Hello and welcome back. Before I start with this video
I want to give some context. I have two workshops so I'm a really lucky guy. I have the big workshop that you mostly see in
the videos with the big machinery and everything. But I have also a smaller workshop at home. And one of the first world problems that I
have is that I use the Shaper Origin a lot. And I have one Shaper and so I have to
bring it with me to the different workshops. Sometimes I forget it in one or sometimes I
think I won't need it so I leave it there. And then I go home and then I realize
oh crap I need it and it's not here. So I've been tossing around the idea of
buying a second Shaper for a while now. It's obviously expensive but
it's also annoying that problem. And so I figured I would gather a little
bit of the money I make through the channel. Then toss in some additional
money and just buy a second one. And so that's what I did: I bought
myself a second Shaper Origin. And if you think that's decadent: I am with you. This is a first world problem and
obviously one Shaper is more than enough. But two is better than one! And so now that I got it I thought I could just
make an unpacking and getting started video. Given that it's brand new and I can
unpack it and show you how to do that. If you are in the lucky position of
either having just bought your Shaper or you're planning to buy one then this
video can maybe help you a little bit. If you already have a Shaper there's
no need for you to watch this and just click on to my playlist with other
Shaper Origin tips and tricks. Alright let's get started let's unpack this baby. This is your new wonder machine. Here you have the Shaper, a little tube
for the vacuum and some additional gear. I'll take that out of the box
and show it to you in a second. Okay so you see I took everything out of the box. We have the Shaper machine. Then we have this little lid here
that you put on your Shaper here. You will put that to make sure
nothing flies out into your eyes, it's for safety so you don't put
your fingers into the running router. We have this little pipe here, a tube
that you attach to your vacuum cleaner, I'll say more about this afterwards. And then you have this
little bag here that contains all the useful gear that you need
to get started with your Shaper. To get started first you need to remove the two security elements that you
have for transporting the Shaper. This little thingy here and then
there is another one down there. For this you move your spindle
up and then you can remove that. These two things I would recommend you
store away in the box of the Shaper. In case you need to transport
it, not when you move it around within your workshop or something like that. But if you have a problem with
your Shaper, if it's not working. Then you need to ship it in so they
can fix it, then you will need that. And that actually happened to me. Once my Shaper
was broken and I had to use these to ship it in. Then the other thing that you need to do is
you need to remove this little instruction. And below you see me - hello - but
you also see the screen of the Shaper. Within this magic bag here you have a
couple of things, lets look at them. You have some router bits, you get three
of them, to start with your Shaper. I'll talk more about this in a second. You have also one of those tools here to open
and close the collet that mounts the router bits. You have a little USB stick in case
that you want to upload your files to the Shaper with a USB stick. You get two of the Domino ShaperTapes to get started and you have this little
key here to unmount your spindle. That's it, you see that it's empty. Let's start with the router bits. You get different router
bits with your Shaper Origin. In the us you get different sizes than in Europe First of all you have a
large one like this one here. That's eight millimeters in Europe
and a quarter inch in the US You get also a small one like this here
which is three millimeters in Europe and an 1/8 inch in the US And you get a bit to engrave things. Now I just realized looking
at this bit that this one here seems to be different than the one
I got when I bought my first Shaper. So this looks a lot more like the script
bit from Festool that I have a video about So it might be that Shaper
actually realized that the engraving bit they were delivering with the Shaper
was no good and they changed it for this one. So I'll have to give it a try,
because I I don't know that one. The Shaper Origin consists of two main elements. You have the Shaper the main Shaper station with the computer
built in and the camera and everything. And you have the spindle. So to unmount the spindle you have to unscrew
this screw here and then you can just remove it. It is attached to your main station
with a power plug like that. So it may be funny to say but the Shaper consists of these
two elements one is smart and one is dumb . So this here is the smart unit, it's a Shaper
Origin with the computer and everything in it. It controls this element here this
little arm where the spindle is mounted. The spindle itself is just a dumb router like every other router you
would buy for a couple hundred dollars. It's just a router that turns
