Shopbot - How to Use

[@johnware5312]

Nice little demo there. The only thing I would do different is to add a ramp to the profile. A decent ramp cuts the wear on end mills down, so they last longer. Its also easier on the spindle too. My home brew CNC has a cutting area of 18 by 25 by 6. The controller program is Mach 3-- FAR friendlier than what comes with a shop bot . I use an old version of inventor (3d solid modeling program) where i need to make several parts that fit together in an assembly. Auto desk fusion works almost the same. For the basic 2.5 stuff I still use inventer but just save it as a dwg file. That is native to autocad. V-carve will import dwg files so that just makes it a bit simpler. For artwork type of stuff I clean up the artwork, if needed, with a program simulator to photoshop and convert them to gray scale or B and W . Tool pathing is done with V-carve. The hardware/software is different but the basic process is the same on any CNC..

[@J.Guiao.]

Great presentantion. Half an hour well spent. Thanks a lot!!!

[@amartinjoe]

very clear explanation. great presentation. well understood. thumbs up!!

[@adithyanilangovan1611]

Just what I've been looking for...thanks a lot

[@gregdodson5064]

Thanks. Learned a lot!

[@ericwinchell]

Great video

[@cringineering]

anyone know what temp i should use for foam?

[@paulfalceso3199]

Great

[@JF32304]

Why wait several minutes to get your spindle up to speed? not really going to hurt anything to ramp up to 200 right out of the gate.

[@adithyanilangovan1611]

cool :)

[@JF32304]

why oh why do people see the need to inject annoying music into their videos. I'll never understand this.