I was searching the internet for some hardened steel shafts for utterly different kind of project, when I found this video. That machine is so nicely constructed I almost cannot belive it is home made. Very nice job!
WONDERFULL ! This is the BEST CNC machine I have ever seen on UA-cam ! I love that you keep clean your workshoop , simply breautifull . Greets from Romania !
I can only say that I am very happy with them. When setting up all the alignment there was one very brief point where I did get a clicking but once I got the alignment set it didn't and now a few years later has never happened again.
9 people were jealous. The home made CNC. I would anodise in blue all alloy parts. But this will produce more jealous people with bad feedback. Great job mate
Steven G Rochelle Thank you I appreciate you taking the time to comment.I am currently doing a slight re-designin of the Z axis that I hope to publish in the next 4-6 weeks.
Yo nunca comento nada en estos canales, pero esta vez tengo que opinar, es usted "un genio del diseño" y su máquina cnc, creo que "es una obra de arte de la ingeniería". si me permite me gustaría saber más de sus diseños, gracias Federico
+Federico garcia apianes Thank you I appreciate your comments. I do not only try to make my projects functional but yes also a work of art, it does have to also look good.
I loved the design, I served as inspiration, is a very clean machine, i am building my own machine, I'm using a 1.5 kw motor, and if working space is 3 x 4 ft, thank you very much for sharing this video.
I am very pleased with every aspect of these Spindle Motors and the VFD. To date I have purchased three of them, one Water Cooled and two Air Cooled. I purchased them of eBay.
The Routers spindle motor is 1.5KW Air cooled, its body temp usually doesn't get over around 33 Deg Celsius even after 3+hours of running. I do use a 1.5KW water cooled motor on my modified Sherline Mill. Much more complicated to setup with all the additional water cooling hardware and plumbing. Comparing the two the Air Cooled motor is fine for home CNC work. I use Vectric Aspire CAD/CAM software to generate my G-Code. Its an excellent package, though a little expensive to start.
That is one fine machine you got there!!! I'm gonna jump on over to your url and research this more!! I love how clean and organized your workspace is!! OCD? Perfectionist?! Haha!! But really that is sweet!! Great job!! This is the type and size i would like to have!! Would fit just right in the corner of the workshop and not take up too much space. Kudos!! Peace!!!
The best advice that I can give is make it one stage at a time. Y then X then Z. Be patient as it will take a while, took me a few months, depends on how much spare time you have. Getting the basic machine up and running is just part of it, I spent more than another month fine tuning and with alignment. I acheived less than 0.3mm Z depth variation from one extreme to the other, corners over the bed. Thats quite OK for machining wood and Acrylic as its thickness can vary about that anyway.
Yes it is one from China I purchased on eBay. Not had any problems with it at all. I also have a Shirline CNC Mill I replaced its motor with a 1.5KW water cooled one from China. Both work very well, my preference for me is air cooled as it doesn't need all the water cooling plumbing and still runs just as cool. Though I have to say that even though I am sometimes running the Router up to 6 continuous hours the load on the motor is very light.
Lovely work. Cutter cooling & tool life could be improved with taking the cutter of the job at corners, or adding a vacum tube to pull out warm air from around the cutting tip & remove swarf ...... but it's another thing that will require attention, and get tangled up, may be cheaper to just burn a tip now and again & throw away .
I purchased the Controller, Stepper Motors and Power Supply from an eBay Store. There is no brand name. However I see that there are a lot of eBay stores selling the same thing. The board can handle a maximum of 3.5A drive current, the stepper motors are Nema 23 270oz-in.
Thank you. Ideally liquid cooling/lubrication is needed to extend the tool life. However It is messy and requires a lot of extra work to make the router able to handle it. As this router was mostly going to machine wood and acrylic I didn't bother. This is the only aluminium job I have machined with it but it proves that it can do it.
I use Vectric Aspire. This is an all in one CAD/CAM software package. It is mostly used for wood CNC but works just as well regardless of the material. It is very easy to learn and use.
Thank You. I machined all the body parts myself. I have a large Mill and Band Saw. There is a project page on my website that has all the pics and descriptions of how I made it. The spindle motor is a 1.5KW Air Cooled VFD. I purchased it of eBay.
