How to Design Parts for CNC Machining

I this video, I will go over some of the top tips and tricks on how you can improve your designs and decrease cost while optimizing for manufacturing on a CNC milling process. I’ll cover everything from fillets, chamfers, setups, drilling, tapping, undercuts and even text. Shortcut links are for everything below. Full article posted on my website below. 00:28 - CNC Milling Machine 01:06 - Common Cutting Tools 01:52 - End Mill Deflection 02:39 - Internal Fillets 03:05 - Fillet Specifics 03:37 - Dogbone Corners 03:45 - Feature Height 04:00 - Threads and Tapping 04:36 - Raw Stock Size 05:01 - Chamfers 05:31 - Setups 06:07 - External Fillets 06:28 - Isolate Tight Tolerance Areas 06:47 - Drilling 07:15 - Bottom Floor Fillets 07:38 - Edge Break Fillets 07:56 - Edge Drilling 08:21 - 3D Surfacing 08:41 - Undercuts 08:58 - Text 09:18 - Bad Example Part 09:47 - Fixing a Bad Part 10:09 - Price Comparison of Good and Bad Part 10:19 - Good