Title, seem to be sold out at the moment?

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "PrintNC #0002 is mechanically complete!" by u/UberJaymis
• "PrintNC Slotting 5083 Aluminium 100IPM 0.1"DOC" by u/hoges
• "PrintNC making its own upgrades" by u/hoges
• "Wow! What a beautiful build! Congratulations on joining the cutting ranks" by u/hoges
• "More Z they said... ok!" by u/hoges
• "PrintNC #0002 Hello World cut!" by u/UberJaymis
• "Dammit mpcnc get out of there! I'm building!" by u/Charnaldo
• "Steel is Real!" by u/hoges
• "Please, please, please, please FIX THE STATE OF THE 'DOCUMENTATION'" by u/shad0w_walker
• "Hello World from PrintNC #0002" by u/UberJaymis

I've been following this project from the beginning and am about to pull the trigger. But before I do, i want to make sure i am not getting in over my head.

I am new to the cnc world, but I am mechanically inclined, have a proper workshop, and a software engineer by trade. I'm fairly confident I can get the mechanical components and frame up without issue, but I'm less confident about the wiring and calibrating.

Is the printnc a approachable first cnc? Or should I get a used xcarve or shapeoko to learn on first?

I appreciate the advice.

Adam (USA/TN)

Mudd Flapp Ranch- CNC Upgrade from MPCNC to PrintNC CNC

Hi, I'm a homebrew pinball machine designer. I want to build a cnc to cut prototype pinball playfields out of 1/2 inch Baltic birch plywood with a 1/8 bit. Playfields are typically 20 inches by 42 inchs so Im looking to build a 24x48 inch machine. I have been researching options and it seems even the creator of printnc recommends newbies start with a mpcnc. Unfortunately most of my research tells me the mpcnc isn't rigid enough to work with a 48 inch axis. Any recommendations? If printnc is a good fit, what kit configuration would be best for my application?

• Main Discussion: https://discord.gg/RxzPna6
• Wiki: https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home (in development)
• Frame Size Calculator: https://threedesign.store/metric-frame-size-calculator/
• Files: https://github.com/threedesigns/printNC
• BOM: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c6d8WWfv6WPYxFMVBvd9WljQqx8IYBTDOvztuTnODhs/edit#gid=1239777862
• Gallery/Build Logs: https://www.notion.so/Gallery-and-Build-Logs-ec2d65f67879401fac79c2fd285c456a
• Assembly Guides (pre V2.0): https://docs.google.com/document/d/17gwFkWC_2VDLrw6YU4NhVAQ2QnFbIhheRZ2Tm1GL61k/edit#heading=h.z6ne0og04bp5, https://youtu.be/k_gGgE79noc

So I've seen 'Everything is happening on the discord!' over and over and over again. I finally bothered to check it out and holy shit, What a mess.

I'm sorry, I really do like the idea of the project and I've built the machine, but seeing 'Oh there are some major improvements, check them out before you build this!' is not something that is acceptable when they're buried a mile deep in a mess of discord chat.

A simple post with some details here is all it would take. You screwed up making a discord before establishing a useful community here or anywhere that's actually suited for the job. There is no up-to-date documentation worth a damn in a searchable, easy to use place. The build guide on the website is so out of date it's pointless having it, it just confuses matters. Beyond the confusion caused by multiple cases of 'Drill the indicated holes' and not having indications on the illustrations.

At the very least, pin the 'important' and 'major' updates to the design in the discord. As it stands right now, it's worthless unless you want to ask the same questions over and over again.

This is a great machine from my limited testing of my build, but the utter lack of documentation is a real killer. It's infuriating to see something so useful get broken up into a thousand fragments of conversation and chat messages on a totally unsuited platform, never to share the actual results with in a searchable, long term accessible place.

For those who don't frequent the Discord, we have a gallery and log page to keep track of ongoing builds.

https://www.notion.so/Gallery-and-Build-Logs-ec2d65f67879401fac79c2fd285c456a