Not having any CNC experience, I figured that there was no better way to learn CNC than to start playing around with it.  What better way to play with it than to see what kind of things I can make associated with the RV...

Here is what my setup ended up looking like.

The first thing I did is bring over a simple drawing of a Van's Air Force logo and re-draw it in Corel Draw.  From Corel Draw (A vector graphic design package), I brought into BobCAD software.  BobCAD generates the CNC code for the mill in order to cut the parts.

Again, this is a simple logo in some scrap aluminum angle.

Not bad...  Looks pretty good actually.

This was my first attempt to cut out letters and numbers.  This was a True Type Font which is basically a letter drawn in an outline form.  All other software knows to fill in between the lines so that it looks like solid letter.  However, the CAD software just interprets this as an outline and told the mill to cutout that outline.  You can see there was a glitch with the number "2".  Otherwise, doesn't look to bad.

One of the other things I have going on in the back of my mind is cutting out my own instrument panel.  I obtained a DXF file of a steam gage altimeter and generated the code for the mill to cut that out too.  Here the mill is starting to cut out the instrument hole.

Looks good, but how is the fit?

Just a closer view.

The mounting holes line up and look good.  The overall cutout looks good, BUT....

Here you can see the CAD file I took from web has a little to be desired.  What is with these HUGE gaps here???

I adjusted the CAD file and cutout another sample.  Again, the large cutout looks good, the mounting holes look good, and the adjustment cutout looks great too.

You couldn't cut that out by hand and be that accurate.  I might just cutout my own instrument panel yet.

Then I moved on to making some wheel chocks...  Here is a sample I made.  This looks pretty good.  On the back side of the this angle, I just cut lightening holes.

On the angle for the back side of the tire chock, I cut the N number of the airplane.  This is a single line font that was supplied with the CAD software.  This looks pretty good (better than the True Type Font) cutout I had above.

Everyday I play with this mill, I find new applications for this thing.