the router bits and that's it It has an on and off button here and an
element to control the speed that's it. And so by itself this is
really a stupid element because it just spins if it's turned on or
it doesn't spin if it's turned off. And all the smartness is in this device. To put your router bit in your collet you just... Oh it's a little bit tight
here it seems to be new. You put it in then you have this button here you press it with
your hand, close it and once it's tight here You take this little tool here
and not too tight don't go crazy like with all these things
just tighten it and that's it. So that's it, your router bit is mounted
and then you put it back in your Shaper. Don't forget to tighten this screw here because only when this is tightened
the Shaper can control the spindle. Then obviously you have to plug it
in into your Shaper and that's it. So we prepared the Shaper with a router bit. You can put this little lid here, it's
magnetic so that's really convenient To turn on your Shaper Origin
you only need to plug it in, it has no on off button you
just plug it in and it will boot So you see now it's starting,
you get the Shaper Origin logo and it's starting this little operating system
that it has because it's like a little computer. You get first an option to choose the language. I will keep it in English so you can
understand and read what you're seeing here. Normally I would choose German. I need to select the country which for
me is Switzerland so that's pre-selected. Now it asks you to connect to a Wi-Fi. So there are two ways to get updates
and files onto your Shaper Origin. Through Wi-Fi or through that little USB
stick that you get in your little bag. The Wi-Fi is more convenient, obviously. If you don't have Wi-Fi in your workshop
you can also teether your phone. I have Wi-Fi here, so I
will select that and I will enter the password, which I'm
not going to show you here. So that's it, I entered the password,
connect and it will hook up to my Wi-Fi Now it will ask you to either
create a Shaper Origin account. That's an account on Shaper to log in. It is important that you get one of those
accounts because that's how you upload files. You can upload your files or you can also download files that others did and that
they're providing on the Shaper Hub. There are tons of projects you can look
into, you can get instructions and you can download those files onto your Shaper. That's all done through this account and so
if you don't have one you can create one here. I obviously have one so I will
enter mine and then continue. Now it tells me I'm ready to go.
Well right on, that was easy. You see here your settings,
it's connected to Wi-Fi, it has my profile you see what
kind of operating system it has. You'll get from time to time updates from Shaper. And you can set here the metric,
if it's in millimeter or inches. That's it and your Shaper is now ready to be used. One of the key elements of the
Shaper Origin is the ShaperTape. There are those domino tapes here
that you might have seen on videos of people showing how to do things with a Shaper. You can buy them directly through Shaper
or you can also print your own ShaperTape. I have videos about that too. The Shaper needs those dominoes to orient itself. You need to apply them to your work
piece and then scan the surface. So the Shaper can learn how your work piece looks and that way the Shaper
knows all the time where it's located. For this you need to apply ShaperTape
to your work piece and I did that here. The recommendation is to leave between
each tape about eight centimeters so it's about three inches. I usually go a little bit
narrower than that just because I think it's a pain when it loses orientation. So you see that's what I did here. I just used a simple board and
applied a couple of ShaperTapes. You can see how that looks like when
you put your Shaper on your work piece. You have the ShaperTape there, you
see here that we see the ShaperTape. That is the ShaperTape through a camera. So through this camera you
can scan your workpiece. So we'll do that right now. You see here we have the little green
start scan and the green button. And that is the right hand side
button you have here on your Shaper. And cancel here that's the orange one
you have that on the left hand side. If you want to start the scan then press
the green button and it starts scanning. What you see here is your work
piece and what the Shaper sees. So you can move the Shaper and you see how
it recognizes the end of your work piece. I move it back and it recognizes the work piece. You can turn it but you always have to make sure that there is a little bit of
the tape visible to the camera. Else if you do this it will tell you
"Orient Origin towards already scanned tape" It needs a little bit of tape to know where it is. You can turn it and so it
will take all those pictures. Now you see I don't have the end of that
board but I would like to know where it ends. So I just turn it like this, it loses orientation
but I move it back and now it sees the tape. Now I can continue until the
end of this board is reached. When you did all the scanning then you have press the green button and it
will update your workspace. Now the Shaper creates a workspace
