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DIY CNC Engraving Machine

By sandeep on August 15, 2020
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Hello friends in this post I’ll show how I made my own mini DIY CNC engraving cum
Milling machine using Arduino and GRBL CNC shield.

The frame of machine is made up of 12mm plywood which is very strong and easy to
work with.
I have used 500W spindle for this mini cnc engraving machine which have enough
power to work done.
working area of this machine is 120 x 120 x 30 mm.
I have tested this machine on Acrylic sheet, PCB, Wood and works ne.
I have not tested with aluminium yet, but yes for shaloow engraving with high quality
end mill surely we achieve good result on aluminium as well.

So let see further in this post how to build this mini powerful diy cnc engraving machine.

Video
please watch the video complete I have display all construction details in the video
 DIY Mini CNC Engraving Mac…
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Material Required
1. Arduino UNO 1nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

2. GRBL CNC Shield 1nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

3. A4988 driver 4nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

4. Nema 17 stepper motor 3nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

5. 5mm to 8mm coupling 3nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

6. 8mm SS smooth Rod 240mm 4nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

7. 8mm SS smooth Rod 130mm 2nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

8. T8 Lead screw 240mm 2nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

9. T8 Lead screw 130mm 1nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

10. Lead screw nut T8 3nos.

11. Flange bearing 8mm 3nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

12. shaft holder SHF8 8mm 12nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

13. 8mm Linear bearing SC8UU 8nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

14. 8mm Linear bearing SCL8UU 2nos Aliexpress

15. 12mm Plywood 15Sqft

16. M4 & M5 nut bolts

17. 165 x 120 6mm Acrylic sheet 1nos.

18. 500W spindle complete set 1nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

19. 24V DC 8Amps SMPS 1nos. Amazon.com / Amazon.in

20.

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Frame Construction
 CNC machine dimension details

Download the CNC machine dimensions CAD le from below

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All the dimension related to machine is mention in cad le its scaled to ratio 1:1 you can
directly print is and cut past on plywood for easy cutting of parts.
Here I am cutting a 12mm plywood using jigsaw machine to make the frame of CNC
machine.
I am using wood because it is enough strong for this purpose also it is light weight and
easy to cut and making holes.

Drilling holes in plywood

I have marked the holes location on plywood and making hole using a vertical drill
machine I have use 25mm drill bit to make hole for stepper motor.
 Ready frame of cnc engraving machine

After cutting and drilling holes on 12mm plywood I clamp it on right angle clamps to
make drill screw on the edges. in this way our basic frame is ready.

Drilling hole for screw on cnc machine frame

Here I use 240mm of 8mm smooth rod and 8mm 240mm Lead screw details
Linear bearing and shaft holder quantity is avail at material required section.

Z axis of CNC engraving machine

Here I installed the Z axis also

 500W spindle motor

This 500W spindle motor this is very silent in operation and powerful at same time, this
spindle kit came with all necessary components like 52mm spindle clamp ER11 Collet
and wide range of collet chuck 1mm to 6mm power supply etc.

Wiring details of CNC engraving machine

Wiring drawing of diy cnc engraving machine

GRBL Firmware
In this Machine I used GRBL rmware
3D CAD CAM Software
I have used Fusion 360 for 3D design and tool path generation

Watch this video to know how to generate Tool path and G-code for this CNC machine
in fusion 360

How to generate 3D Tool pat…

pat…
G Code sender
I have used GRBL Controller software to send gcode to machine

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 12 COMMENTS

Eugene Shin

Hi

I want to build this machine but I want to cut aluminum. So I want to make it
stronger. I watched the YouTube video and I swear there were moments when I
think your machine was shaking. Frankly, isn’t your spinner motor too powerful
for such a small wooden frame and this might be causing some imbalance.

I just want to spend some more money to make it more powerful. Could you tell
me which of these ideas might be most effective?

1) Scaling up (x2) the size of the frame to make it more stable.

2) Use aluminum for the body
3) Use more expensive components like linear blocks

 AUGUST 30, 2020

sandeep

If I want to upgrade it for more stability I will go with 12MM alu. frame and
16mm fully supported rail for X & Y axis and 10mm supported rail for z axis.

 AUGUST 31, 2020

Eugene Shin

I am sorry but I am a novice. What do you mean by “fully supported rail”?

 AUGUST 31, 2020

sandeep
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this

 AUGUST 31, 2020

CaptainMac

Hi ! Thanks for sharing your project ! I plan use it with an 800w VFD spindle. The
NEMA17 is enought for mooving my spindle with 8mm axis for machining
aluminum
?
Other question what is the weight of your spindle ?
Thanks a lot

 AUGUST 21, 2020

sandeep

I would suggest you go for go for NEMA23 > 10kg-cm and also choose
ballscrew instead of lead screw and fully supported rails for all axis

 AUGUST 21, 2020

Francisco

Disponibiliza o código do arduino por favor.

 AUGUST 18, 2020

Ivan

What is the approximate cost of all project mill?

  AUGUST 19, 2020

sandeep

400$

 AUGUST 21, 2020

Shri Hari Ram G

Do you guys planned on selling kits for this mini cnc engraver?

 AUGUST 16, 2020

sandeep

please contact at electricdiylab.com

 AUGUST 16, 2020

Amit Vyavahare

Where is the codding of ardunio uno.. For this project if you got please email me
at kishor.vyavahare61@gmail.com and mention your Whatsapp No… For to..
Make a help
I want to make for science annual project
I’ll subscribe you and will like your all videos with Beautiful comments

 AUGUST 16, 2020

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