#Spine Design
magic birch
Alright, so I have it, I've inspected it and gotten a good sense of this item's structure. Can you refresh me on the question/need you had with it?
desert karma
Basically just what strategy to use re: work holding and setup
That's what I'm planning
magic birch
So this is a place you're gonna need more degrees of movement than a typical makerspace mill (not out of realm of possibility, but unlikely). What I'd recommend is shaping all but your threads an holds with a fairly standard 2.5D CNC on a flip mount (enabling you to ensure the bottom void is properly aligned), then building jigs do to the drilling manually OR build support jigs to let a mill or CNC drill those out for you. The threaading is likely going to be best just hand tapped (though some mills will have tap attachments, you could use support jigs to support the part for that).
desert karma
Don't think that head tilt would get the job done?
There's also access to a rotary table, but I think work holding would be problematic if I want to be able to e.g. flip the part end-for-end to get matching angles
I don't necessarily need CNC, although if I can get the profile and void cut CNC it would save a fair bit of trouble
magic birch
Definitely consider doing your shape out with CNC then. If you can cut to general shape, CNC specific shape, then use tilt head or jigg for the holes, I think you'll be looking good.