with that ShaperTape and it stores it. Everything you do with your Shaper
it will store in your workspace When you cut a shape or something it
will know that and it will save it. If you move your Shaper to a new workpiece and
do a new scan, this old scan is still there. The Shaper will use the camera to scan and
realize what work space are you currently in. So you move it to a new one, you scan it, you move it back onto the old one and
it will recognize it's on this old one It will tell you "should I
load this old workspace?" So that's super convenient. So right we now we have a workspace. What is the next step? We need to either load a shape into the Shaper
through the account or create one yourself I press import, i'll go in
the *table names* folder You see here I have different names that
I created and to engrave into my tables. If I want to select this name here
I press the file and it will open. So that's the name and then
you need to select the size. It has a certain size, that's the size that
you created in your vector graphics software. But you might want to change that and
so you have a couple of options here. You can scale it, you can select the size. We can for instance change this here to a
height of 50 millimeters it will keep the ratio If you want to change the ratio you need to
press this one so it untangles height and width. I could now say for instance I want
300 width which would then distort it I don't want that, that looks ugly so I will
cancel this here and then import the name again You can also rotate the file by different angles If you want to place it like that or not. Then you can set the anchor. So the anchor is important because
the Shaper Origin basically uses the tip of the router as the
point where it places the graphic So you see here that little square here,
that's where currently the anchor is. So that's on the bottom, you can also say I
want to center it and then it's like that. So you will have to play around a
little bit to make sure you place the the shape on the right position. The moment you think the
file is on the right place you can press the green
button and it will place this I will not do this right now. I'll cancel this with the orange button because I
want to show you the other options. You have a "Create" button
and you have a "Grid" button So the grid one is to create a grid that you can
use to orient the shapes exactly on a square grid. I will not show you how to use that. There are videos from Shaper
showing you how to do that. I think that's something that
you can use as a second step. If you get started with your Shaper then you
can stay more simple and just place an object. The other option is to create things
in your Shaper without a computer. You can create circles or rectangles you
can write things or you have a pen tool. You also have a little tool to create box joints. I will only use a simple circle
you can set a diameter here. I will say 10 centimeters and so
you see here we have this circle. I can go somewhere and I can place it. You see when I move the Shaper then I see
the tape here so I know where I am right and I'll place it just here. All right if you have that then you have already one design element
here which is that simple circle. If I want to cut that circle
now I need to go to cut and in cut you will have a
couple of important elements. Here on the left hand side you see this is
the cut depth. It's set to 5 millimeters. You can say "engrave" that's when you are engraving something and you
want it to be very very thin. You can set different depths and you can say
"aircut", which means it doesn't really cut. So how deep should you go? The recommendation is that you should never
go deeper than the width of your router bit So if you for instance use
a an 1/8 inch router bit then you should not cut
deeper than 1/8 inch per pass. You can cut an 1/8 inch and then when it's
cut you can set it to 1/4 inch and cut again. So you take it in multiple passes, because the deeper you go the more the pressure
on your router, on your Shaper, on the material And things can happen, it can
just go in the wrong direction and you will screw up your
project, and you don't want that. In general I recommend to take multiple
passes if you're not in a rush. Which I hope you're not because you should
enjoy it and not trying to rush things. Take small cuts, I typically go around
two to three millimeters per pass. Then this is a button for
an offset so that's when you don't want to cut on the line that you
set but maybe one millimeter next to it. You need to select the router bit and so this is
the European machine and my router bit is 8mm. So I can just select 8mm and if I do that then the
Shaper realizes "oh there's a new bit in there". Now it needs to learn how you mounted that bit. Because when you put the bit in,
you mount it in different heights. Depending on how you mounted the bit,
it will be in a different location. The Shaper needs to learn what the
distance is between the spindle, the tip of the router bit and your work piece You do that through this Z-touch. It asks you if you want to
do a z-touch you say yes. And now it will move down the spindle
