CNC help

I was hoping to be able to help, but I don’t have any experience with wood routing (CNC or otherwise). I can throw out some questions that might give others more info to work with…

Can you give an idea of your experience level with CNC equipment? CAD experience? Also related is your comfort level with learning software and stuff (would you seek out an “easy” user experience or are you willing to sacrifice ease for versatility?)

When you say “deep”, how deep do you anticipate? Also, what size pieces of wood do you anticipate using? Like, are you wanting to make cool jewelry boxes, some ornate doors, or something in-between? Both? Bigger? Smaller?

The “Shaper Origin” might be an option, depending on what you’re looking to do. It’s basically a trim router with CNC features that is currently being presold with a currently planned release in September of 2017. I plan for it to be my foray into CNC wood routing but I have no idea what I’ll end up making with it.

There are at least two threads about the Origin on the Glowforge forum…


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