Great machine, thanks for sharing. I am in the process of building my own and have thought a lot about using offset gantry vertical sides to increase travel. Correct me if I am wrong, but in your design which is similar in principal to mine, you can not achieve any additional travel because what you gain in the negative Y axis by moving the spindle position back, you lose on the positive Y axis because ultimately you are limited by the length of your rails.
Fred Morris For my machine I only gained on Y axis, the positioning is more centralised to maximise the full length of the bed positive and negative. Its a matter of getting the setback of the spindle optimum.
hamrx8 I am also thinking of incorporating a laser on my spindle, do you have a script to auto zero your spindle or do you zero it manually after jogging your laser? If you have a script, would you be prepared to share it?
I am sure it could, this is what you set it up to be in your control software such as MACH 3 that I use. You must take into account the optimal cutting speed for the Material being cut, the cutting tool itself (Dia & Number of flutes) and the depth of cut. There are rules for determining this. So it is not how rapidly you can run the router there are other factors to consider. Hope this helps.
Sometimes I get an email that someone has made a comment or asked a question on this UA-cam channel but when I look at the relevant posting I don't see that message so am unable to reply. All I can suggest to anyone that has not received a reply via UA-cam within a reasonable amount of time that they visit my website and use the Contact me form to directly send an eMail. www.ghqp.com.au
Thanks, I actually do my own anodising and could have done this. However once I got it all together and aligned I could not bring myself to breaking it all down just to make it look pretty. Maybe the next one if that ever happens. :)
Hi and thanks for your comments. The material for the gantry arms was well under $100 for both pieces. That was a couple of years ago now and prices would have increased some since then. Aluminium is a lot cheeper from a commercial wholesaler than a re-seller. All the best with your machine.
AWESOME! Look very professional. Simply awesome. As someone that is in very beginning of creating something that wont be even close at that i envy you :)
Yes I have used WD40 and it does work quite well. It all depends on the grade of aluminium being machined. For instance 6000 grade's are very soft and sticky so does need some sort of lubricant to stop buildup on the tools cutting edge. I have used Trefolex C.D.T. Cutting Oil and does not evaporate like WD40. Other lower number grades of aluminium do chip off quite well and do not stick to the cutting edge. The plate I am machining in the above video is 5083 Mill Finish Plate & had no problems.
Not many jobs that I do require precise accuracy so I don't often measure them. For the X and Y axis it is accurate to within 0.01mm and for the Z axis over the entire bed surface it is about 0.03mm. For smaller jobs max 150mm x 200mm I have a shirline CNC Mill and that is all over very accurate. Best Regards... Graham
Thank you for your comment. Yes I am a perfectionist and quite anal when it comes to being tidy and organised. I get this from my father who was the same. Many people comment like you when they first see my workshop. As for the router I had been thinking about making one for nearly two years before I started. Hope you find my website interesting.
Sorry I will check it out as soon as possible. I have a very sick mum in hospital at the moment. If you get a chance please try my website form again perhaps on another computer. Regards Graham
Yes it is 24,000RPM the maximum spindle speed this motor will do. I use only Carbide cutters. There was probably no reason to run that fast, it was the first job. For most jobs now I use between 10,000 to 16,000RPM rarely do I crank it up to 24,000. Then again I mostly use my router for Acrylic projects.
Hello, I know this is quite an old video but I found it very interesting to watch how you slowly milled the aluminium gantry plates and the finish was very good. I have just buit a DIY machine with 3D printed gantry plates and would like to attempt milling the gantry plates in aluminium to replace the 3DP plates. Could you please share roughly the speeds and feeds that you used.
Unfortunately I cant find that file as it was well over 10 years ago. However if I was doing it today these might be my settings if I were to choose to go with a single flute 4mm End Mill, back when I cut these side supports I exclusively used 2 flute end mills for aluminium but these days I only use single flute. So my settings would be: Pass Depth: 0.5mm Stepover: 75% Spindle Speed: 1800RPM Feed: 500mm/min Plunge: 90mm/min I hope this helps.
@ Nice to hear from you and thank you so much for your reply. I have made a note of the details and will experiment and might need to dial down some of the figures to compensate for my slower 500W spindle that only does around 12,000rpm. What I was thinking to do first is make the plates out of Birch plywood and replace the 3D plates with Ply and then attemp milling aluminium kind of RepRap method. Btw, what is the tool you were using lazer to zero out the axis? Thanks again!
Were you pleased with the spindle? In terms of run-out and play? And has it held up well in the time since you've bought it? How about the VFD? Sorry to ask so much! I'm up to my ears in my first CNC mill right now! It takes a lot of thought! Thanks for a great video!
