How to cut a sheet of aluminum?

[AaronMatthews]

Cut fast and shallow. Like crazy shallow.
The aluminum you have is really thin so… 2? passes.

And make sure your clamping is good!

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I did a quick test of using pocket strategy to do the profile cut in a unused space on the material. I made a offset outline 40% of the bit diameter around my test object (bat symbol) and did a pocket cut with a 40% step over so it would do it in 2 passes. Cut at .39mm depth, 1016 mm/min, 18,000 rpm I wet with WD40 and vacuumed up chips I did the pocket cut for the first 90% of the material, then switched to a traditional profile strategy with tabs for the remainder. I could not make tabs au…