Making Custom Fit Tool Storage with a CNC | Easy CNC Projects

this video is sponsored by carbide 3d maker of the shea poco line of cnc's one thing that prevents a lot of people from getting into cnc is they're worried about the complexity of the software and the learning curve but with this video i'm going to show you step by step how i made this clamp rack to organize my small clamps and then i'll show you some other projects i made using the same steps so you can repeat this over and over it doesn't matter what type of project you're making stick around at the end of the video and i'll tell you how to get all the files you see me programmed today for free before we get started if you'd like to learn more about shea poco or their line of cnc's i'll put a link in the description below you can go check them out for yourself really i'm all about time savings and if someone else has already created a file or at least an svg in other words an image outline of that file that can save me tons of time and get me cutting faster so that's what i'm going to do a lot of times i like to go to etsy or cut rocket etsy you'll have to buy the files cut rocket the files are free but there's less on cut rockets so coming into etsy i go to just if whatever you're looking for whatever type file so i always put c and c and then whatever you're looking for cnc clamp rack in this case and then scroll down until i find one that i like i like the looks of this one here from dry forge creative open that up and then it looks like a nice little file so all you have to do is add that to the cart and purchase it if you're going to use cut rocket which is an excellent resource for cnc files especially if you're new you can look under tool sign stores the sorting of these is a little weird because sometimes you'll find tool things under organization we'll click tools you can go down where you see different types of stuff that you can download this one here says harbor freight clamp rack we'll check that and you can see that it's pretty cool and then from there you just download the project no matter which place you've chosen to download the file from all you have to do is go to the import tab click that so if you download from cut rocket you'll see the c2d file you can open that up you also import svg or dxf files into carbide create the exact same way as you see here i was able to import this file and then you can tweak it and delete things as you want or don't need however a lot of times these tool paths aren't set and that's where you'll have to do the work but you've saved a ton of time because now you have a basic footprint of the file that's what i like about getting those files from etsy or cut rocket or my website because we put them there as well i'm gonna be using three quarter inch plywood i just like the thickness of it and to set this file up it's pretty easy i've got two different kind of clamps here i've got a bessie clamp and a tay tools clamp these are both small clamps and first thing you need to do is just measure the bar thickness on this one it's just about 3 16 of an inch and on this one we are about the same so that's good so we want to make sure that these slots right here are at least a quarter inch thick so that it slides in there really easy and they are because i have my grid set at three quarter if you click on the design and then that little table looking thing that's your grid spacing it's .25 which is a quarter that's what we want to set the tool pass we're going to click on this design and then click contour which means cut it's going to cut it out so we want to use the stock bottom which is .75 or whatever thickness material you're using we want it to cut on the inside so that because if you cut on the outside it's going to be wider than than a quarter inch in those gaps but if you cut on the inside then it's going to be one quarter inch when it's cut we're going to set our tool and i'm going to set mine uh soft wood since we're using plywoods go to end mill and then i'm going to use a 1 8 inch down cut now i do want to put some tabs on here so that it doesn't roll around after you cut it all the way out you just pick a couple of places on here that you're going to be able to easily get to them but it's going to hold it in place after it gets through cutting in other words it's going to be cutting it's going to raise up and leave a place so that it doesn't come loose so make sure you add a couple of three tabs on here just so that it doesn't move on you on this one though you want to make sure you got on the outside right that way it leaves that exact size same thing with these braces you want to make sure that you're leaving you're cutting the outside and then you'll put a tab or two on there as well once you get all the tool paths set you just save the g-code in other words you're going to save this code so that you tell the program that runs the cnc what it needs to do so all you do is click save gcode and then you'll name it whatever you want so this one we'll just put 731 clamp bracket now what i want to show you on motion one of the great things they've added recently was let's take this piece this back piece for instance so instead of 0.75 i mess up and i put 7.5 inches right that's gonna mean that cnc bit is going to try to drive down seven and a half inches deep that could be a catastrophe carbide create is where we design our project and carbide motion is what controls the cnc they're two different programs but they work together when you save the g code then you load the g code into motion which tells the cnc what to do so just open up carbide motion one of the great things about that when we put that error in there earlier remember i'm going to load that file up and that's going to be the the bad one right here what i really like about the new version the newer versions of motion if you don't have it go get it if you look at the front view you can see this giant hole right there that's not that's not supposed to be there that should not look like that what that's saying is that bit is going to drive down that deep and our stock right here you can see that it's not near that deep it's only three quarters of an inch you want to make sure that you check that front view for sure so now let's load the correct file and how i get these files onto this laptop from my other i just email it to myself but if you're just using one laptop you don't have to worry about that so this is a correct file and we're going to look at the front view this is to see this is how it's supposed to look you can see that the thickness is here and then you can see all the cuts are going to happen right inside that plane once we've done that i'm just going to go ahead and initialize the machine that's just going to get everything set basically initializing means it goes over to the corner and touches off the touch off point and then comes to the front all that's doing is basically saying okay i'm ready to go and then it comes up here for you to load the bit once the bit is loaded you just click resume and it's going to come over and touch off this edge point so that it sets the depth of the bit to the table and it knows exactly where it's at one of the great things i like about the chapoco line of cnc's is they