Simply beautiful. May I ask what projects you create with this, or are you just building better and better tools? My hobby is model shipbuilding, and I have yet to buy a scroll saw! I would love to start a project such as this, but I've not done research into homemade cnc machines.
Store Name for the spindle motore is: love-happyshopping There is a lot more information on my website. Also at the bottom of the CNC Router Project page there is a downloadable text document with some specifications and purchase information for some of the main components. Hope this helps Regards Graham
Not sure what you mean. If you are asking can the router make a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) the answer would be yes I just have not had a reason to make one yet. I have though mad PCB's with my Shirline CNC Mill.
I have found no problem with the linear bearings that I used, there is absolutely no slop that I can detect or measure. I guess what it all boils down to is what you can afford to spend vs the type of machining you will be doing. Not a lot of especially home built CNC machines I have seen use square linear bearings. Probably if I were ever to build another router I might use square bearings just for the Z axis.
Beautiful...you should consider manufacturing them for resale. By the way, can you tell me the grade precision level of your lead / ball screws for the y-axis? You must be achieving very high tolerance compare to many gantry routers which have the gear rails, even the helical gear rails?
+Drake Dimitry Thanks Drake but I am retired now so only make things for my own enjoyment. I do however put a lot of detail especially regarding this router on my website so as to encourage and help others with their own design and construction. I am achieving good tolerance with my machine but must take into account I am mostly working with acrylic and not stressing the machine by taking lots of shallow cuts 1mm/pass for a 3mm cutter, for example. For me time is of no concern as I don't do this as a business. Lots more information on my website. Best regards
very nicely done! I'm in the process of building my second CNC. My first was almost entirely out of wood with aluminum rails. I'm now using that one to mill parts for a new aluminum one. I'm just using a router that I've had, but was thinking of upgrading. Can you tell me what kind of spindle you are using? is it liquid cooled? what 's the HP? Thanks, Greg
Yes... most of the main components were purchased off eBay. There is a text file you can download at the bottom of the CNC Router project page on my website. This has a lot of specifications and information where I purchased some the components.
Brilliant workmanship. very professional looking machine, I wonder how many passes did you need to cut that piece out, and what that piece was made of? i.e. abs, perspex, aluminium? and I see you are using Mach 3 software, but how did you make the stepper motor controller or card, and what sort of current in amps are you using . I do a lot of small parts making and use an old Cipher machine that came with Scanvec software, I normally use double sided tapes to stick the job down whilst routing and on larger sections it works brilliant, you can cut a piece without needing those tiny bridges to hold the job in. The double sided tape is one that uses special adhesive that does not bind too strongly and can be peeled off without leaving any residue, a few companies who supply tapes can supply those special purpose tapes, I also use parallel cutter and my machine was intended as an engraving machine, but i use it for both CNC routing and engraving, I have had it for 15 years now, but my old windows 3.11 based PC with ISA slots required for the stepper motor control card is failing and will be required to be replaced soon, hence why I am looking at alternatives.Thumbs up to you.
+samdomding Thanks for your comments. Briefly this video I am cutting Aluminium with 2 flute end mill. I purchased the Stepper Motors and controller as a complete kit on eBay. Correct I am using Mach3 for the CNC control. For my CAD/CAM I use Vectric Aspire. The Double Sided Tape is from my local hardware store it is a woven tape made for securing carpet to concert or timber flooring. It has a very strong bond and no lateral movement due to the woven fibre interlayer. There is a lot more information on my other UA-cam videos and my website. Best Regards Graham
Did you build that machine yourself? Do you have the plans? How much did it cost? Sorry about all the questions I am from the UK, that machine looks brilliant.
Great job! Just one question: What is the stepper motor force in Nm ? they look like 1.8 to me but also might be 3 or more, it's hard to approximate the size.
A lot of people ask me this and I never did a complete calculation as to the cost. I estimate it to have been between A$2,500 to A$3,000 for all the basic parts and materials. That includes the control computer, I already had the software that I use on my Shirline Mill.
Thanks for the quick reply. I was actually thinking of doing the Z on X (like you) but having the table move on the Y. But now I think I will do the moving gantry. Your results look very impressive, enough to convince me... Was it an ebay purchase for the rails and ball screws?
