3D TEST DRIVE HOMEMADE CNC Router for under $1000 including SMC controller

[Music] hello there and welcome to the workshop now today we're going to give this brand new midi cnc router which is a diy router if you're interested the all the plans and information and parts are available on my patreon pages so today we're going to give it its first real test run and we're going to give it a 3d carving to do on this piece of pine and we're going to cav in 3d the gryffindor emblem which you can see on the tv screen in the back there which i put together in kafka maker plus and again underneath the video you'll find a five percent discount code and a website to go to to use that code it only works on that website it's the uh united states uh cav distribution network okay so the first thing we do is i'm going to attach this to the bed all nice and square and then we will home the router so our first job now is to home the rotor simply done or shift until this goes dim and then push that button there and select here return to home press ok and it will do its thing okay so the next thing we're going to do now is i'm going to give it a work off set now to do that we just change the coordinate system here so it goes white and it comes up here you can see it comes up indicates that this is now the work coordinates so now we'll set the zero for the work coordinates and i'll just set the tool up here for first of all the x another y if you turn the the cutters you know there's two cutters on this so if you turn it one way you can sight the center up which i've marked with a little cross here and the z is very simple i've got a little bit slower for that like i've just adjusted the this to a slower level just come under here just a little bit faster at the moment [Music] and slow it down [Music] and what you're doing it you you bring this tool down so it just grabs the paper and it feels like a bit of a magnet on there and just feel it there grabbing it now and that's about right turn that off always turn your mpg that's what this is mpg off when it's not in use so now let's go just turn you to the screen so you can see what i'm doing okay so this time you press this button because i'm i'm now going to select each axis and zero it so we're in work coordinates okay so we're going to zero the x you can actually do it either by pressing this wheel pressing the okay using the selector or the the uh arrows to to um that's what we're going to do okay so here we go we're going to press ok because this is now highlighted in red goes green that goes to zero down to the next one why okay and said so now this is now set the work offset or the work coordinates otherwise known as the g54 so now we'll take this up out of the way and we'll do the first cut okay so we'll insert our thumb drive and open file let's just open the thunder thunder driving here is the two cuts so we want the roughing which is cut number one twelve millimeter and we're going to open that to make sure that's in there if we press this this shows you what g code the controller is looking at and there it is there and it's the correct one to get out of that press escape and now we can run the code oh first of all i'm going to like i normally do with either mac 3 or mac 4 or whatever i'm using i'm going to slow the feed rate down until i know how it's cutting and to do that you just do this if you notice the feed rate coming down in percentage terms i'm going to take it down to about 40 bring it in quietly and we'll see how it goes [Music] [Applause] do [Music] me [Music] and i just did a temperature check on the the motor and i think it was like 49 degrees c after you know million hours running uh under load with a half inch cutter did it without really thinking about it um [Music] really pleased with that little 800 watt motor um really pleased with the way it's performing i mean it's the first cut the third you know the first real cut as you can see this is now the following day um what i wanted to do was see whether the controller actually remembered where this was it sort of holds it in its flash memory where after being powered down and um so now i'm going to repower everything up and just change the tool and see if it does know exactly where it is okay let's fire it up and see if it remembers where it is um y zero x well that's pretty well zero as well ten millimeters above the zero point it seems to remember fine where it is and if we press shift now that is the machine coordinates now that's telling me that uh it the machine hasn't homed yet after turning the controller on um that's relative coordinates which we're not using so what i'm going to do is i'm going to first of all home the machine then tell the machine to go i'll tell the right ahead to go to back to the the zero point of the work it's okay reference chord let's see what happens [Music] now perfect okay so this is a three millimeter or eighth of an inch collet so pop that in there like that make sure that we have enough tools sticking out the idea is to get as much as the tool into the collet as you can just leave the cutting as much cut in the aj as you can nice and firm okay so the next job to do is to zero this tool now to the top of the work now i can do this on any part of the material here here doesn't really matter and obviously if i didn't have any of this untouched uh material you just get an odd scrap of material same size just put it on the bed and touch off that um i do intend in the very near future to make uh an you know auto tool setter for this just grabbed it there so we can now zero the z and i'll show you how to do that okay to zero the z we just go here to this one and then select we can either use the select wheel here or we can use the up down arrows like that