By his own admission, this is really CNC basics for hobby-grade CNC routers and mills. He starts off talking about his custom-built machine along ... about software for CAD and CAM.

router is a sophisticated computer-controlled machine tool version of a hand router. A CNC router routs out wood, plastic stock and other soft materials using a computer controlled system that runs ...

The application exports the halftone image to a DXF file which can be fed into the CAD application that he uses to control his CNC machine. The CNC does the rest, using a v-shaped router bit to ...

I deal with 3D cad, reverse engineering, product development and CAD CAM for 5 axes CNC routers. Most of our costumers just present an idea or a sketch and we prepare a 3D model for them. When ...