An effort like this would take me the rest of my remaining lifespan. Very cool and nicely done.
I was searching the internet for some hardened steel shafts for utterly different kind of project, when I found this video.
That machine is so nicely constructed I almost cannot belive it is home made. Very nice job!
WONDERFULL ! This is the BEST CNC machine I have ever seen on UA-cam ! I love that you keep clean your workshoop , simply breautifull . Greets from Romania !
CONGRATULATIONS One of best homemade CNC I ever seen. clean, well mounted, balanced, accurate, my sincere congratulations.
Greetings from Spain
Looks better than 99% of the pre-built ones.
+ComandanteJ Thanks :)
+hamrx8 That's true ...looks so good !!!!
more like 100% of them
I just watched your video again after a few years. Thanks you inspired me to build my own machine.
I can only say that I am very happy with them. When setting up all the alignment there was one very brief point where I did get a clicking but once I got the alignment set it didn't and now a few years later has never happened again.
9 people were jealous. The home made CNC. I would anodise in blue all alloy parts. But this will produce more jealous people with bad feedback. Great job mate
Very nice machine. You did a beautiful build. Cutting parts for your machine was very interesting also. The overview of whole is greatly appreciated.
Steven G Rochelle Thank you I appreciate you taking the time to comment.I am currently doing a slight re-designin of the Z axis that I hope to publish in the next 4-6 weeks.
This video is so inspirational because he is replicating like a rep rap. Such amazing design and engineering.
You made a very beautiful machine and you can be proud of it. Great craftmanship my friend.
Yo nunca comento nada en estos canales, pero esta vez tengo que opinar, es usted "un genio del diseño" y su máquina cnc, creo que "es una obra de arte de la ingeniería".
si me permite me gustaría saber más de sus diseños, gracias
Federico
+Federico garcia apianes Thank you I appreciate your comments.
I do not only try to make my projects functional but yes also a work of art, it does have to also look good.
I loved the design, I served as inspiration, is a very clean machine, i am building my own machine, I'm using a 1.5 kw motor, and if working space is 3 x 4 ft, thank you very much for sharing this video.
Your machine is a work of art! Nicely done. And you keep a beautifully maintained shop as well.
I am very pleased with every aspect of these Spindle Motors and the VFD. To date I have purchased three of them, one Water Cooled and two Air Cooled. I purchased them of eBay.
The Routers spindle motor is 1.5KW Air cooled, its body temp usually doesn't get over around 33 Deg Celsius even after 3+hours of running. I do use a 1.5KW water cooled motor on my modified Sherline Mill. Much more complicated to setup with all the additional water cooling hardware and plumbing. Comparing the two the Air Cooled motor is fine for home CNC work.
I use Vectric Aspire CAD/CAM software to generate my G-Code. Its an excellent package, though a little expensive to start.
That is one fine machine you got there!!! I'm gonna jump on over to your url and research this more!! I love how clean and organized your workspace is!! OCD? Perfectionist?! Haha!! But really that is sweet!! Great job!! This is the type and size i would like to have!! Would fit just right in the corner of the workshop and not take up too much space. Kudos!! Peace!!!
Fantastic workmanship! That is a top notch home-grown machine.
The best advice that I can give is make it one stage at a time. Y then X then Z. Be patient as it will take a while, took me a few months, depends on how much spare time you have. Getting the basic machine up and running is just part of it, I spent more than another month fine tuning and with alignment. I acheived less than 0.3mm Z depth variation from one extreme to the other, corners over the bed. Thats quite OK for machining wood and Acrylic as its thickness can vary about that anyway.
Your home built router is awesome ! It's one of the best I saw.
your shop is cleaner than my living room. much cleaner!
Yes it is one from China I purchased on eBay. Not had any problems with it at all. I also have a Shirline CNC Mill I replaced its motor with a 1.5KW water cooled one from China. Both work very well, my preference for me is air cooled as it doesn't need all the water cooling plumbing and still runs just as cool. Though I have to say that even though I am sometimes running the Router up to 6 continuous hours the load on the motor is very light.
Lovely work. Cutter cooling & tool life could be improved with taking the cutter of the job at corners, or adding a vacum tube to pull out warm air from around the cutting tip & remove swarf ...... but it's another thing that will require attention, and get tangled up, may be cheaper to just burn a tip now and again & throw away .
