WHEN WILL CNC HAVE ITS “DESKTOP 3D PRINTER” MOMENT?

Chris Anderson, 3DR@chr1sa

WHAT’S HARD ABOUT CNC• Wide range of material size

and properties

• Wide range of tools and capabilities

• Mechanical limits in toolpath planning

• Combinatorial complexity overwhelming for software. Requires Harold!

HOW TO MAKE CNC EASIER• Limit materials to subset of

known properties and sizes

• Limit tools to subset of known properties and sizes

• Limit complexity to “2.75D” (better than 2.5D but not quite 3D)

• Close the loop!

FIRST EFFORTS

CURRENT EFFORTS

New: One app

Old: CAD + CAM + Control

Software

SOFTWARE

New: One App