Need advise on CNC production.

[JONEK]

Good day.

I have a design that I need produced but I am clueless to the production side using CNC. I need to sort out how to produce this at high volume. I may begin with about 50 to 100 pieces. however, if the design proves itself for further production, I may need several thousand.

Firstly, I have no idea what CNC process to use - 4-axis / 5-axis? I designed the wood piece in Fusion 360.

Also, I should add that I am wanting to use solid wood - preferable birch - at 6.5mm thick.

As you can from the layout, there is the general shape - but with the additional drill holes that need to be accurate.

Would love some advice!

Jon

 

[deema]

First off, wood isn’t going to enable you to machine to those dimensions, I appreciate you haven’t given any tolerances, but assuming you really need position and hole diameter to be specified down to 10 microns I’m assuming a suitably tight tolerance are also required.

 

[Kayen]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking for exactly - do you have a CNC, or are you intending to buy one?

If you haven't already got a CNC I would suggest outsourcing the manufacture - off the top of my head I would have thought a fiver each, which is a lot less of an investment than the £2000 minimum for a small but accurate CNC.

Why solid Birch? I don't think it's as readily available as other woods like Ash (strong and stable) or maple (hard and light).

I don't know what tolerances you're working to, but 89.94 could be 90.27 the next day!

 

[ChaiLatte]

Is the hole in the top face supposed to be central?

It is dimensioned 11.09mm in one view and the overall width is given as 22.33mm.