I purchased the Controller, Stepper Motors and Power Supply from an eBay Store. There is no brand name. However I see that there are a lot of eBay stores selling the same thing. The board can handle a maximum of 3.5A drive current, the stepper motors are Nema 23 270oz-in.
Thank you. Ideally liquid cooling/lubrication is needed to extend the tool life.
However It is messy and requires a lot of extra work to make the router able to handle it. As this router was mostly going to machine wood and acrylic I didn't bother. This is the only aluminium job I have machined with it but it proves that it can do it.
Nice shop, too. Thanks for posting this. You do beautiful work.
I use Vectric Aspire. This is an all in one CAD/CAM software package. It is mostly used for wood CNC but works just as well regardless of the material. It is very easy to learn and use.
Thank You.
I machined all the body parts myself. I have a large Mill and Band Saw. There is a project page on my website that has all the pics and descriptions of how I made it. The spindle motor is a 1.5KW Air Cooled VFD. I purchased it of eBay.
Going to the S style supports the centre of gravity is better over the Y axis bearings. So overall stability is better.
i have watched this video atleast 50 times now... I LOVE IT.... GREAT work
Thank you for your taking the time to comment this is very kind of you.
I trust you will have a very long life and a good one.
Great machine, thanks for sharing. I am in the process of building my own and have thought a lot about using offset gantry vertical sides to increase travel.
Correct me if I am wrong, but in your design which is similar in principal to mine, you can not achieve any additional travel because what you gain in the negative Y axis by moving the spindle position back, you lose on the positive Y axis because ultimately you are limited by the length of your rails.
Fred Morris For my machine I only gained on Y axis, the positioning is more centralised to maximise the full length of the bed positive and negative. Its a matter of getting the setback of the spindle optimum.
hamrx8 I am also thinking of incorporating a laser on my spindle, do you have a script to auto zero your spindle or do you zero it manually after jogging your laser? If you have a script, would you be prepared to share it?
Fred Morris Cant help you with that Fred, I zero my spindle manually using the laser only sometimes if needed.
gorgeous machine compare to my small Chinese cnc, I envy people that have big workshop to play with :)
I am sure it could, this is what you set it up to be in your control software such as MACH 3 that I use. You must take into account the optimal cutting speed for the Material being cut, the cutting tool itself (Dia & Number of flutes) and the depth of cut.
There are rules for determining this. So it is not how rapidly you can run the router there are other factors to consider. Hope this helps.
Sometimes I get an email that someone has made a comment or asked a question on this UA-cam channel but when I look at the relevant posting I don't see that message so am unable to reply. All I can suggest to anyone that has not received a reply via UA-cam within a reasonable amount of time that they visit my website and use the Contact me form to directly send an eMail.
www.ghqp.com.au
That machine is beautiful. I actually have plans to build a similar mill with dimensions of 520 * 500 * 300 (x,y,z).
Thanks, I actually do my own anodising and could have done this. However once I got it all together and aligned I could not bring myself to breaking it all down just to make it look pretty. Maybe the next one if that ever happens. :)
Hi and thanks for your comments. The material for the gantry arms was well under $100 for both pieces. That was a couple of years ago now and prices would have increased some since then. Aluminium is a lot cheeper from a commercial wholesaler than a re-seller. All the best with your machine.
AWESOME! Look very professional. Simply awesome. As someone that is in very beginning of creating something that wont be even close at that i envy you :)
Yes I have used WD40 and it does work quite well. It all depends on the grade of aluminium being machined. For instance 6000 grade's are very soft and sticky so does need some sort of lubricant to stop buildup on the tools cutting edge. I have used Trefolex C.D.T. Cutting Oil and does not evaporate like WD40. Other lower number grades of aluminium do chip off quite well and do not stick to the cutting edge. The plate I am machining in the above video is 5083 Mill Finish Plate & had no problems.
Excellent work. Very well crafted. You are obviously meticulous in your work.
Thank you for your comment. Yes I am a bit like that :)
Nice job. May you have many successful projects from it.
Not many jobs that I do require precise accuracy so I don't often measure them.
For the X and Y axis it is accurate to within 0.01mm and for the Z axis over the entire bed surface it is about 0.03mm. For smaller jobs max 150mm x 200mm I have a shirline CNC Mill and that is all over very accurate.
Best Regards... Graham
Thank you for your comment. Yes I am a perfectionist and quite anal when it comes to being tidy and organised. I get this from my father who was the same. Many people comment like you when they first see my workshop. As for the router I had been thinking about making one for nearly two years before I started. Hope you find my website interesting.
