Solution For Too Much Dust While Processing MDF On CNC Wood Router

Have you encountered such situation? There are too much wood powder is sourrounding the air and cnc wood router while processing wood. It seriously affect the workshop air, environement, operator health, machine working performance. Then what is the solution for this?

Do not worry. OMNI offer you the solution for such problem on cnc wood router. OMNI offer dust collecting system or you may call it dust abstraction device. It is with one motor, 2 pcs of cloth bag, 1 piece of pipe, dust collector hood and support for hanging pipe on cnc wood router.

This device can collect the dust very well from processing material, working table, ensure the working peroformance, operator health, environment clean, and also machine life time. When you get cnc wood router from OMNI, do not forget to get such one.

Painting on Acrylic After Engraved by CNC Wood Router

Painting on Acrylic After Engraved by CNC Wood Router

The way of painting for back engraving on scotch acrylic.
It is easily to be back engraved for acrylic by cnc wood router. Then you may could use needle to inject the painting. It is easily to inject the painting to acrylic, the difficulty is to clean the painting out of engraving part. Usually you can use knife or gasoline to clean it, then make prima paint. 
If the acrylic will not use primer paint, then can not use knife to clean.

The way of panting for back engraving on colorful acrylic
Using back painting way, painting the primer paint to the backside, then use the self-adhensive label to stick, then engrave it. When the engraving job is completed by cnc wood router, paint the gold painting again. When the paint is dry, clean the self-adhensive label. This way could protect primer and gold paint very well.

CNC Wood Router Cut Acrylic Cashier Board and Breast Plate

Using cnc wood router cut acrylic for cashier board and breastplate is very easy and qucikly.

Firstly, you design the cashier board size and make tool path, choosing what cutter you use, then transfer the program file to the control system Usually the program file is with G code file.

Now you put the acrylic sheet on the working table, using clamps to fix it or using vacuum system to holding it down tightly. Then mount on the cutter. Move the cnc wood router spindle to the position you want to start processing. Now, cut starting.

It takes for a while, then partially finished product is coming.

Now take off the self-adhensive cover from acrylic, stick the gold paper with words on it. then done. The breast board is with double layer for acrylic.

Acrylic Label Producing Process by cnc wood router

For such acrylic label cutting and engraving by cnc wood router, usually there are two ways. One is cut and engrave the scotch acrylic firstly, then use needle to inject the paint to the part of acrylic. And the other way is using the colorful self-adhensive tape to the acrylic, then start engraving and cutting by cnc wood router. For details, see follwing:

Here we will not mention the step of preparing program file for cnc wood router, setting tool path in the program file etc. We prepare the acrylic board, put it on the cnc wood router table and fix it by clamps. Now, mount on the cnc wood router bits special for acrylic.

CNC Wood Router Cut Acrylic Process

Often, advertising shop need to produce label for customers with acrylic sheet by cnc wood router.

For thoese door label with signs or numbers, you may could make the paint on the surface of acrylic sheet with gold or red or other colors. Some customers may nee double color on the acrylic label, you can make the differnt paint on the afront and back side of cnc wood router. Such as gold and black color as the following photos.

Please notice that choose the special cutters for acrylic cutting for not sticking acrylic powder.

Wooden Sign Processed by CNC Wood Router

Here is the photo about the completed wooden sign made by cnc wood router.

First step, you engrave wood plate big words, and make and do fretwork on other plate by cnc wood router. when these stuff are ready, make enamel paint and acrylic paint on them, waiting for dry.

So the final wooden sign made by cnc wood router seems very good.

Versicolor Acrylic Mounted On Wall As Sign

Now many hotels, banks, companies, shopping mall etc use vericlolor acrylic as the sign. The versicolor acrylic feature is: On the way,  acrylic is blue or black or other colors, at night, when there is light on in the sign, then the acrylic is with white color when we see it.

Acrylic is cutted by cnc wood router to the shape as designed in the computer. You create the letters or words in the software in PC, then set the words size, set the cutting tool path, confirm which cutter you use. Then output to control system for operating cnc wood router to cut acrylic.

