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How to square up stock in a cnc milling machine

How to Square Up Stock in a CNC Milling Machine

by Bill Griggs
in Blog, CNC
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  How To Square Up Stock     In the CNC work shop one of the first tasks a machinist must learn to do well is how to square up stock in a cnc milling machine. Squared up stock has all sides parallel to their opposite side and all angles perpendicular to adjacent sides.     Using Square stock allows you to create parts that mate well together. It is impossible to repeatedly create parts without starting from squared up stock. Since one of the reasons we use CNC milling machines is to create multiples identical parts, it only makes […]