Hi Everything!
I am an industrial designer by trade and I'm looking for recommendations for a benchtop mini CNC mill to be used primarily for prototyping purposes. I'm mainly interested in cutting Aluminium, plastics, and very rarely SS. I mainly design consumer products not much larger than a mobile phone, so table travel doesn't need to be too large but the potential to cut slightly larger parts is always great.
Below is a list of a few of the brands and machines I have in mind but please feel free to offer any other suggestions!
The Tomach pcnc-440 for example would probably be the most expensive machine I would consider. It would also be great to be able to add a 4th-axis eventually but this isn't critical.
It also seems there are a ton of Chinese benchtop mini CNC mills on the market. Skyfire in particular looked like they have a few products that would fit the bill but I'm unsure as to which of these brands are reputable.
Really any advice or suggestions would be HUGELY beneficial and no bit of guidance will go unappreciated.
I am an industrial designer by trade and I'm looking for recommendations for a benchtop mini CNC mill to be used primarily for prototyping purposes. I'm mainly interested in cutting Aluminium, plastics, and very rarely SS. I mainly design consumer products not much larger than a mobile phone, so table travel doesn't need to be too large but the potential to cut slightly larger parts is always great.
Below is a list of a few of the brands and machines I have in mind but please feel free to offer any other suggestions!
- 4-axis CNC Machining Center | MicroKinetics
- CNC Express Milling Machine | MicroKinetics
- Benchtop Milling Machines and small CNC Mills - MDA Precision
- 2018CNC Micro Mill - TAIG Tools
- SKYFIRE CNC
- https://tormach.com/machines/mills/pcnc-440.html
The Tomach pcnc-440 for example would probably be the most expensive machine I would consider. It would also be great to be able to add a 4th-axis eventually but this isn't critical.
It also seems there are a ton of Chinese benchtop mini CNC mills on the market. Skyfire in particular looked like they have a few products that would fit the bill but I'm unsure as to which of these brands are reputable.
Really any advice or suggestions would be HUGELY beneficial and no bit of guidance will go unappreciated.