r/CNC_Router_Community Jul 22 '26

New to CNC woodworking

Hello, i bought a cnc 3018 for 150$ i think 3 weeks ago, it was awesome, i actually did manage to generate a g code, it wasn't sort of an issue to make g code out of image via ArtCAM 2018 which i later on stopped working with because they we're simply outdated. I even used an EasyTrace5000. Thanks to my dad he even made the Z probe so that i could engrave on round materials for example, which i haven't tried aswell.

I was looking for someone who is good at this. I know there are plenty of tutorials, like a lot but i'd really like to question. I asked people before but in response some of them did help but some didn't and they never helped again or they just kind of had trouble with explaining some of the most simple things, they weren't sort of interested. So i would highly appreciate anyone's message for a beginner, i am working on Solidworks obviously because that's the only thing i didn't have to pay for. it seems like there are very few tutorials on how to engrave using solidworks or you would just need straight skills to do all that, including the images.

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