Same. It also gives me ideas for things that I would like to do but won't ever get around to. Our worse, I'll end up buying the parts and they'll sit on my shelf and not get used.
I dont own this machine, but this was one of the best "mod" videos I have ever seen. Your understanding of the machine and machining hardware in general is impressive and something to look up to for aspiring engineers like myself. Kudos
sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know a trick to log back into an instagram account? I stupidly lost the login password. I love any tricks you can offer me
@Jabari Jaxton I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im in the hacking process now. I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
Just added the HDZ and the aluminum threaded table from Ohio Diesel Parts LLC to my Shapeoko XXL. Currently using a Fusion 5 Windows tablet as a touch screen controller with no real complaints. ($189 on Amazon) Would love to do the Stream Deck upgrade though... that looks great! Terrific video with tons of useful information... thank you for making this video.
Would love a rough comparison of money invested vs. off the shelf systems that already come with some of this, as well as time invested to pull all of this off. That aside, wow, super impressive on all fronts and done in a very professional/polished manner!
Holy smokes. Shapeoko on steroids. I guess if I push mine to the limits I can start implementing some of these changes. The ones that I’ll do first. Stop switch and the concentric nuts. Then probably the limit switches and a controller.
awesome stuff, your videos are super informative, easy to understand and you speak so well on camera, cheers! my upgrade path is a little slower than yours but should end up with a similar machine hopefully
Great upgrades. The Shapeoko is an amazing tool and you take it to the next level...how about adding a Moxon vice to enable dovetail production. Terrific job. Thanks
Great video. Just one minor thing to point out. What ever lighting you are using is creating light and dark horizontal bands. It is especially noticeable in jump cuts.
Any chance you can tell us which wires go to which terminals on the proximity switches as they are three wire and the limit switches are two wire. Great channel by the way. Trying to do your improvements gradually.
Thanks for sharing. Most of the links are dead. I think a good approach for those like me wanting to buy a Shapeoko for the first time, is to buy the minor stuff like wheels and nuts and use those instead of the Shapeoko supplied hardware when putting together for the first time
thanks, I will try to update those soon. You could upgrade initially, or perform them along the way as you encounter the reasons that drove me to upgrade... :) may cost a little up front but you will get more out of your investment!
This is one of the best video I saw regarding the topic ! And neatly done in addition. Congrats :) I am currently planning to get into this for my workshop (which I hope will be as cool as yours). If you are interested in having a hand regarding the documentation and the parts sourcing for Europe, please contact me ! I have linkedined you and I would be glad to contribute.
PC cooling is cool 😉 but an All-In-One like the cw3000 is a lot easier and has a pump that will outdo any PC pump, it has a built in alarm, 9L tank (which keeps it cooler longer) and temperature monitoring. it’s not refrigerated but neither is the radiator setup. I’ve done both and will never go back to PC parts.
cool, I had great performance with this setup and the footprint was much smaller than the cw3000 but of course, there are other options as you point out.
Great video. I have done most of these upgrades but for the mister and spindle. I have the XXL model. Any suggestions where to find a drip pan that would fit that beast? Thanks
Great video! Just bought my Shapeoko and could not be more excited to do a lot of the same mods you have done here. I thought I had seen a quick glimpse in one of your videos of a face mill with 1/4" shank? Any idea where I would get that? Would like to face my waste board quickly until I can upgrade to the aluminum. Keep up the great work :-)
Great video! I just received the 110v spindle and have pretty much the manufacturer video to follow, any possible way to shoot me the PD settings you used? New to all the so the book with 180 different settings is kind of daunting.
For much less than the cost of the parts to build your spindle cooling, any reason you didn't just go with an S&A CW-3000 ambient chiller? For only a little more than what you paid, you could have gone with a CW-5000 refrigerated chiller.
this is but one solution, I like it because it is modular (meaning I can extend and customize as my needs change) and customized to my specific enclosure, cnc and climate needs. there are cheaper solutions, heck some people use a bucket and fountain pump. this works for me. :)
it's been a while since this was produced, but I believe the total in upgrades was around $1200 ... essentialy doubling the price of the machine. when contrasted to a comparable avid, it saved around $1k. I have since sold this setup to upgrade to an HDM
Which version of UGS are you running, and have you had any problems with using it? I am currently using Cncjs and am liking it but Im wanting to set up your stream deck pendant and cncjs doesn't have enough of the hotkeys that I would like to have that UGS does. It only has jogging.
