, but apparently they are not.
What they're looking for is someone to built their models in CAD, and then set them up with some CAM software to run their jobs.
They neither have CAD, or CAM software at the moment.
I'd set them up with our CAM software, but it's not setup for 5 axis yet, which is part of what they need.
So here's the ask: Is there anyone out there with this sort of experience that would be interested in taking this on as a consulting gig? It sounds like you'd get to choose the software stack since they don't own anything yet. I can make the connection if someone here is interested.
Perhaps @MichaelPascoe?
They used to oursource all of their CNC work, and they bought the CNC machine from the shop that they outsourced to since they went out of business. They were expecting all of their part programs to be on the machine, but apparently they are not.
What they're looking for is someone to built their models in CAD, and then set them up with some CAM software to run their jobs.
They neither have CAD, or CAM software at the moment.
I'd set them up with our CAM software, but it's not setup for 5 axis yet, which is part of what they need.
So here's the ask: Is there anyone out there with this sort of experience that would be interested in taking this on as a consulting gig? It sounds like you'd get to choose the software stack since they don't own anything yet. I can make the connection if someone here is interested.
Perhaps @MichaelPascoe?
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Here are some things I have learned that they might be helpful.
5-axis CAM software:
Cabinet CAM software: (also see the attached report)
Here is one of the reasons I prefer Onshape when modeling furniture:
The models are completely configurable "adjustable". You can build anything to be like this. Here is an old model model I made, configurations can be much better looking now.
Please see the attached cabinet software report.
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