3018 CNC is probably the most inexpensive machine you can buy. Surprisingly with proper settings and materials, you can achieve really nice results! Sure, it’s not the fastest CNC machine but definitely a great inexpensive learning tool for beginners.
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Fusion 360: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360
Feedrate and depth of cut per pass:
Wood engraving: 500mm/min, 1mm
Wooden tray: 500mm/min, 1mm
Plywood: 400mm/min, 1mm
Acrylic engraving: 600mm/min, 1mm
Acrylic contour: 1000mm/min, 0.5mm
PCB: 300mm/min, 0.12mm and 0.6 for the contour
Cheap CNC: https://amzn.to/35oIgcQ Also cheap CNC: https://bit.ly/3Ib6eHc IndyMill: https://indystry.cc/indymill Dremel CNC: https://www.instructables.com/DIY-3D-Printed-Dremel-CNC/ 3018 CNC is probably the most inexpensive machine you can buy. Surprisingly with proper settings and materials, you can achieve really nice results! Sure, it’s not the fastest CNC machine but definitely a great inexpensive learning tool for beginners. Pyramid milling bit: https://bit.ly/3wvkV2Z Wood bit: https://amzn.to/3xwMhGj Acrylic bit:
The files to make your own can be found here: 3D PRINTED CNC
It works! The 3D Printed CNC MkII is finished and it works beautifully. I made a test cut for an HTD5M 100 tooth gear in less than 45 minutes in 6mm aluminium plate and it was perfect!! Imagine what can we do with this!!!
Incredibly I did not break a single bit during the making on this video, I invested quite some time with that poplar soft plywood refining the process and I go quite good at it (as good as to not break bits).
As you may remember there was a previous version of this that ended up becoming a donor in a “part” emergency. This revised version is easier to assemble, more refined and can be printed in smaller printers.
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The files to make your own can be found here: 3D PRINTED CNC It works! The 3D Printed CNC MkII is finished and it works beautifully. I made a test cut for an HTD5M 100 tooth gear in less than 45 minutes in 6mm aluminium plate and it was perfect!! Imagine what can we do with this!!! Incredibly I did
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Somehow I got carried away by the comments in the last video and decided to sharpen my welding skills trying to rebuild the mill out of steel.
I remade the entire frame out of 40x40x2 steel box and TIG welded it using a technique called winging it. As a known side effect of this technique the frame is not square, straight, coplanar, or any of the required properties for the frame of a machine like this. I solved it by shimming almost everything on it with washers of different thicknesses and a lot of brute force. In the build of the aluminium one almost everything went perfect first try, in this build I had to wrestle with it a lot, way more than I’m capable to show in a single video. The machine is obviously more rigid than the aluminium one and after a lot of fiddling with it, it is surprisingly straight where it counts and seems to even be properly trammed.
As a bonus at the end of the video I decided to obliterate some aluminium and steel with the wrong dull bit and completely wrong feeds and speeds.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Preparing the parts
02:20 Welding the frame
04:47 Raid
06:37 Finishing the frame
07:07 XY Table
10:50 Z Axis turret
13:04 Final assembly
14:42 Testing
Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: https://clcr.me/ERtcce and get a special starter pack Available only for the next 30 days Somehow I got carried away by the comments in the last video and decided to sharpen my welding skills trying to rebuild the mill out of steel. I remade the entire frame out of 40x40x2 steel box and TIG welded
I finally did what everyone was asking for, I machined all the parts of the 3D printed CNC out of aluminium. I used both 10 mm and 6 mm flat stock to machine all the mechanical parts and then I used a lot of elbow grease to make the borders nicer. Drilled and taped al the holes by hand but I positioned them with small marks made with the CNC. Before the change was very difficult to make the walls cut by the bit perfectly vertical because of the flex of the entire structure. After the modification the walls are perfectly vertical as far as I can tell. I also reinforced the Y axis rail beams with two more vertical posts on each side and swapped the bridge aluminium beams for steel ones. An extra benefit of this change is that I can push the motors a little bit further now as the aluminium brackets help a lot with heat dissipation were the 3D printed parts melted. There are a few improvements that still can be made, like the vacuum hood which now sits too high and does almost nothing but this is now a machine that performs extremely well for my needs. Now let’s thing of things that I can make with this machine or projects that I can bring back for a more metallic finish 😉 Leave your ideas in the comments and I’ll see what I can do.
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Check Surfshark for yourself and start browsing the internet safely here: https://surfshark.deals/IVAN and use the promo code: IVAN The files for the original CNC geared and non geared versions can be found here: 3D PRINTED CNC I finally did what everyone was asking for, I machined all the parts of the 3D printed CNC out of aluminium. I used both
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The CNC has a half sheet of plywood cut capacity with a maximum thickness allowance of 6″. The entire unit cost under $900 to make. A free set of plans and cost breakdown analysis (with links to every product used) is available for download on my website DIYBuilds.ca Support DIY Builds on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DIYBuilds Buy a T-shirt to support the
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There’s a new version of this machine here: https://youtu.be/ctyLjOHg7Ag
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I made a CNC router using mostly 3D printed parts that can cut metal!
The machine uses a Makita router as the cutting tool and as I show in the video it can easily cut complex parts out of aluminium.
Invest in blue-chip art for the very first time by signing up for Masterworks: https://masterworks.art/ivanmiranda See important Masterworks disclosures: https://mw-art.co/37WwvbD There’s a new version of this machine here: https://youtu.be/ctyLjOHg7Ag If you are interested in the files for the machine you can go here: TINY 3D PRINTED CNC MK I (OLDER VERSION) I made a CNC router using mostly 3D printed
