I am wanting to make a 4ft by 4ft vacuum cutter like this. Do you have and video logs on how you made this.

Please share the plans for this machine. This is exactly what I want.

For G-code, which software do you use to generate it ,please???

Hi, Great table! Do you have anymore details on it? Did you base it on an existing CNC router or did you start from scratch? Any thoughts on using the hot cutter vs a laser? There are some pretty cheap 3W lasers available now.

@pyronaught

9 жыл бұрын

Chris Brent It was designed and built from scratch, the design constraints of a CNC router are just too different to port over to a fabric cutter. Pretty much nobody is building these for personal use in their garage, so there is nothing on the internet about how to do it. I looked at lasers, but other than the hazard to your eyes the big problem is that they require a special table surface that won't get burnt by the laser, and since this is such a large table surface that would get pretty expensive. My final hot cutter wound up being a butane powered soldering iron, which had the fastest heatup time, hottest tip temperature, is able to keep up with the heat loss when cutting and doesn't require AC power cords.

@ChrisCanMakeStuff

9 жыл бұрын

pyronaught Do you have dual steppers on your long (Y?) axis or did you go with an idler system? The width of the table seems to be a bit of a challenge compared to a router? It would be nice to be able to grab some of the openbuild type plates and wheels to get a carriage up and running quickly. Thanks for the laser insight. I started build on once with an aluminum bed, it wasn't too bad for cost, but drilling each hole by manual G code moves with a router attached was a pain. We never got the laser setup so I'm not sure how well it would have worked, but your style of tool head it would be easy to swap out. Really really nice machine you have there, I'm quite inspired to get building!

@pyronaught

9 жыл бұрын

Chris Brent I have dual steppers on the long axis, with dual limit switches too so that it can align itself when homing. Otherwise the gantry can get racked over time. I did use Maker Rail from inventables.com along with V-wheels and a similar belt drive for the short axis that is the same as what they are using for their Shapeoco CNC router. I put a forum entry on cnczone.com with more details on building this.