2Your Own CNC Router

Getting set up with your own machine involves either a lot of effort (home-build), a lot of money (purchasing a new machine), or both!

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Increasing demands on precision, speed, and the size of workpieces that can be machined makes the choice of hobby-grade machines increasingly narrow. You can always get a commercial shop to machine your parts for you, but this only makes economical sense if one or more of the following conditions are fulfilled:

  • You only need to produce a few parts
  • Your model is completely finished and you don’t need to produce more prototypes to achieve your desired result
  • You need to stick to tolerances that ...

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