Has anyone experience with large, approximately 4.0′ X 8.0′ CNC Router machines?
Not looking for an Engraver.
I’m looking for routing to final size, (machining would be a better word), drilling, countersinking, and radiused edging.
Thanks for any help!
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The last company I worked for installed KOMO CNC routers in several millwork factories. We took all the operations off single and double spindle shapers and transfered them to that machine. The machine fully lived up to all the claims for speed, accuracy, and versatility. Foremen would have dumped just about all the secondary routing, shaping, and boring operations in the plant onto the machine since it would do them better than any equipment that required a skilled, hands on operator. I was skeptical that it could be that good, and I was proved wrong.
These are heavy, expensive machines. I don't know anything about smaller, lighter versions.
The capabilities of the machine far exceed anything you can do with physical jigging on mechanically, as opposed to digitally, controlled tools. Building with CNC tools what you can already build with mechanical tools is just the beginning of what these can do; but you will need a full time programmer to use the machine to its full potential, and that person will need a year to master tool path programming
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