Absolutely fantastic upgrades! My Shapeoko 3 XXL will be here this Friday. Any information on your enclosure? It looks so professional. I want to have the same. I downloaded the dust cover files; bought magnets(some were pricey); will print them out; and I won't forget to tip you as well ;-) Just need some ideas on enclosure.
Great video. I just upgraded to the same vfd i have wired it the same way using a 5v pwm signal, but i can't fathom the pd settings (my vfd didn't arrive with a manual). Would you be willing to share your settings please?
Where the GRBL firmware changes needed for the PWM to work? I have the SO4 and my PWM voltage is always 4.9V(Max V and RPM) even if my program speed is half that.
@@DIYEngineering I have to look up my GRBL verison, but I believe that I had to change something that was 1000 to 24000. Not at machine now. Sorry about the vagueness.
Great video! Does the stream deck work with Carbide Motion? Currently using a mini keyboard for jogging and such. Would love to incorporate a stream deck into my machine when I finally get around to building an enclosure for it.
@@DIYEngineering Perhaps C3D will follow Carbide Motion Pro with an enhanced CM in the future. So far, I've been sending Vcarve DT through CM generally with no problems. But, there are times when I wish for a couple of additional features. I'm going to look deeper into UGS. Thank you, very much, for sharing what works for you. Very helpful.
The aluminum tool plates you purchased, could you post a link on that. Carbide3D never seems to have them available and I believe you said you had yours made?
Well I managed to listen a little more closely. www.ohiodieselparts.com/shop-10 is the link to their Shapeko 3 plates. Thank you so much for your video. Many of your ideas are going into my new machine.
This is awesome use of the Stream Deck as a pendant! I have downloaded the profile to alter and set up for cnc usage. I would like to know though, what gcode have you used for the "Location" positions? Im assuming you have used a Gcode as positions as there aren't enough for the 9 locations to use G54-59. How did you set this up? Or could you show me an example of the code you used for a location.. This would be really helpful as I am interested to learn this and enjoy learning more to improve my processes. Thanks
I provide the Streamdeck profile in the description, you can download it and import it and not have to do anything...(except maybe change the hotkeys) I also provide the UGS profile for the same hotkeys... does that help?
@DIY Engineering, is there any way to get the stream deck setup to work with Mach3? I have a stream deck still sitting in a box from when it was first released and using it for my WorkBee CNC would be a DREAM! Thanks for all your help and vids!
Custom Creations I’m sure it can be done if mach 3 can create custom macros and assign hot keys to them... I’m pretty sure it can. If you know let me know otherwise I’d have to look into the documentation a bit.
@@DIYEngineering I am new to Mach3 but I am pretty sure you can, just like with any other program. The only problem is how to implement it considering your code is not written for Mach3?
@@DIYEngineering All I see on Mach3 is the hotkeys for certain things and then G54 positioning and so on. I think there is 200+ G54,55,56,57 blah blah blah positions but to call them from the Streamdeck is what I am trying to figure out. I can tweet you the hotkey list if you wish. Running Macros is a whole different story with Mach3 O_o
Great video and very well presented! Thank you for all of the info! Quick question. Where can I get the dust shoe cover you have? I have an XXL and I know there's options like the suckit dust boot, etc. However, I clicked on the first link you had listed in the description and I see the v2 wheel covers in the store but no dust boot. Could you clarify?
Johnny Silvis - Arctic Grain Workshop hi Johnny, thanks for the feedback! I sell the dust covers over on my website shop.diy.engineering btw, they are on sale now!
Thanks for the info and the reply. I clicked your link but again, I don’t see the dust boot. The only Shapeoko related items I see are the wheel covers version 1 and v2.
