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Re: CNC Mill or Router?

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
Shapeoko is going to be pretty underwhelming for FRC.
We purchased the 1000mm variant of the X-Carve about a week ago. It claims to have 31" x 31" of cutting space which would be fantastic for many FRC applications.

We've just started assembling it fully knowing we will need to upgrade some items. From the research I've done, it can handle aluminum if you purchase the correct end mills and use something like Inventor HSM to create efficient cutting paths. We're planning on publishing a white paper documenting our assembly process and any modifications needed to make it work well. Cost is around $1500 for the kit to assemble from Inventables - https://www.inventables.com/technologies/x-carve So far the assembly instructions include videos and pictures and has been relatively painless.
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