I just ordered one of these to add to my woodshop, im hoping i can find decent size surfacing bits that will fit it so i can flatten pieces before engraving logos and so forth, i mostly do cutting boards and am thinking maybe customers would be into getting names or something engraved on them.
I am new to CNCc and am wondering if a cheap CNC mill can be used as an automatic punching machine. i have a workpiece with dozens of precisely placed punch locations. Normally I use a sharpened needle to manually punch holes as its a sheet of soft material. My questions are: 1) whether i can connect this sharp needle to the CNC and simply use it as a puncher instead of a drill. 2) my work area is about 4 inches square. The hole sizes are relatively small approx 1mm. Is there a way to manually tell the cnc every time i place a new workpiece what the rotation of my workpiece is. Or give it multiple reference points instead of just one (xy 00) so it knows what the rotation of workpiece is around the z axis. 3) I am not sure if the cnc can exert a certain force downward so the needle can punch hole all the way. if not, icould it be possible to connect an automatic spring loaded puncher so that the spindle just has to come down and the rest will happen by the impact of the spring. Thank you.
My husband just bought one of these and is having a hard time with it. When it comes time to do a the 2nd pass it just starts doing it own thing. Have you experienced this?
I just ordered one to play with, I'm a machinist, usually that's your cam software telling it what to do, take the Gcode and put it into a plotter, theres free ones on google.
I just got vevor S4040 what setting did you use. How thick is that board. I meaured mine .190 with manual caliper. Not show if i did it right. I have vcarve pro. Also n light burn.
@vdub2002 hi. I'm not sure what speed i put for the spindle, what depth do i go to cut. the bit it came with is 1/8 .no datatool for it.mine is Power: 300W , 1200 RPM.
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I just ordered one of these to add to my woodshop, im hoping i can find decent size surfacing bits that will fit it so i can flatten pieces before engraving logos and so forth, i mostly do cutting boards and am thinking maybe customers would be into getting names or something engraved on them.
I am new to CNCc and am wondering if a cheap CNC mill can be used as an automatic punching machine. i have a workpiece with dozens of precisely placed punch locations. Normally I use a sharpened needle to manually punch holes as its a sheet of soft material.
My questions are: 1) whether i can connect this sharp needle to the CNC and simply use it as a puncher instead of a drill. 2) my work area is about 4 inches square. The hole sizes are relatively small approx 1mm. Is there a way to manually tell the cnc every time i place a new workpiece what the rotation of my workpiece is. Or give it multiple reference points instead of just one (xy 00) so it knows what the rotation of workpiece is around the z axis. 3) I am not sure if the cnc can exert a certain force downward so the needle can punch hole all the way. if not, icould it be possible to connect an automatic spring loaded puncher so that the spindle just has to come down and the rest will happen by the impact of the spring.
Thank you.
My husband just bought one of these and is having a hard time with it. When it comes time to do a the 2nd pass it just starts doing it own thing. Have you experienced this?
I haven't. Are you using lightburn? Edit: Sorry I was thinking of the wrong machine. So far I haven't had any issues.
I just ordered one to play with, I'm a machinist, usually that's your cam software telling it what to do, take the Gcode and put it into a plotter, theres free ones on google.
I just got vevor S4040 what setting did you use. How thick is that board. I meaured mine .190 with manual caliper. Not show if i did it right. I have vcarve pro. Also n light burn.
@@JanetDiaz6152 what do you mean? What are you trying to do
@vdub2002 hi. I'm not sure what speed i put for the spindle, what depth do i go to cut. the bit it came with is 1/8 .no datatool for it.mine is Power: 300W , 1200 RPM.