and it will learn where the bit is So it learned where your router bit is and
then once you have that you're ready to cut. If I want to cut now I press on the
green button but it will not cut. Thats because it cannot start cutting
when the spindle is turned off It's because as I explained
to you, the spindle is stupid. The spindle is not connected to the Shaper
and starts turning when you want to cut. You actually need to turn on your spindle
with the button that you have here. Here you have the button "On/Off" and if I turn
this on, then the spindle will start spinning. So this will be really loud and
I won't be able to speak to you. Only when you have your spindle turned
on, you'll be able to cut something. So these are separate things, turn on
the spindle and then start cutting. One important element to understand on your
Shaper is this little circle that you have here. The circle shows you the area that the
Shaper can use to correct the spindle. Because when you move along your shape, you will never do that perfectly
- you're just a human being. You will move it more to left
or more to the right right and the Shaper knows exactly where
the spindle is and can course correct. That's how you get the nice shape. And so within this circle is the
wiggle room that the Shaper has. If you move it way off, then it won't be able
to correct for that because it's too much of a distance that you created. Then it will move up the spindle because it
will realize if I continue along that way I will ruin your workpiece To be honest, if you do it too quick it won't be moving it up in time and
you will actually ruin your workpiece So you need to try to stay
within that circle for it to work To cut with your Shaper, put
both hands on the Shaper Origin You turn it on, then you lower it into where you want to cut and you
start moving it in the direction. You see here that this little line is moving in a direction so
that's the direction the Shaper wants you to move. You're not free to move in any direction you'd
like - except if you're doing a pocket cut. If you're doing a line cut like this one
here, you have to move in that direction. So you move in that direction slowly but steady
and you try to keep it always on that line. Always on that line to make sure um you're not moving too far off
to prevent the Shaper to move up the spindle. When you move it you always make
sure it sees enough ShaperTape. I can't suddenly turn it like that because now you see it shows you here on
the on this little domino symbol here that it does not see enough ShaperTape. And if it doesn't see the tape
it doesn't know where it is and so it will stop working
it will move up the spindle Then it will tell you go to a
place where it can see domino tape. So if I move it back I will have to cut like that. Always keep the camera facing to the ShaperTape. Let's get that done, i'll cut this circle
here quickly to do an illustration. Only one millimeter deep, I'll hook up the vacuum
so I prevent my workshop from getting dusty All right that was it that was the
first cut with my new Shaper Origin. Isn't that exciting? Let's check how that turned out. It's obviously just a simple circle. Did it work out? Oh yes it
did, let me show that to you. That's it, fantastic. That's mostly it,
that's how you start with your Shaper. What I would recommend to you is that you
take a little board, nothing important. You put ShaperTape on it
and then you put a couple of circles, squares, maybe something
written, a couple of files. Don't work immediately on the
thing that you want to create, because it will take a while to
get accustomed to the machinery, to how the software works, to the
different bit sizes all these things. So try it out and then you move on, once
you have a little bit more experience. One more thing: before I told you
that you have this little tube here. Actually I don't know what the right word
is in English, is it tube or is pipe? I don't know, well you have
this little thing here, that you use to connect it to your
vacuum cleaner for dust collection. So funny thing is that if you have a Festool vacuum, then you can plug that in directly
into the Shaper Origin dust collection system. Because the Shaper Origin actually belongs
to Festool now and so that's the right size. You might need this if you have another
dust collector, so I don't need that So you make sure you check it
out if you really need it or not. This is embarrassing to say,
but for a while I always used this because I never realized
I could plug it in directly. Until one day I realized that and I was like
"DUH!", an additional work step for nothing. So this I don't need in my workshop for now. Okay that's it, that was the unpacking and
getting started video with the Shaper Origin. I think that's it for now what I will do
is in a couple weeks, I'll post a video summarizing all the additional gear that I
think that you should buy to get started. I have a bunch of videos showing
different router bits and different things. So I'll put all of that together and do a
summary video of what additional gear that you might benefit from, based on my experience. So stay tuned about that. I hope you liked this little video. If you did: thumbs up, subscribe
to my channel and see you around...
