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Your CNC router cuts wood, acrylic, and aluminum. But you keep watching laser engravers produce photo-quality images in leather and wood in minutes, and yo...
A customer brings a carved mantelpiece detail that's been in their family for three generations. Half of it is gone from rot. They want it reproduced to ma...
There is a moment with a 3018 when you load a blank for a cabinet door and realize the part you need is exactly two inches wider than your work area will a...
The manual tool change on a CNC router takes 2-5 minutes: stop the job, change the bit, re-zero Z, restart. On a 4x8 sheet with ten different tool operatio...
Few hobby CNC routers built a bigger community than the Inventables X-Carve, and few carry a bigger asterisk today. For years it was the machine that taugh...
The gap between a hobby CNC router and an industrial one is not really about size, it is about how many hours a day the machine can run without complaining...
Ask experienced CNC users which software can take them from a first project all the way to professional-grade work, and Fusion 360 comes up constantly. It ...
Ask anyone who has broken a pile of end mills what they wish they had understood sooner, and feeds and speeds will come up fast. A CNC router speed and fee...
The entry-level CNC purchase has a specific failure mode: buying the cheapest possible machine to learn on, discovering it is too small and under-powered f...