You are a lucky man! I wish you success!
Gorgeous Machine... Awesome work !!! Love it !
Sorry I will check it out as soon as possible. I have a very sick mum in hospital at the moment. If you get a chance please try my website form again perhaps on another computer.
Regards Graham
this is the kind of cnc im looking to build, top work!
Yes it is 24,000RPM the maximum spindle speed this motor will do. I use only Carbide cutters. There was probably no reason to run that fast, it was the first job. For most jobs now I use between 10,000 to 16,000RPM rarely do I crank it up to 24,000. Then again I mostly use my router for Acrylic projects.
Hello, I know this is quite an old video but I found it very interesting to watch how you slowly milled the aluminium gantry plates and the finish was very good.
I have just buit a DIY machine with 3D printed gantry plates and would like to attempt milling the gantry plates in aluminium to replace the 3DP plates. Could you please share roughly the speeds and feeds that you used.
Unfortunately I cant find that file as it was well over 10 years ago. However if I was doing it today these might be my settings if I were to choose to go with a single flute 4mm End Mill, back when I cut these side supports I exclusively used 2 flute end mills for aluminium but these days I only use single flute. So my settings would be:
Pass Depth: 0.5mm
Stepover: 75%
Spindle Speed: 1800RPM
Feed: 500mm/min
Plunge: 90mm/min
I hope this helps.
@ Nice to hear from you and thank you so much for your reply. I have made a note of the details and will experiment and might need to dial down some of the figures to compensate for my slower 500W spindle that only does around 12,000rpm. What I was thinking to do first is make the plates out of Birch plywood and replace the 3D plates with Ply and then attemp milling aluminium kind of RepRap method. Btw, what is the tool you were using lazer to zero out the axis? Thanks again!
@@MP-mu1kwSounds like a good plan. I used a Laser Edge Finder.
lasercenteredgefinder.com/
wow such a pro job! well done. i'm thinking of building a cnc myself. do you not need to liquid cool the router bit while working on aluminium ?
Were you pleased with the spindle? In terms of run-out and play? And has it held up well in the time since you've bought it? How about the VFD? Sorry to ask so much! I'm up to my ears in my first CNC mill right now! It takes a lot of thought! Thanks for a great video!
That is a thing of beauty!
One very important question... how much did it cost you to build it?
Indeed is a work of art, congratulations!
Very nice craftsmanship
Well Done. Fantastic machine.
Best build I've ever seen!!! Cool.
Nicely done. The CNC machine looks very professional. I see you are using a VFD. Is that to control the speed of the Spindle Motor?
A very professional built!
Did you have the body parts of the CNC laser cut of machined?
Also, what kind of a spindle motor do you use?
Simply beautiful. May I ask what projects you create with this, or are you just building better and better tools? My hobby is model shipbuilding, and I have yet to buy a scroll saw! I would love to start a project such as this, but I've not done research into homemade cnc machines.
machines building machines :O now we just have to wait for skynet to kick in
Store Name for the spindle motore is: love-happyshopping
There is a lot more information on my website.
Also at the bottom of the CNC Router Project page there is a downloadable text document with some specifications and purchase information for some of the main components.
Hope this helps
Regards
Graham
Not sure what you mean. If you are asking can the router make a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) the answer would be yes I just have not had a reason to make one yet. I have though mad PCB's with my Shirline CNC Mill.
I have found no problem with the linear bearings that I used, there is absolutely no slop that I can detect or measure. I guess what it all boils down to is what you can afford to spend vs the type of machining you will be doing. Not a lot of especially home built CNC machines I have seen use square linear bearings. Probably if I were ever to build another router I might use square bearings just for the Z axis.
Nice to see your are using Mach 3
*You are
Yes I am and have done since getting into CNC about 7 years ago no. Mach 3 has performed flawlessly.
Beautiful...you should consider manufacturing them for resale. By the way, can you tell me the grade precision level of your lead / ball screws for the y-axis? You must be achieving very high tolerance compare to many gantry routers which have the gear rails, even the helical gear rails?
