7 months by cncdivi
If you’re contemplating the purchase of a professional grade CNC machine tool for the first time, it would be of great interest to view this piece by Carbide3D. It elaborates on their experience in administering a Haas VF-2SS for manufacturing several of their commercial products, including their Nomad and Shape Ooko 3 CNC Mills.
The new Haas VMC at Carbide3D…
No doubt there are a lot of things that will be different and worth knowing about if you’ve never bought a machine like this before. Topics range from discounting to tooling packages to the magnitude of effort required to set the machine up, get it wired for electrical, and get it running. Definitely fun stuff to check into!
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Bob is responsible for the development and implementation of the popular G-Wizard CNC Software. Bob is also the founder of CNCCookbook, the largest CNC-related blog on the Internet.
Interesting read. There seem to be a lot of small companies, startups, at the moment building small milling machines for the home market, not so keen on the aluminum framed machines but that’s just me. It’s definitely an investment.