Interest in LowRider3 for cabinets, storage and furniture

I cut melamine and veneer fine on my dewalt. I use a fine finish blade and made a zero clearance plate for the saw. If I’m being extra careful I could put painter’s tape along the cut and flip the board after scoring the cut but I don’t find it’s necessary.

A big heavy cast iron table saw is nice for the larger wings and table size and less vibration from the mass but I haven’t found it a necessity for anything I’ve done so far.

Early in my career I was involved in industrial automation, converting machines with mechanical sequencers and relays to PLCs. I enjoyed several projects of redesigning motion and process controls on plant floors. Then my focus shifted to working with engineers to use CAD systems to design new processes and products. Then another shift to customizing ERP systems to improve labor productivity on plant floors.
I had been away from the hands on work of motion control for many years when I began doing renovation projects on my home in Nashville. New oak staircase. Custom closet organizer for my wife. These I did with a cheap Porter-Cable jobsite saw. My 2-car garage (more like 1 1/2 car) would temporarily become my woodworking shop.
When I moved to Arizona I knew I had to have a woodworking shop. And I bought a house knowing I wanted to renovate it. I saw a few YouTube videos of Ryan’s machines and knew I had to build one some day. That day came when my wife asked for new kitchen cabinets and island. I had it laid out in Fusion 360 and approved by the boss and then I told her I would be building a CNC machine to mill the sheet goods. The rest is history…

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If you can speed things up with your CAD, you can easily add touches a table saw cannot easily.

Going to Vectric Aspire from Inkscape/Eastlcam combo was what made it all work for me.

@tgm022861 was my inspiration for a full size machine with NEMA 23s, the image of these cabinet parts cut out of the full sheet ply was enough to convince me.

Again huge thanks @Ryan and forum contributers.

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I love the vetric software :smiley:

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On their website they say trial version does not have limitation in time, do you know what are the limitations they apply ?
Aspire licence cost is not affordable for a hobbyst :frowning:

It won’t generate gcode except for their demo projects will export and you can test your setup You can create projects and it will show previews ect but not export. Those projects can be exported only on the machine they were created on after payment

V-carve pro and desktop have done everything i have needed but i don’t do a lot of 3D that would require aspire. Vcarve does do some of the 3D and rotary and importing of stl file only 1 per project

Thanks

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Those cabinets certainly did come out quite nice.

I am curious, did Tony spend more time admiring the cabinets, or admiring your supersized LR2 :smiling_face:

Probably the cabinets. He has a few CNC toys of his own…

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I did spend a fair amount of time admiring the supersized cnc, but some of those cabinet solutions are really slick, too. Not just hanging boxes with doors, but sliding gimmicks, stand mixer pivots, all sorts of stuff.

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Oh WOW. I would love to tear into something like that.

Thanks for the inspiration!

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