<div dir="ltr">A dust cover is super cool.<div><br></div><div>One thing to think about is that milling and 3d printing are often different formats. 3d printing is a bit slow so it's popular to have small format machines. But lots of people use cnc cutters for larger format stuff. Also it looks a little light weight for cnc cutting... The usual tradeoff you're looking at with a cnc cutter is rigidity vs. size. At the same price level you compromise one or the other. Personally I went with a slightly less rigid machine to get a larger cutting format. Which worked out really well (as people know I'm in love with hardboard). My machine cuts aluminum too although i've not practiced much. I have a huge store of aluminum for when that comes forward. If I needed a more rigid machine, I'd likely buy a smaller format to keep price down. </div>
<div><br></div><div>And you have to wonder if carrying the cutter around is going to make the 3d printing slow.. </div><div><br></div><div>Everyone has different requirements but I wouldn't be surprised if there are people this could work for. And sometimes people buy something not knowing what their going to make. Then they just design for stuff that fits with whatever machines they have..</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's a smaller format cutter with lower rigidity. And a larger format 3d printer with slower speed (3d printer experts may want to correct me on that one).</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Mark Stephenson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.b.stephenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">mark.b.stephenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Nice machine. Seems expensive though, is $4500 a good price for something like this?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Barry Horne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:horne.barry@gmail.com" target="_blank">horne.barry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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