Nesting Creates a Milling Challenge
This job shop uses remaining steel stock to hold a mated pair of aircraft parts.
Here is side one of the nested set of parts, with a little of the shape of the parts becoming visible.
Here is side two, with the two parts rising up out of the steel block. The channel between these two parts is a difficult feature to machine efficiently.
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