+Drake Dimitry Thanks Drake but I am retired now so only make things for my own enjoyment. I do however put a lot of detail especially regarding this router on my website so as to encourage and help others with their own design and construction. I am achieving good tolerance with my machine but must take into account I am mostly working with acrylic and not stressing the machine by taking lots of shallow cuts 1mm/pass for a 3mm cutter, for example. For me time is of no concern as I don't do this as a business. Lots more information on my website. Best regards
The full bed size is 450x720mm
The maximum machinable job size is 400x580mm
The build looks excellent. I'm planning on building one with a fairly similar design.
very clean, nice machine ... looks great
I use a 3 Axis Controller Board 3A + 263 Oz-in (18.9Kgcm) Stepper Motor (The Stepper Motors have 0.25inch Dia Shafts Double end.)
one of the best CNC .... great work !!!
very good machine. congratulations.
very nicely done! I'm in the process of building my second CNC. My first was almost entirely out of wood with aluminum rails. I'm now using that one to mill parts for a new aluminum one. I'm just using a router that I've had, but was thinking of upgrading. Can you tell me what kind of spindle you are using? is it liquid cooled? what 's the HP?
Thanks,
Greg
You got the 2.2kw spindle with the 3kw driver? Very nice router, great job!
Yes... most of the main components were purchased off eBay. There is a text file you can download at the bottom of the CNC Router project page on my website. This has a lot of specifications and information where I purchased some the components.
I use Vectric Aspire for CAD/CAM and Artsoft MACH3 for CNC Machine Control.
Phenomenal build!
Thanks Johnny..
That machine is beautiful
Hi, that machine looks super pro.
great work!,this machine gives me inspiration to build one myself one day,thanks.
Brilliant workmanship. very professional looking machine, I wonder how many passes did you need to cut that piece out, and what that piece was made of? i.e. abs, perspex, aluminium? and I see you are using Mach 3 software, but how did you make the stepper motor controller or card, and what sort of current in amps are you using . I do a lot of small parts making and use an old Cipher machine that came with Scanvec software, I normally use double sided tapes to stick the job down whilst routing and on larger sections it works brilliant, you can cut a piece without needing those tiny bridges to hold the job in. The double sided tape is one that uses special adhesive that does not bind too strongly and can be peeled off without leaving any residue, a few companies who supply tapes can supply those special purpose tapes, I also use parallel cutter and my machine was intended as an engraving machine, but i use it for both CNC routing and engraving, I have had it for 15 years now, but my old windows 3.11 based PC with ISA slots required for the stepper motor control card is failing and will be required to be replaced soon, hence why I am looking at alternatives.Thumbs up to you.
+samdomding Thanks for your comments.
Briefly this video I am cutting Aluminium with 2 flute end mill.
I purchased the Stepper Motors and controller as a complete kit on eBay.
Correct I am using Mach3 for the CNC control. For my CAD/CAM I use Vectric Aspire.
The Double Sided Tape is from my local hardware store it is a woven tape made for securing carpet to concert or timber flooring. It has a very strong bond and no lateral movement due to the woven fibre interlayer.
There is a lot more information on my other UA-cam videos and my website.
Best Regards
Graham
Did you build that machine yourself? Do you have the plans? How much did it cost? Sorry about all the questions I am from the UK, that machine looks brilliant.
Very nice work!
Thank you, I really appreciate your comments.
Graham :-)
Excellent work, I am doing my homework on building a cnc router. What size stepper motors are you using?
Beautiful. Home built commercial quality
Thank you for your clarification, for home hobby work it is fine does everything I ask of it. :-)
Piece of art! Where did you get the laser thing from?
Sweet build!
Very good job! I very nice to see this machine
Great job! Just one question: What is the stepper motor force in Nm ?
they look like 1.8 to me but also might be 3 or more, it's hard to approximate the size.
Very nice sir.
I would like to know if the cutting speed could be increased. Thanks
A lot of people ask me this and I never did a complete calculation as to the cost. I estimate it to have been between A$2,500 to A$3,000 for all the basic parts and materials. That includes the control computer, I already had the software that I use on my Shirline Mill.
wow that looks fantastic
Thanks Ben.
Oh God! Machines built Machines! It's Terminator!!!!! :)
Thanks for the quick reply. I was actually thinking of doing the Z on X (like you) but having the table move on the Y. But now I think I will do the moving gantry. Your results look very impressive, enough to convince me... Was it an ebay purchase for the rails and ball screws?
Thanks I appreciate your comments.
Show, sensational, fantastic...Very, very good, congratulations!!
Lovely machine. Well done.
Nice monitor you got there, what brand / model is it?