DIY Engineering, I am adding a streamdeck to my shapeoko at the shop. I downloaded the files shared, got the latest version of UGS for Windows, and uploaded the macros there. I have (gratefully) uploaded and am using the streamdeck profile provided, looks great. However, it seems unclear where to upload the UGS profile XLM file. I am assuming its doing some keymapping allowing the streamdeck to communicate with the UGS, but the XML format seems to not take. Any quick fixes? Thank you D3PC
Thank you for the video. If you don't mind me asking, how do you wire up the E-Switch using the Arduino Mini Pro? Using the Shapeoko 3 XXL purchased last year.
hi Jeff, my current implementation just issues a stop command via hot hey, the device is plugged into usb, as a result, UGS stops motion and spindle in one shot. technically, its not a read dead-mans switch
Those are some great ideas. I would be very interested in seeing how to make a shapeoko less of a fire hazard if the work piece shifts and causes the steppers to overheat. For instance ruclips.net/video/4tpxgZUYGSI/видео.html I've seen some videos on how to do closed loop steppers so that if the stepper has problems the driver stops it so it doesn't destroy itself but the closed loop approach looks to be extremely complicated.
I used my stock shapeoko for two years, earning money, through that process, I discovered lots of things I would change to improve it... this is applying those distinctions. If I were rich and were doing it all over, id buy a Tormach.
This is a great video. Saved it for sure to refer back to it. Check out my channel let me know what you think. I'm doing some shapeoko things. But nothing on this level yet.
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I love watching videos like this, because it shows me how much I don't know. Thank you for making videos like this as it opens up a new world.
Same. It also gives me ideas for things that I would like to do but won't ever get around to. Our worse, I'll end up buying the parts and they'll sit on my shelf and not get used.
I dont own this machine, but this was one of the best "mod" videos I have ever seen. Your understanding of the machine and machining hardware in general is impressive and something to look up to for aspiring engineers like myself. Kudos
sorry to be so offtopic but does someone know a trick to log back into an instagram account?
I stupidly lost the login password. I love any tricks you can offer me
@Valentino Austin Instablaster =)
@Jabari Jaxton I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im in the hacking process now.
I see it takes quite some time so I will reply here later with my results.
@Jabari Jaxton It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy:D
Thanks so much you really help me out!
@Valentino Austin no problem :)
Wow. I'm impressed for sure. A bit daunting to consider all this, but really appreciate the walkthrough, explanations and food for thought!
Please make a video showing how it performs.
Excellent work.. thank you very much for this information. It was very well organized and concise.
WOW! just what I needed to see, Thank you for this!
Just added the HDZ and the aluminum threaded table from Ohio Diesel Parts LLC to my Shapeoko XXL. Currently using a Fusion 5 Windows tablet as a touch screen controller with no real complaints. ($189 on Amazon) Would love to do the Stream Deck upgrade though... that looks great! Terrific video with tons of useful information... thank you for making this video.
Would love a rough comparison of money invested vs. off the shelf systems that already come with some of this, as well as time invested to pull all of this off. That aside, wow, super impressive on all fronts and done in a very professional/polished manner!
Holy smokes. Shapeoko on steroids. I guess if I push mine to the limits I can start implementing some of these changes. The ones that I’ll do first. Stop switch and the concentric nuts. Then probably the limit switches and a controller.
ManCraftingTM lol, i still have guilt from the cost of the upgrades, time to get back to making things!
Just found your channel and I must say its now one of my favorites
Your channel is so under rated. Why don't you have 500k Subscribers? Great work, Keep it up..:)
thanks for the vote of confidence! im trying to add some value. ;)
awesome stuff, your videos are super informative, easy to understand and you speak so well on camera, cheers!
my upgrade path is a little slower than yours but should end up with a similar machine hopefully
Stuart Taylor thanks Stuart I'll keep at it! ;)
Kinda digging the Stream Deck Idea :°
Pimp My Ride, Shapeoko edition
Hahaha
Great upgrades. The Shapeoko is an amazing tool and you take it to the next level...how about adding a Moxon vice to enable dovetail production. Terrific job. Thanks
Great video! Thanks.
