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#1

I finally got my machine to the state where I can make pieces. Here is one of the first things I have cut from a zbrush model.

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#2

Do you intent to become a service provider?

http://www.nicolasdoyon.com/

#3

Heeeyyy,cool! Glad to see you got it working.:smiley:
Hope to see more,keep it up,J.

#4

Welcome to the club! I knew you can do it!!!
Great… now mill the heck out of that wood!
Cheers
Rainer

#5

Thanks for the reply. @ gkarnac, “a service provider”…not intentionally :slight_smile:
Lemo, I think I owe you one …but I don’t know which one.
jmeyer, some of your pieces need to be machined.

Here are a few pics of the machine during construction and testing. I had to use a 3 Hp spindle because of power limitations at this time. It was designed with a 8.2 Hp unit. It looks a bit like a rat rod now because I couldn’t wait to play with it. Cosmetic finishing will come later. Don’t have a vac system so I put a partially built studio fan behind it and just blow the dust out the door! (don’t have neighbors). I had the space and the material so I built it big. The usable area is about the size of a Ford Pinto (American standard) or 1600 mm X 3000 mm X 1200mm (rest of the world standard).

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#6

This is awesome, Congrats :slight_smile:
You should be able to mill any material with it, or just for wood?
Did you design and build the machine? or order a kit? any info about it would be great :slight_smile:
and what cnc software did you use?

Thanks in advance for your time and knowledge :slight_smile:

and again, congrats on getting it up n running :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Andy

#7

This is great, I have a tiny machine, 8 x 10 inches and just purchased zbrush to build models for my architectural work in a similar pipeline… anytips?

also is that a 5 axis machine?

#8

Looks like it is a single axis

#9

Tungerz, I designed and built it for wood only. It’s not heavy enough for metal. I use DeskProto to write the toolpath and Mach3 to run the machine.
DeskProto is one of the best apps I’ve used. It has a very intuitive user interface and it’s the right price.

holyjewsus; the only tip I have is to jump in and do it. My machine is a four axis, I haven’t put the tail stock on in these pictures. 5 axis is more than “one step beyond” :slight_smile:

Thanks for comments, I will post new things as I make them.

#10

Awesome, thanks for the info, 4axis is cool, that is going to crank out some amazing pieces.

Thanks again :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Andy

#11

This is an awesome setup! I’m just starting out but that’s what I want to figure out: how to go from ZBrush to my little CNC. So much info out there it’s confusing. I just want to talk to someone who has done it already. Any advice or links to what helped you learn?