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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148719403321

Autore

Ford Edward (Edward Bruce)

Titolo

Getting started with CNC / / Edward Ford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Maker Media, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4571-8332-3

1-4571-8335-8

1-4571-8334-X

1-4571-8336-6

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

621.9023

Soggetti

Machine-tools - Numerical control - Programming

Routers (Tools) - Automation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Personal Digital Fabrication with Shapeoko and Other Computer-Controlled Routers"--Cover.

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

Getting Started with CNC is the definitive introduction to working with affordable desktop and benchtop CNCs, written by the creator of the popular open hardware CNC, the Shapeoko. Accessible 3D printing introduced the masses to computer-controlled additive fabrication. But the flip side of that is subtractive fabrication: instead of adding material to create a shape like a 3D printer does, a CNC starts with a solid piece of material and takes away from it. Although inexpensive 3D printers can make great things with plastic, a CNC can carve highly durable pieces out of a block of aluminum, wood, and other materials. This book covers the fundamentals of designing for--and working with--affordable ($500-$3000) CNCs.