3D Modeling and FEA of a MaxNC mini-mill, Let's look at making it more rigid.
Channel: Josh AQ
Date: 10/11/2017

I took the time to Model the the MaxNC in Inventor 2018. I then ramble on about my thoughts on how we might improve rigidity. I still have not come up with a solid plan... this is more of an outline of how to tackle this. I still need to do more testing of the "Before" so that when I do the "After" we can see definite results. Feel free to download and try your hand at this as well. I did not model the gibs on the ways or lead screws as I was more worried about FEA analysis than completeness. 

Link to all model files and to the single assembly .STP file: 

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EKM9qyrqTbqWmdsY_fYxK0FUObg6h3Xx?usp=sharing