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I started out wanting to build a CNC/3d printer originally, but eventually realized that 3d printers and CNC machines are completely different machines. For CNC, you want strong and slow. For 3d printers you want agile and fast. These two competing objectives make a combo machine kind of impractical. Now that I have a 3d printer and feel fairly comfortable with the additive process, I've decided to design and build a CNC machine. I'm planning to go small with my first design. I'll probably end up regretting this (I wish I had gone bigger on my printer), but I just don't have the room for a big machine. I'll use this page to document the progress. | I started out wanting to build a CNC/3d printer originally, but eventually realized that 3d printers and CNC machines are completely different machines. For CNC, you want strong and slow. For 3d printers you want agile and fast. These two competing objectives make a combo machine kind of impractical. Now that I have a 3d printer and feel fairly comfortable with the additive process, I've decided to design and build a CNC machine. I'm planning to go small with my first design. I'll probably end up regretting this (I wish I had gone bigger on my printer), but I just don't have the room for a big machine. I'll use this page to document the progress. | ||
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Revision as of 14:46, 27 February 2017
I started out wanting to build a CNC/3d printer originally, but eventually realized that 3d printers and CNC machines are completely different machines. For CNC, you want strong and slow. For 3d printers you want agile and fast. These two competing objectives make a combo machine kind of impractical. Now that I have a 3d printer and feel fairly comfortable with the additive process, I've decided to design and build a CNC machine. I'm planning to go small with my first design. I'll probably end up regretting this (I wish I had gone bigger on my printer), but I just don't have the room for a big machine. I'll use this page to document the progress.