Great video. Just one minor thing to point out. What ever lighting you are using is creating light and dark horizontal bands. It is especially noticeable in jump cuts.
Fantastic upgrade, but that that bed itself looks more expensive than shapeoko. Isn't shapeoko belt driven btw?
Wow bravo man!!! Nice job!!!
Wondering why you went with an air pump instead of an air compressor?
Great information!
Wow!
Nice video, keep it up, thank you :)
Fantastic channel 👍👍
Wow. Gracias amigo.
You are a very intelligent human :o Wow!
Any chance you have a place where you sell or give your stream deck icons for carbide motion please
I would love to use a stream deck
Regards, Rick
Great content, good variety , any chance you can go into more depth on the setup and g- coding on the stream deck. Happy New Year from Australia.
Hello! I was wondering what type of barb fittings you used. Thanks and a great build!
I need to make an enclosure to mount all my stuff to it :p
Any chance you can tell us which wires go to which terminals on the proximity switches as they are three wire and the limit switches are two wire. Great channel by the way. Trying to do your improvements gradually.
Thanks for sharing. Most of the links are dead. I think a good approach for those like me wanting to buy a Shapeoko for the first time, is to buy the minor stuff like wheels and nuts and use those instead of the Shapeoko supplied hardware when putting together for the first time
thanks, I will try to update those soon. You could upgrade initially, or perform them along the way as you encounter the reasons that drove me to upgrade... :) may cost a little up front but you will get more out of your investment!
I’m in the process of researching how to upgrade my spindle to be water cooled. Love your setup. Curious if you had any more detail on full setup?
Any recommendations for a 220 spindle/ VFD kit? Thank you!
This is one of the best video I saw regarding the topic ! And neatly done in addition. Congrats :)
I am currently planning to get into this for my workshop (which I hope will be as cool as yours). If you are interested in having a hand regarding the documentation and the parts sourcing for Europe, please contact me ! I have linkedined you and I would be glad to contribute.
absolutely, I can always use a hand! please email me admin@diy.engineering
PC cooling is cool 😉 but an All-In-One like the cw3000 is a lot easier and has a pump that will outdo any PC pump, it has a built in alarm, 9L tank (which keeps it cooler longer) and temperature monitoring. it’s not refrigerated but neither is the radiator setup. I’ve done both and will never go back to PC parts.
cool, I had great performance with this setup and the footprint was much smaller than the cw3000 but of course, there are other options as you point out.
@@DIYEngineering yep footprint of pc parts is a lot smaller, especially when mounted to the CNC itself
Great video. I have done most of these upgrades but for the mister and spindle. I have the XXL model. Any suggestions where to find a drip pan that would fit that beast? Thanks
I just want to comment to make it a even 100, because OCD that's why!
I appreciate that! ...doah!
Do you have another link for HD vee wheels???
Thank you for making this video, will these upgrades allow for carbon fiber cutting?
Great video! Just bought my Shapeoko and could not be more excited to do a lot of the same mods you have done here. I thought I had seen a quick glimpse in one of your videos of a face mill with 1/4" shank? Any idea where I would get that? Would like to face my waste board quickly until I can upgrade to the aluminum. Keep up the great work :-)
This is the one I use, works pretty well. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071748JQN/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Great video! I just received the 110v spindle and have pretty much the manufacturer video to follow, any possible way to shoot me the PD settings you used? New to all the so the book with 180 different settings is kind of daunting.
Steve Taylor no worries, I'll post them here, let me know if the jumper info helps.
For much less than the cost of the parts to build your spindle cooling, any reason you didn't just go with an S&A CW-3000 ambient chiller? For only a little more than what you paid, you could have gone with a CW-5000 refrigerated chiller.
this is but one solution, I like it because it is modular (meaning I can extend and customize as my needs change) and customized to my specific enclosure, cnc and climate needs. there are cheaper solutions, heck some people use a bucket and fountain pump. this works for me.
