News - Carvey 3D carving machine launches on Kickstarter

[HEXUS]

Carve your product designs from woods, metals and plastics with $1999 desktop machine.

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[edzieba]

It's a small CNC mill. They can try and rebrand it as a '3D carving machine" to try and make it seem somehow new or innovative, but it's still just a small CNC mill.

[LSG501]

that's nothing new.... it's just a 2D cnc machine in a case. Now if it was a 3D version (which there are some including one with a 3d printer option) then it wouldn't be a bad deal but that just seems expensive to me.

[Pob255]

Ok Let's cut through the BULL**** right here and right now.

It's NOT a "3d carving" machine, that is a CNC mill.
I don't care how hip and trendy 3d printing is, stop giving bull**** names to things!
An apple is an apple you don't call it a "green tangerine" because oranges are cool at the moment.

Next the claim "woods, metals and plastics" anyone with experience in CNC knows that there's a big step and difference between wood and plastic and metal.
To start with what metal?, I'll bet this thing will struggle with any real thickness of copper or even aluminium. There's a good reason good cnc metal mills have all the mess of coolant fluid flowing over the bit, you need it when you work with metal.

Cost $2000 isn't that cheap for what it is, cheap basic cnc mill start at around £400 and go up, granted that doesn't include software and most use old control systems (old parallel or serial ports)
So it $2000 might not be that bad (note that that's only the initial limited price, it'll be $2400 after) but it might be overpriced made to look more than it is to people who don't know better by slick marketing.

[Brian224]

To be honest, it looks more like a small CNC router to me than a mill. It might be useful as an alternative to a laser cutter for education now pupils aren't allowed near real machine tools but for the same sort of money you can buy a 3 axis router that can also be configured as a 3D printer.

[NortyOne]

guys guys....this is clearly a Virtual Reality 3D world creating particle restructuring Atom shearing machine. Worth every penny if you ask me....

[Pob255]

*if* it can work metal and vary the depth of cut, then officially it's a mill not a router, although the terms are fairly interchangeable.

Most educational places in the uk use emco http://www.emco.co.uk/product/desktopicpseries or boxford http://www.boxford.co.uk/equipment/cad-cam-cnc/routers/ there's a third one as well but cannot remember who off hand.

students are still allowed access to machine tools, it's just that education has moved away from it, it's all focused on designing things for other to manufacture.