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That is some impressive CAD work that had to have been done to get to the CAM stage.
Years ago, I went to Wright-Patterson in Dayton and got a guided tour of their machine shop courtesy of my wife's cousin....they had a five-axis CAM that would mill the turbine blades for jet engines....HUGE machine capable of milling parts 4 or 5 feet in diameter.....they had to cut up the slab, pour a concrete base 8' deep to ensure that the machine did not move a micrometer when it was in use. I was slack-jawed.
BTW, they had there the reverse winged F-16 that they used to see if it would work. The plane could only fly with its computers. Guess it didn't work too hot as they never made another one.
Years ago, I went to Wright-Patterson in Dayton and got a guided tour of their machine shop courtesy of my wife's cousin....they had a five-axis CAM that would mill the turbine blades for jet engines....HUGE machine capable of milling parts 4 or 5 feet in diameter.....they had to cut up the slab, pour a concrete base 8' deep to ensure that the machine did not move a micrometer when it was in use. I was slack-jawed.
BTW, they had there the reverse winged F-16 that they used to see if it would work. The plane could only fly with its computers. Guess it didn't work too hot as they never made another one.
