Woodworkers? CAD guys?

[JD GUMBEE]

I sure would like to know more about the table units that can cut all those pretty corners/curves and slots in 4X8 wood/plastic.
Anyone here have experience with a home unit?
Or an old commercial model?

 

[maki2]

I am a woodworker and a 3D CAD person (female) and a CNC machine operator. I run a lot of CNC equipment including the type that use routers to cut wood and other non ferrous materials.
I have owned of the smaller sized router CNC's tables that holds trim routers.
I still own several computer controlled "routers".
I have run a 8' wide by 20' long cutter with a vacuum table hold down on which I was cutting impregnated carbon fiber materials.
I have access to and still use another one that can do flat table work as well as having a holder that rotates work for cutting around 360 degrees of rotation around an axis. But it is pretty much always set up for the 360" rotational axis. Lovely machine that has an automatic tool changer.
Plus I run a laser cutter, a vinyl cutter and a 3D printer.

What is it you want to know about them?

By the way don't just be calling out for "guys". Women are equally capable of proficiently using all the equipment you are inquiring about. Nowadays there are considerable numbers of women engaged in this type of work. They start all the kids, boys and girls learning how to do 3D CAD design and operate CNC machinery in early elementary school years. Teaching has changed considerably, the focus is on match, science and technology including shop classed and robotics for ALL students, not just for the boys. I dove right in and started building my own furniture in the early 1970s and I was employed as an architectural drafter when I was 19 years old. Almost 70 now, so I have a lifetime of doing these things.

 

[maki2]

JD....here is something new on the market to blow you away, there are now hand held CNC routers that give precise position readouts for making things like slots in the middle of boards.Here is a video about using this freehand controlled CNC router that is named "Shaper Origin".


You don't need a CAD program to create the design for the Shaper Origin, you can do it in free vector graphics programs such as Inkscape https://inkscape.org/ That is also true for many 2D CNC machines.

The Shaper Origin is very interesting in that in addition to locating the X and Y axis it also has Z axis control from the internal software. So after you insert the cutting bit you do a touch down so it recognizes the surface and then you input the depth of cut you want.

This is a video of one of the well know youtube channels, Laura Kampf woman maker from Germany, who is creating a walnut bookcase for herself. She is using the Shaper Origin to make decorative slots.

 

[JD GUMBEE]

Firstly, to me at least, "guys" means very much the same as when the lady used to yell, "HEY YOU GUYS" on one of the PBS shows. (Electric Company?) I was not trying to be sexist.

The reason I asked is, I am watching these "foamie" campers and how they get put together.
Like this one:
Can that machine(s) of yours cut this stuff?
These are STRONG as hell. Shockingly so.
Making a square box uses more fuel than something shaped something like this thing in the front:

^^^Video of what looks like a dual axle boat trailer turned into a metal "camper boat."

If one had the plans for doing it, I would think getting repeatable results would be easy by saving the info, right?

There is a BUNCH of people doing this, but none I have found use CAD with one of the tables and rotating cut blades.

Can you put an angle on the edges? (Thinking about the front angled in like a blunt-nose dolphin shape?)