come with everything you need they got all these clamps that come with it these work holds some bits to get you started dust collection parts everything and one thing you quickly learn about cnc is if it ain't held down things go bad fast so it's good that they include these things once we have the material loaded on we're going to set zero i always set my zero at the bottom left but there are times when you may need to do it in the center like if you're doing circles or different things like that but we're going bottom left on this one really this is the slowest part of it is when you just kind of eyeballing everything you want to make sure it gets over there i like to get it to where it touches the very top of that and sometimes that takes a minute just to get everything set just right i like where that's at so that's what we're going to set i also want to add some magnets so that i can stick them to the back of this now you can screw it to a wall or you can make a french cleat on the back however you want to mount it but i'm going to do rare earth magnets i'm just going to take a caliper and measure and this one's at 1.16 around so i'll make that that cut will be about 1.17 i want it just barely over and then for the thickness it's right at .10 so i'll make it .09 i'm gonna put three of them on there i think that'll hold the clamps up there and from here i'm just going to add this to the file and we'll make those circles across the back evenly spaced out and then the dimensions i just set now from there we're just going to start the job and hope everything goes as planned we'll see how it turns out all right so i encountered a little trouble and that was my fault and that's the thing about cnc is it will only do what you tell it to do uh one is the circles that i cut for the magnets were too big because for some reason i was thinking 1.6 instead of 1.16 in diameter so i have fixed that in the file and on is cutting this brace apparently i forgot to put tabs on it because it cut it all the way out which makes it loose which makes it get into the bit we're going to fix those two pieces set that up we'll recut and see what we got that's what's great about leaving those tabs that stuff doesn't move as long as it didn't get all the way cut through so that keeps everything nice and in place while your cnc does the rest of the work this is a handy little tool to have if you have a cnc to cut those tabs now it's time to assemble this it should be pretty easy i have decided that i don't need these big blocks so i'm just going to use these little ones and we're going to just space them evenly right there on the outside edge make sure you turn the holes to the back for the magnets i'm going to use wood glue but i'm also going to use some ca glue to just kind of help hold it while that wood glue dries since we're not building a clock i'm just going to eyeball it i think ca glue will be just enough to hold the braces and ca glue for the magnets now see if this thing will hold clamps i'm a little worried that the magnets aren't going to be strong enough but we'll see [Applause] dang it back super fast way to add some clamp storage to the workbench or the wall or wherever you want to hang these at you can put them anywhere i wish the magnets had worked out but trial in there if i had stronger magnets i think it would work but it worked out i actually like it here better i think than stuck on the workbench over there another awesome thing i made with the cnc was a tool holder for the cnc i've got all my bits my most commonly used bits in here and then also i can hold my box cutter where i cut the double stick tape then i have a place for my caliper so always able to find it when i need it of course wrenches allen keys everything i need as far as bits and wrenches go stays in this drawer and the great thing about the cnc is you can customize anything you want to fit just about anywhere you want well this drawer insert i just use half inch mdf that's more than enough for just sitting in the drawer i cut every one of these pockets at 0.2 inches deep and then just various lengths just whatever i thought i would need i made them a little longer than each bit i actually made them to fit these holders from bits and bits because that's where i get my bits from 90 of the time but also made some extra long just in case i had something else that needed to go in there i just thought about what i would like to have what type of holder what i would like organized and then i made it to the way i wanted it as you can see there is a little place side to side so that i don't i don't want it just to be super tight there's no reason for that but once it's in there it looks like it's custom fit to that drawer with this drawer insert i did a very similar thing i just went to cut rocket and found a file that was kind of close to what i liked download that file and then i tweaked it to fit my needs and what that meant was i added a couple extra trays added my own caliper outline in there so that it fit my caliper like i wanted it to and then i just added some extra little trays and things to hold some more bits than the actual file had originally and for the router trays and the walnut tray which is just a spin off of one of my router trays i did the exact same thing i brought everything into carbide create and just tweaked it like i wanted it as far as the width the length and all the pockets now for the caliper outline and the allen wrench outline i just searched that on google caliper outline svg allen wrench svg and found ones that i liked and brought them imported them into the file and then set the cut depth and the length and the width and all that to fit my specific wrenches and caliper this thing is a money maker for a shop i've proved it with the cells we've had at 7 31. andy bird has proved it with the 10 000 with the cnc he's done i'll link that video in the description but it's also just fun to have being able to make custom projects like you've seen today is just fun if you want to get all these files that you saw me program today for free the clamp rack the drawer insert and the router table trays all you have to do is click the link in the description below and sign up for the 731 email newsletter i send out regular emails letting you know about new content as well as new products and plans sign up get the files for free there may be some information that i didn't cover in the video that you have a question about please feel free to ask in the comments below i'll answer the best i can however if you go to my.carbide3d.com there is a wealth of information there from starting out as an absolute beginner knowing nothing to making your first projects that's really good information since filming this carbide put out a brand new update to their car by create software which you can download for free i'll put a link in the description below to the latest version they've added some really great features that's one of the things i really appreciate about carbide is they're constantly trying to incorporate feedback from their customers and their team into their product to make it better

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Length: 12min 17sec (737 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 25 2022