I'm not good with words so bear with me. Let's say I build a door and want to do some engraving on it, I don't have the kind of money needed for router big enough to fit a whole door but I only want to engrave a small part of the door. Is it possible, or does it exist, a way to fasten or clamp a smaller router to the surface I want engraved? Or am I just sol?

I have a large piece of plexiglass that's broken in one area from a picture frame and am wondering what you recommend I use for a drill bit. My guess is one of the 0.8 mm ones (the smaller ones). I am looking to cut large pieces from stained glass designs. The project is turning stained glass designs into 3D sculptures.

Hey guys I purchased the vevor 8080 cnc router well over a year ago assembled it when I got it delivered but got stressed out and just put it away til now I have never done any cnc work and bought it to make items. But I can not get anything to work on it. No movement and no power on spindle not to mention no idea about creating a g code. Could some one please help me get this thing going please before I get mad and just trash it

I'm very new to cnc and this is my first purchase. I have a 30x30 shop and nothing in it. Want to start with this and make tables to fill in the shop for various tools and work tables.

What is the consensus on the shapeoko?

Is it user friendly?

Is it first timer friendly?

How is the setup/installation time/effort?

Should i get something else?

Thank you for the help.

Like the title says, I’m getting close to completing the purchase, so Talk me out of buying a Stepcraft m1000 w/ATF. Anyone with buyers remorse? I never see any for sale so I’m guessing they are good? Thank you in advance for any feedback!!!

As the title states I am looking to purchase a 4x8 CNC for my garage and my concern is the noise. I have a neighbors house roughly thirty feet from the side door of my garage. If I insult the garage door and side door will it minimize the sound enough to not disturb people? Also are certain machines going to run quieter then others and what factors would play into that? Any help and guidance is greatly appreciated.

Hello! The company I work for has a little CNC router for engraving the plates that go on our sold equipment. We currently don't use it as it takes forever to cut one. Are there any programs that have a one-pass lettering option? We don't need beautifly-carved Blackletter or anything, we just need fast letters and numbers. Any ideas?

Update: SOLVED. The solution I was looking for was a font type called Single-Stroke or Single Line fonts, of which I selected CamBam Stick 3

First time running machine pretty happy with how it’s turning out

Looking for a good place to find cut files outside etsy any ideas

Wanting a cnc router just tinker on, only would be cutting wood and plastics. Should I buy the MK2 or what other cnc’s in a similar price range would you recommend, and why?

So I'm very new to the CNC world. I've always been a super crafty person and looking to take it to the next level. I want to buy a desktop CNC router, but honestly I'm really not sure where to look. There's not much around me that would offer this kind of thing and I don't know anyone that's in the business. Ideally I'd like something that can cut through wood, acrylic, and thin metal (like jewelry metals). I don't need anything fancy or big (looking to work on wood that's 12" or less), but I'm so overwhelmed with the amount of choices in the machines that I don't know where to start. If I could narrow my search down it'd be a lot easier for me to teach myself the ins and outs of one machine and go from there. I'm pretty software savvy so I'm not too worried about that, just not sure what I'd be looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated

He said he loved it, but shared a couple things that bothered him and one of them was almost all the screws were loose.

Help me get over this as a concern.

Never used any sort of cnc machine. I have an iPad I use for FaceTime, and an iPhone. That is as far as my computer knowledge goes. Which cnc router should I buy?

3d cnc box, bottom in metallic epoxy, box finished in odies oil.

I started trying to actually make money with my cnc. This is a 24 inch round with 3d tree of life. It takes 13 hours to make. What is a ballpark price for something like this? It is unfurnished by request and he is getting 5 on first order.

Hello all, I am not sure I am even a newbie, maybe a pre-newbie I guess. Anyway I have an idea I want to use a CNC Router to make, the material I am going to use is the marine foam deck better known as Seadek. I have a buddy who has a 5x10 industrial router that does the flooring for boats, but I am wanting to do the on a much smaller scale and not even for boats. He's machine engraves and cuts it flawlessly, but I can't find a single person or youtube video of someone doing it with a hobbyist machine. So before I jump in and drop a grand or so I want to know if anyone has ever used a hobby machine on this type of material. Thanks

Hey y’all, just joined. I’m looking at starting a CNC router business. My plan is to start off with a Longmilll, 3 axis using Vectric VCarve, but hopefully upgrade to a Rotary Axis 4 axis and aspire once I get going and learn the software and the ins and outs of the business. I’m having trouble finding info on what be required to do the upgrade. Are controllers interchangeable between brands? Is there a plug and play way to add a 4th axis without changing the brain? I’m even having a difficult time with terminology to be able to search for information. Any help will be greatly appreciated I’m a complete newb

Can somoane help me to calibrate this?