Shopbot

The shopbot is a wood CNC router in the woodshop. Classes are in the process of being designed.

Software

There are several ways to generate the g-code required for LinuxCNC to use the shopbot.

For very simple applications: http://easel.inventables.com/

For more advanced: http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview

Problems

One problem that has been encountered is that due to trying to keep the feed rate up, the motion planner will cut some corners. To prevent this add the line to your program: "G64 P0.001". This will tell it to keep deviations to less than 0.001 units (mm or in), while still attempting to keep the speed up as much as possible.

Contacts

• James Lancaster
• Curt Gridley