1. It all started with a proper design, in my case a few sketches to get a good feeling for the dimensions and shape. Quickly after the sketching p...

2. The frame provides the machine a rigid basis, not only to place it in your workshop but also for working on. To the frame the gantry will be mou...

3. The gantry is the bridge between the x-axis guiderails and supports your milling motor above the workpiece. The higher you make it, the thicker...

4. The last movement is what I call the Stepermotorhousing for the z-axis (plus the z-axis itself of course). It is constructed out of a frontplate...

5. Since your endmills need to move in 3 directions, the machine guides them with its guide rails. The guide rails provides the machine its rigidit...

6. The spindles translate the rotational movement from the stepper motors into a linear movement. When building your machine, you can choose betwee...

7. The work surface is the place you will clamp your pieces of material on. On a lot of professional machine a T-slotted bed is used, giving you th...

8. The main components in the electrical system are:-Stepper motors-Stepper drivers-Powersupply (or 2)-Breakoutboard-Computer-And last but not leas...

9. Since we want to remove material from the piece we clamp to the work surface, we need something that drives the cutting bits; i.e. the endmills....

10. In the topic CNC software I'll discuss not only the program me that controls the machine, but also the software which produces code the machine...