If you are thinking CNC as a hobby, or even small buisness, this is the way to go. I and many others with years of experience will always jump in to help you. Mahogany is really pricey and I don’t want. Probably the best thing about having a CarveWright woodworking system is the easy access to help on the forum. The Shapeoko XXL seems sturdy enough but then I have to tile the work after each area has been carved lending to issues with it lining up. I can stop it at regular intervals to let it cool down if I have to. It removes material with a spinning bit, by cutting or carving designs from a block of material set into the machine. The CarveWright has a moving system that can accomodate boards up to 12’ long in one cut. This article originally appeared in the October 2009 issue. You can think of the CarveWright CNC machine as a subtractive 3D printing system. It sells for $299.Ĭontact: CarveWright, LHR Technologies Inc., 4930 Allen Genoa Rd., Suite D, Pasadena, TX 77504. The team that revolutionized home woodworking in 2006 has done it again in 2010 with the new CarveWright Version C, an even more robust successor to the original groundbreaking table-top carving machine.
#Carvewright system software#
The STL software for the CarveWright system is a stand-alone program and can be used with other CNC systems.
"You can rotate and tilt the slices in any direction, you can set your slice depth at whatever size you want or you can just go in and cut the whole thing in half and then work out your slices," adds Lovchik. STL is commonly used in the printing industry.īut the ability to manipulate the slicing is the key to the machine and the new software. The CarveWright can use virtually any 3-D software, such as AutoDesk, Google SketchUp or Blender, which is then converted to a standard STL file format.
#Carvewright system Pc#
Once a model is created on a PC or Mac, the information is transferred from the computer to a memory card and the card is then inserted into the CarveWright. The CarveWright system uses a sophisticated, custom designed machine control language that communicates with our ServoSmart controller. And rather than have a computer directly linked to the machine, the CarveWright has its own computer.