:)
really really neat but just curious on what you spent on this as opposed to, say, grabbing and Avid?
it's been a while since this was produced, but I believe the total in upgrades was around $1200 ... essentialy doubling the price of the machine. when contrasted to a comparable avid, it saved around $1k. I have since sold this setup to upgrade to an HDM
@@DIYEngineering awesome! Thanks for the response. I'm seriously thinking of doing some of this stuff on my ProXXLHDZ
Are you still making the wheel dust covers? I would like to order a set.
Which version of UGS are you running, and have you had any problems with using it?
I am currently using Cncjs and am liking it but Im wanting to set up your stream deck pendant and cncjs doesn't have enough of the hotkeys that I would like to have that UGS does. It only has jogging.
what where the dimensions on the Eccentric nuts. it seems Beaver doesnt make them anymore
Absolutely fantastic upgrades! My Shapeoko 3 XXL will be here this Friday. Any information on your enclosure? It looks so professional. I want to have the same. I downloaded the dust cover files; bought magnets(some were pricey); will print them out; and I won't forget to tip you as well ;-) Just need some ideas on enclosure.
hi, thanks! I did a video on my enclosure and offer the fusion 360 file to use. ruclips.net/video/WQW0WHSCUyQ/видео.html
@@DIYEngineering Thank you very much.
Great video. I just upgraded to the same vfd i have wired it the same way using a 5v pwm signal, but i can't fathom the pd settings (my vfd didn't arrive with a manual). Would you be willing to share your settings please?
Radious Design sure, I'll post my settings this afternoon.
Thanks. That's great. It's been driving me crazy
Anything that was not changed ? Wow
Would like to have somebody do all the upgrades definitely I’m not capable
I might be selling it... :)
@@DIYEngineering In favor of what? I was wondering what you could have bought with the total investment you have in this machine.
Where the GRBL firmware changes needed for the PWM to work? I have the SO4 and my PWM voltage is always 4.9V(Max V and RPM) even if my program speed is half that.
What version of GRBL are you running? And which pin are you using?
@@DIYEngineering I have to look up my GRBL verison, but I believe that I had to change something that was 1000 to 24000. Not at machine now. Sorry about the vagueness.
Great video! Does the stream deck work with Carbide Motion? Currently using a mini keyboard for jogging and such. Would love to incorporate a stream deck into my machine when I finally get around to building an enclosure for it.
hi Matt, currently CM does not have many hot keys to benefit from the streamdeck, hopefully they improve that over time.
@@DIYEngineering Perhaps C3D will follow Carbide Motion Pro with an enhanced CM in the future. So far, I've been sending Vcarve DT through CM generally with no problems. But, there are times when I wish for a couple of additional features. I'm going to look deeper into UGS.
Thank you, very much, for sharing what works for you. Very helpful.
The aluminum tool plates you purchased, could you post a link on that. Carbide3D never seems to have them available and I believe you said you had yours made?
Well I managed to listen a little more closely. www.ohiodieselparts.com/shop-10 is the link to their Shapeko 3 plates. Thank you so much for your video. Many of your ideas are going into my new machine.
This is awesome use of the Stream Deck as a pendant!
I have downloaded the profile to alter and set up for cnc usage.
I would like to know though, what gcode have you used for the "Location" positions?
Im assuming you have used a Gcode as positions as there aren't enough for the 9 locations to use G54-59.
How did you set this up?
Or could you show me an example of the code you used for a location..
This would be really helpful as I am interested to learn this and enjoy learning more to improve my processes.
Thanks
Hi,
I used macros in UGS, you can download my macros to see the gcode i used.
@@DIYEngineering Oh yeah sorry, I complete forgot about that. Thanks
Quick questions, are you going to make a tutorial on how to set your stream deck with step by step, is for a friend of a friend😅
I provide the Streamdeck profile in the description, you can download it and import it and not have to do anything...(except maybe change the hotkeys) I also provide the UGS profile for the same hotkeys... does that help?
What did this all cost?
Could you help me please. Want to get the XXL but want a lathe set up to do 3d what would i need get please
@DIY Engineering, is there any way to get the stream deck setup to work with Mach3? I have a stream deck still sitting in a box from when it was first released and using it for my WorkBee CNC would be a DREAM! Thanks for all your help and vids!