and we can then press ok to zero the z and this is easy as that so now we'll put in a new program okay it's reading it so we escape out of that window open file and here it is here so [Music] and open file and it's the second operation that one there okay and okay and if you want to see the file just press this button and here it is here and to escape out of that you do that okay so now what we're going to do is cut it so let's do the finished cup i've set the uh feed all the way down to 30 but this is a very small tool uh i don't want to just go in and dig and snap the tool off so let's see how it performs so the moment it's ramping in i'll speed the feed up a little fifty percent so so i'm just altering the rpm of the the rotor so it sounds right but it is fairly quiet i'm just going to speed the feedback now 100 which is 25 millimeters per second put the rpm up a little bit better so [Music] okay so this is outside my workshop now and i've just taken a a base level sound reading this is fairly quiet so i just go in the midi cnc router is actually running in the workshop [Music] okay this is right next to it it's around about 80. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my [Music] hmm well there you go the first real test run of this new or newly finished little midi cnc rotor and and it's machining exactly as i designed it for and planned for this was cut at 25 millimeters per second maybe we'll be able to work it up to somewhere between 40 and 50 millimeters per second depends on what the job is i suppose um but it's you know it's done as good a job as my larger professional 6012 3d machining code nearly 15 000 lines of code did it without thinking about it um very controllable everything's very very manageable the g-code i've seen people say they always jittery well i don't know where you're getting your how you're writing the g-code this has come straight out of cav co maker plus incidentally i'll leave a link down below this video um [Music] above the comment section in the description where you if you're interested in any of the curved products um there's a five percent discount there for you whether it's monthly yearly by date right right across the board even the professional full-on cav curl you get five percent off it but you must go to the uh the address that's with that focusing code you can't sort of go for your local cat cav co distributor and expect it uh you know to get that five percent because that's not going to happen it's uh with that address that's directly to the american distributor but you can order it worldwide on that address and receive it and receive your focus outline okay um kafka yes i wrote i i've put this 3d model together in cavco maker plus because in capcom maker plus you can actually make 3d models and you know manipulate them but you can you can manipulate the 3d models in capcom maker you know you can import one from somewhere else it doesn't have to be in curved cup and then sort of put it together and do the feeds and speeds and set it all up and in fact the next video after this i will put this together in capcom maker plus and show you how to set up the everything speed feeds pick the tools create a tool um [Music] pretty well everything that you would need to know to do a 3d machine a 3d model bring it into calf co set it up in the right orientation okay bring it up to the right level although probably i could have brought this one up a bit deeper um and write the codes and then export the codes and that's another thing kevco [Music] there's no special post processor i just use the standard kavco standard g-code pulse processor go straight into this without a fault so for those who are having trouble saying that they're having trouble i don't know why uh i really don't um you know there's all sorts of con conflicting statements that are being made on the internet well to be quite honest with you i haven't come across one of them that is factual not with the new controllers so and i highly you know i mean if you wanna offline controller you know i mean i i it's a downside cheaper than anything else that you'll see out there you know it's it's cheaper than setting up mark 4 uh all mac 3 for that matter you don't have to have a computer it's standalone don't have to have a screen and some of the other um should we say offline controllers that you'll see um it's going to cost you over a thousand dollars by the time you set it up this is a this is a five axis controller the nearest one that's any good to this you're gonna pay over a thousand dollars for you know so anyway i can't find fault with the controller it's accepting g-code it runs 3d g-code absolutely no problem whatsoever very controllable i absolutely love it telling the truth and i think for future projects i will i'll buy another one i don't see why not it's it does the business so the next video will be a calco video putting this together in kafka maker plus and um well if you've liked the video please like and subscribe and i would like to thank the patrons for supporting this channel it's the patrons behind this channel that keeps it going and enables me to bring you things like this so if you'd like to become a patron patron information will be down in the video description area so thank you for joining me i hope you have enjoyed watching this first 3d test run of this midi cnc so if you're interested in a midi cnc router that i built for under a thousand dollars the plans parts list where i bought them from what i paid for are on my patreon pages and they are available to patrons so thank you for joining me and it's bye for now [Music] you

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Length: 29min 57sec (1797 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 06 2021