designing my new cnc mill

Alright, so the goal here was to build a small, compact cnc mill which can be handled and transported by a single person. The machine has to be rigid enough to work with titanium and (somewhat) hardened steel. Aluminum and plastics are on the list as well. The ultimate goad is to have a stout machine for small production runs.

In order to get a feeling for the dimensions of "real" machines, i started with modeling a few known models in CATIAV5. Here you can see (from left to the right):

-EMS P2
-Alpine VFZ
- Thundermill
-minibeast
-FS4MG/FS3MG