Custom Creations I’m sure it can be done if mach 3 can create custom macros and assign hot keys to them... I’m pretty sure it can. If you know let me know otherwise I’d have to look into the documentation a bit.
@@DIYEngineering I am new to Mach3 but I am pretty sure you can, just like with any other program. The only problem is how to implement it considering your code is not written for Mach3?
@@DIYEngineering All I see on Mach3 is the hotkeys for certain things and then G54 positioning and so on. I think there is 200+ G54,55,56,57 blah blah blah positions but to call them from the Streamdeck is what I am trying to figure out. I can tweet you the hotkey list if you wish. Running Macros is a whole different story with Mach3 O_o
Great video and very well presented! Thank you for all of the info! Quick question. Where can I get the dust shoe cover you have? I have an XXL and I know there's options like the suckit dust boot, etc. However, I clicked on the first link you had listed in the description and I see the v2 wheel covers in the store but no dust boot. Could you clarify?
Johnny Silvis - Arctic Grain Workshop hi Johnny, thanks for the feedback! I sell the dust covers over on my website shop.diy.engineering btw, they are on sale now!
Thanks for the info and the reply. I clicked your link but again, I don’t see the dust boot. The only Shapeoko related items I see are the wheel covers version 1 and v2.
DIY Engineering,
I am adding a streamdeck to my shapeoko at the shop. I downloaded the files shared, got the latest version of UGS for Windows, and uploaded the macros there. I have (gratefully) uploaded and am using the streamdeck profile provided, looks great. However, it seems unclear where to upload the UGS profile XLM file. I am assuming its doing some keymapping allowing the streamdeck to communicate with the UGS, but the XML format seems to not take.
Any quick fixes?
Thank you
D3PC
I have same issue did you ever find fix?
The link for the proximity sensors sends you too plexiglass.
thanks! the link has been updated.
bit.ly/2VsF3T5
Thank you for the video. If you don't mind me asking, how do you wire up the E-Switch using the Arduino Mini Pro? Using the Shapeoko 3 XXL purchased last year.
hi Jeff, my current implementation just issues a stop command via hot hey, the device is plugged into usb, as a result, UGS stops motion and spindle in one shot. technically, its not a read dead-mans switch
Guess I better get a mechanical and electrical engineering degree to get beyond the first few mods lol.
no degrees required!! just relentless research and attention to detail! :)
Interesting and useful upgrades. The static and flickering you've added between scenes is truly obnoxious though.
Any help sourcing that bed?
Rob Fish www.ohiodieselparts.com/product-page/shapeoko-3-xl-fixture-table-custom-metal-aluminum-plates-800-mounting-points
@@DIYEngineering Awesome..Thank You!!!
Those are some great ideas. I would be very interested in seeing how to make a shapeoko less of a fire hazard if the work piece shifts and causes the steppers to overheat. For instance ruclips.net/video/4tpxgZUYGSI/видео.html I've seen some videos on how to do closed loop steppers so that if the stepper has problems the driver stops it so it doesn't destroy itself but the closed loop approach looks to be extremely complicated.
Why even bother buying the shapeoko, you basically just replaced everything on it?
I used my stock shapeoko for two years, earning money, through that process, I discovered lots of things I would change to improve it... this is applying those distinctions. If I were rich and were doing it all over, id buy a Tormach.
will software emergency switch stop spindle and rapids? forums say otherwise, better go with power off switch.
using UGS, hotkey stops spindle and rapids.
This is a great video. Saved it for sure to refer back to it. Check out my channel let me know what you think. I'm doing some shapeoko things. But nothing on this level yet.
are you serious? so much work on this trash machine? better nuild one from scratch. NOTHING in the shapeokobundle deserves keeping.
So you're saying the massively overbuilt extrusion is garbage? The overspecced steppers don't cut it? You're an idiot
You're a clown, Schinas!
*stay away from anything shapeoko.* worst machines in this universe. the list of flaws is endless, shapeokos are pure trash. (owner).
constantinos schinas what brand should i then buy?. Got a 3-4K budget
😂 I just purchased an other SO3 after reading your comment.