always remember too that you can sacrifice depth of cut for feed rate on your roughing passes i think at 1kw you might not get quite the feed you are looking for at full depth but it sounds like you are on the right track :) i also agree that the 6061 will definitely need some sort of coolant
-- jeremy youngs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Check out the most recent posts - join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users