I wondered why he got printed temporary struts. I can’t tell from your picture that those are printed. I thought they were regular painted mdf struts. 
umm, does someone live there?
Nope! It’s a playhouse but it’s far up on a hill, we collected old appliances off of OfferUp and stuff so you can see the microwave and mini fridge. We haven’t had time to hang out up there in a while so I figured i’d turn it into my shop
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Just use the end 4 as temporary strut plates, like the instructions show. It works 90% as good. Then cut the real ones.
Real cut strut plates should be more rigid and more straight and true.
Have a look at some other tables. Topics tagged parametric-table maybe they will confirm or alter your plans.
I think a lot of the replies here are getting pretty deep into the weeds before your first cuts. You saw from our RMRRF table it can be set up super easy and is dead accurate. You can remake tables, strut plates, end mills can be changed parts reprinted, all of it is very easy to do. Heck most of us ran the mpcnc for 8+ years with no vac attached at all. I highly suggest slapping it on a sheet of wood like we had it, or even just on the floor and getting it dirty. You can take it off the wood and stand the wood up out of the way super easy. From there you can make anything!
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Sounds good, I figure I’ll discuss this stuff first while I wait for the bits to arrive, I bought cheap ones to start with so I could break em but didn’t realize they don’t get here for another two weeks 
Good strategy but don’t stray to far from the instructions until you have made some cuts.
I sent you a couple. The issue I have with that is some of the cheap ones are great. Some of them are complete trash. You have never ran a CNC before so you won’t know the difference. It is always best to start with known good parts and only stray when you know what the difference is. I would hate for you to get a pack of cheap drill bits (I was sent 100 of those before), and think the CNC is bad or you don’t know what you are doing. With my endmills they are known good. After that if you want to try others that is perfectly fine.
Same idea with printed strut plates your printer might be horribly out of calibration and you can make your beam bow, the CNC after a quick calibration will cut a very accurate straight part. Known good.
There is a lot to learn in CNC it would be a bummer to have one wonky part throw off the whole experience.
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Awesome, thank you so much! I can’t wait to get cutting, it’s driving me crazy having such a cool machine sitting idle. I’m hoping to get it assembled this weekend when my dad can take me to Home Depot to grab the metal tubing. 
Put a pen on it and learn the CAD/cam chain!!!
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Checking in @CiviliZayden - how’s your build going?
I haven’t been able to really start on the cnc build yet, here’s why. The way I got out to RMRRF is through hack club, and I have to get the 3d printer I designed to print a benchy in order for it to be considered “complete” so I can get reimbursed for the plane ticket. Therefore, my parents won’t let me start a new project (cnc) until the printer is wrapped up. I’m getting close and hoping I can get started on the cnc this upcoming weekend. In case anyone is wondering, here’s what the printer looks like. Working on getting the toolhead board to talk to the pi and then I should be good
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