Strange X axis design

[Boyan Silyavski]

There are many builds from sheet material on the web, but almost nobody on this forum does that. |If you find the ribs expensive, then i dont know what you will think when people start giving you advice about motors, boards and so on. Cheap builds are destined to be imprecise and not worth the time and money spend on them.

At the other hand, from steel profile, supported linear rails and some aluminum you can do a nice machine. look around the builds section and see what people are doing here. It could inspire you.

What you have pointed as an example is a dirt cheap desktop cnc which could route soap or chocolate as the hardest material.