Either way there are a few starting points that might work for you.
Cutting sheet metal with a cnc router.
It does not produce mechanical extrusion or mechanical stress on the material no tool wear is non toxic and rarely causes environmental pollution.
The textbook cutting speed for aluminum using a carbide tool is about 1 500 surface feet per minute at the high end and 1 000 at the lower end.
A metal cutting cnc router is used to engrave metal.
The laser is processed by a non mechanical tool.
When it comes to non ferrous metal fabrication axyz offer an unbeatable range of high performance routing and engraving machines suited to a wide variety of applications.
Metal fabrication made easy with an axyz cnc router.
Short video to follow up on the how about steel questions.
And some thoughts on accuracy.
1 3x2 5m 4 5kw spindle the machine is especially designed for metal cutting and can be used to cut stainless steel iron copper acrylic wood.
Spetool 1 8 end mills for aluminum 1 16 cutting diameter 3 flutes cnc spiral router bits for aluminum cut non ferrous metal upcut 1 5 inches long 5 pieces 4 2 out of 5 stars 15 21 95 21.
A homemade hobby router will be very different from a large router that s professionally built for aerospace composites.
Spetool 1 4 shank carbide end mill for aluminum cut 3 flutes 3 5 inch long non ferrous metal upcut cnc spiral router bit 4 1 out of 5 stars 54 17 68 17.
Stainless steel metal cutting router bits end mills burr bits solid carbide spiral router bits end mills for steel stainless steel non ferrous metal more excellent for a broad range of materials varying from non ferrous materials aluminum brass copper etc low carbon steel stainless steel and exotics such as titaninum.
