Thermwood 5 Axis Pattern Making

[Roberto01GM]

Nice precision machining. However, I've recently heard about digital fabrication technology and rapid prototyping machines that can output patterns directly from a 3D CAD model. Are you folks going to adopt digital fabrication (aka "additive" manufacturing)?

[ibainesy]

@Roberto01GM its both a good and bad technology.

Good: press a button walk away for a few hours.

Bad: Poor resolutions/Tolerance. (.1 increments i think it was last time I heard)

Good: good for one off jobs, with no Modifications.

Bad: Cannot be modified, unless put into another machine to modify it.

Bad: At the moment, can only print a special type of plastics, (a few different kinds, cheap and brittle, or expensive and... not flexible, but not brittle)

[maco10810]

Genius - really brilliant stuff

[arcaballista]

Hi! Ich suche einen CNC Fäser für einen Project - das ist nur ein oder zwei Teile was können Sie mir empfelen, gibt es Firmen, welche arbeiten mit Privatpersonen - wie Lohnarbeit oder so?

[snorhyveln]

..and I was thinking of getting myself a conventional woodlathing machine..?? IIImpressive!!!

[leszken]

so the only thing is to create 3D model, and machine will do the rest. As many times you want

incredible..

[2bomberman2]

Cool video. What CAM software do you use to program?

[OriginalAtomicSheep]

Jeez... how would one of those babies cost!

[crbrlfrost]

Who wrote the post for this machine?

[lasd79]

why doesn't the head make a spiral all the way arount in s simo 5 axis motion. Machine limitations or CAM software?

[inthefade]

neat.

[laconicdos]

Cool

[ggooddyy]

I am sorry, I d like to give you +1 not minus :-(.

[RonnyM82]

Hmm i recognize that! That would be the model i drew and got you guys to run. Nice to see you think its good enough to demo your machines capabilities! lol

[inagod]

theres a lot of people that have some great ideas,as this technology becomes more affordable,we will be seeing some exciting new products

[planetdarwin]

are there any shapes this machine cannot cut? assuming it was provided with an appropriate 3d model, could it carve a bust of lincoln?

[ThermwoodCNC]

The bust of lincoln would not be a problem to machine.