Community Fridays
Community Fridays at the Columbia Gorge Regional Skills Center offer aspiring makers the chance to utilize the tools and know–how available in CGCC's 3D printing, welding, and CNC milling labs.
Community Fridays:
3D printing, welding, and CNC Lab Open Access
Join us for Community Fridays, a unique opportunity for people with a basic understanding of 3D printing, welding, and/or CNC processes to utilize our state-of-the-art labs and collaborate with experienced instructors.
Community Fridays are for everyone, from hobbyists eager to bring their creative projects to life, to companies looking to rapidly prototype and refine ideas for new products or parts that can enhance manufacturing efficiency.
Participants can take advantage of our equipment to experiment, troubleshoot, and perfect their designs, and work through challenges and discover optimizations with the support of our knowledgeable staff.
Whether you're fine-tuning a personal project or developing a component to streamline industrial processes, Community Fridays provides a hands-on, collaborative environment to advance your skills and achieve your goals.
When: Every Friday, 9 am - 5 pm
Where: The Dalles Campus, Building 5, (Columbia Gorge Regional Skills Center), 400 East Scenic Drive, The Dalles, OR
Campus map – (look for Building 5 on the map, park in front of Building 3 and walk down)
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- Gas Tungsten Arc Welding equipment
- Shielded Metal Arc Welding equipment
- Gas Metal Arch Welding equipment
- Shear
- Sheet metal bender
- CNC plasma machines
- Laser engraving
- Plastic and resin 3D printing equipment
- Manual milling equipment
- CNC milling equipment
- CNC lathe equipment
- Small format CNC waterjet