How to persuade the knowledgable forum members to design me a CNC ?

[Boyan Silyavski]

You can find many answers to your questions on the forum.

Here for example are the free plans in Sketchup from my build. 1000x400x200mm. All parts cost 2800-3000eur with shipping included. It is incomparable to the 6040 and will outperform anything commercial i have seen 3x the price.

Unfortunately i have no free time now to revise the plans and make some changes that will even further better and cheapen the design and avoid the laser cut plates. The side plates that support the gantry could be made from profile instead as i plan on my next one , see pictures

Price can be further lowered if cheaper Chinese square supported rails are used instead of Hiwin.


But if you expect plans with BOM, i havent seen any good ever... To my standard i mean. And if i have to sit down, make the plans detailed with BOM and explaining all step by step, i don't see how that could be free.


Look also at other builds. There are many good designs here. That really outperform most of the commercial stuff under 20K.


You can not avoid drawing in CNC, now or later you will have to learn. So just enjoy the steps drawing your machine.

[jimbo_cnc]

It's true I need to learn to draw 3D. But designing and building a whole CNC is a lot to learn compared to drawing the simple bits I will be making with my CNC. I'm starting to get into it though, been reading some build threads.

I might just copy yours or someone else's that is similar or better than I need. I will read your thread now.