...not to mention it is a great bending exercise... hope you take it as a joke, I am just kidding around. I really like your wood selection. What kind of species you have in your stash?
This can be used to make some decorative carvings for ships. I can use it to cut out ship parts like Blocks and fittings also. I will be using it to make Blocks and decorations for a Scratch Build of the Constellation. I made some blocks on the lathe and it wasn't much fun this router will make that job simple. I will definitely make a video of it doing its thing.
I'm using Sketch up, tinker cad, and now Fusion 360 I found a good book that helped with the learning curve in Fusion. I'm running the Machine on the software provided which is Arduino based Which I'm extremely familiar with because I am a Programmer as a hobby the name for it is called Grblcontrol (Candle). I also have Mach3 to run on and I have Easel and Inkscape.. for the laser Ill run elekcam 3.1 and GRBL laser. I like having options to run the unit on and options to design and editing. I will pic the best of the bunch to use mainly but keep the others just incase something gets updated and I no longer like the software. The Machine runs on G-code so I had to download converters for files like Jpg, Bmp, STL and such to G-Code format I was once pretty good with G-code but I haven't done a lot with it in a bunch of years because now things like 3D printers work on STL, DXF and such most programs for 3D can export in that format.
Depends on what you want to do Brother the Router could make 3D objects with a 4th axis or you could Mirror a design and glue the 2 halves together for a 3D look. All in all a 3D printer is more useful, but when its got to be make from wood the router is the tool for the job.
Sure can Brother I bought the router from Amazon I bought the one with the best warranty and customer support I also added a 2 year warranty through amazon just to be safe. I bought the 3018 Pro model a with upgrade The upgrade is the controller board and the offline controller from everything I have read about these machines. this frame is also better then the all t slot frame 3018 offering. The laser I bought from Sainsmart because it was made for my router perfectly without a ton of grief to get it operational. Everything you need is in the box all drivers and software are on a CD but the software is also posted on the internet since this uses an Arduino based system and chip this is an open source controller that also means a massive community backing the control hardware and software. Because its open source there are many software programs that interact with it such as Inkscape. Candle, Easel, Fusion 360, autocad, and a host of others this makes finding a friendly software much easier. The system comes with GrblControl which is Candle a very easy software to get good at. so really no need to use anything else until your familiar with CNC. the laser software is also included on the disc and is on the net. One thing is this system runs on G Code so being familiar with how this code runs CNC is a Plus. easy enough to go learn it online for free I did that many years ago when I was learning to Program Microchips learned it all on the net over a winter which Made one of my buddies very upset since he spent 4 years in college to learn it lol
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