Cnc: Does anyone on here use a cnc router?

davidv Loc: salt lake city utah

Does anyone on here use a cnc router?

Jkelliott Loc: East Tenn

Yes. And enjoy it very much..

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

davidv wrote:

Does anyone on here use a cnc router?

Why? I built one from a kit, then found out I'm not smart enough to calibrate it, sold it!!!
Then about a year later bought a cheaper kit and altered it to use in my close-up/macro photography, no calibrating needed.

ed3 Loc: Belton, MO

What would you like to ask about them? I have built and used them, especially enjoy teaching high school kids to use these tools to develop and test robots. Coupled with 3D modeling software they can become very fast and powerful tools to enable you great flexibility to construct many different things. In a past life, I started with a machine called and NC mill. Used paper tel-a-tape for input into the machine. Recently moved on to using 3D printers. Being retired has afforded me time to play.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

ed3 wrote:

What would you like to ask about them? I have built and used them, especially enjoy teaching high school kids to use these tools to develop and test robots. Coupled with 3D modeling software they can become very fast and powerful tools to enable you great flexibility to construct many different things. In a past life, I started with a machine called and NC mill. Used paper tel-a-tape for input into the machine. Recently moved on to using 3D printers. Being retired has afforded me time to play.

Pass-Go Loc: Brunswick Oh

Look into a hand held one called Shaper Origin pretty cool. About 2600.00 You take the router to the part to be worked.

Just Shoot Me Loc: Ithaca, NY

My son writes programs for ones like this. If you have a spare 1.3 million laying around you can have one too.

PS

let me know if you have a spare 1.3 million laying around, I want to be your new best friend.

davidv Loc: salt lake city utah

I purchased a used Shark cnc last year and by watching Mark Linsey on YouTube I finely got it to engrave something into a board. So my question is, I purchased some cnc files from Etsy for cutting out cutting board shapes. I use a Mac and have a pc for my software to run my cnc . What steps do you use to download the files then import to the cnc? This probably sounds kinda stupid but that’s how I feel about it also.Thanks, Dave

John Hicks Loc: Sible Hedinham North Essex England

When I was a chief engineer going back some twenty five years ago we had a cnc machine in our workshop and it cost the company about £650,000 to buy.
Some four years later out mould makers paid over £ 1,100,000 for their first router and it was a fabulous bit of kit.
About a year after that they bought a cms lathe and that was an exceptional piece of equipment, within the next four years they bought another lathe and three more routers all cms machine although they were more end machines and they could perform work that previously thought impossible.

lbrande

ed3 wrote:

What would you like to ask about them? I have built and used them, especially enjoy teaching high school kids to use these tools to develop and test robots. Coupled with 3D modeling software they can become very fast and powerful tools to enable you great flexibility to construct many different things. In a past life, I started with a machine called and NC mill. Used paper tel-a-tape for input into the machine. Recently moved on to using 3D printers. Being retired has afforded me time to play.

You bring back memories.