Millable: A Tool to CNC Better
As a mechanical engineer, you sometimes must design products to be made on a CNC. One of the main concerns for that design is deciding what material you should use based on the stock you need. This tool is made to help with that. By inputting the dimensions of your cuboid stock, the number of part flips that need to occur, the number of setups you have, the average size of your tooling, your budget for materials, and how important strength is for the design, this tool will calculate a representative value for each of three commonly used metals: Aluminum 6061, Bronze 360, and 304 Stainless Steel. It calculates this using industry standard prices of the metals, hardness values to represent strength, and a simple time calculation based on your given design complexity.
Here is a link to my google drive where you can watch the video of why this is useful and how it is used: Watch Here!
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IM_FZMPRZA_kj9SIQAu-6LcctLIsPC1t/view?usp=sharing)