Acrylic Application Made By CNC Wood Router

You may engaged in acrylic business or you may reselling acrylic cnc wood router. Today, let us know what cnc wood router can do for acrylic application.

cnc wood router can cut and engrave acrylic for following industries: machinery spare parts, aviation, sign, architecture, chemical etc.

acrylic cutted and engraved by cnc wood router can be used for art and crafts, decorative light, furniture, exhibition counter and shelf, light box, photo frame, office supplies, kitchen ware, bath articles, aqurium, industrial goods, hotel articles, lab articles etc.

Acrylic stuff appears every cornor of people's life, cnc wood router plays a big part here.

Abnormal Noise Analysis& Solution On CNC Wood Router

When cnc wood router is running or processing, it will make some sound, well, this is normal one. Sometimes, cnc wood router make some abnormal noise, which may frastrated.

See following two parts mainly the abnormal noise from:

1. Spindle motor makes adnormal noise. Such noise delivery us the message that the bearing in the cnc wood router spindle may is with quality problem or bearing life time ends, or the bearing is badly weared.You need to replace a new one or fix it.

2. The noise when cnc wood router is running at three axis direction.

Such abnormal noise may caused by weared motor bearing, or lacking lubrication on some axis, too dirty or too tight on some axis, weared balls in ballscrew set, or losing balls etc.

When you know the mainly reasons caused the above cnc wood router abnormal noise problem, then you will fix it easily.

CNC Metal Router Engrave and Cut Metal

CNC Metal Router Engrave and Cut Metal

Before we process metal material, we should know its features. Usually, copper is more sticky and tough, and with less hardness. According to these features, when we use cnc wood router to engrave, we should notice the cutter choose.
We should ensure the sharpness of cnc wood router cutter. Its sharpness is related with front and back angle value, bigger angle, more sharp. the cutter with higher particle index, then more sharp. Then is the powder removing capability, more smooth of front cutter surface, more faverable for powder removing; bigger flute, then more faverable for powder removing.
Besides the above, it requires cnc wood router spindle with certain rotating speed. Adjust the spindle speed higher, then lower the cutting capability.

Bamboo Art&Craft Produced by China CNC Router

Bamboo Art&Craft Produced by China CNC Router
Bamboo art&craft are bamboo sculpture and decoration made by bamboo. Bamboo art&craft is with special design, fine workmanship, elegant color, free of deformed and bitten by insect. Bamboo art&craft is with good market selling, its process also has been improved.
The difference now is many companies adopt China cnc router or cnc wood router instead of making by hand. Artcraft works on fine, nice looking and with certain practicality. Now, the engraving imagine is engraved by china cnc router software for 2d or 3d work, or relief sculpture, or hollowed work. China cnc router can speed up bamboo art&craft progress and with fine precision, suitable for mass production.

CNC Wood Router Engrave Foam Styrofoam

Use cnc router or we call cnc router, cnc styrofoam router to cut out the shapes for your product and engrave labels onto the plastic. You may use cnc wood router to engrave styrofoam for mold.

You may use cnc wood router to engrave, drill, cut, bevelling etc on styrofoam, mainly used in industry of decoration for GRG, GRC processing, paraffin wax, mold production, cabinet, door, window etc industries. For mold indutry, suitable for mold of auto mobile, boat, airlines etc.

OMNI CNC foam router, cnc wood router is with superior precision, it can complete the large size foam work at high precision working performance, and with less time and almost no waste for foam. It can save labor cost very much.

Steeless Back Luminous Letters

Steeless Back Luminous Letters

Steeless Back Luminous Letters is used by steeless at front and side, acrylic board at back, and with LED light in acrylic. The progress is using cnc wood router to engrave and cut steeless and acrylic board, then using cnc grooving machine to groove. Outlook is very impressive, strong resistance to weather.
Material used: acrylic board, LED light, steeless 
Luminous Mode: Back Luminous
Suitable: mainly used for mall, building, hotel, restrant, bank, bar sign etc.

Use CNC Wood Router As a Printer

Why I say use cnc wood routr as a printer? Will it be so simple? The answer is yes.

Printing words or imagine steps are: firstly, we creat file, edit it. Then send the print command to printer.

Similar as cnc wood router or laser machine. We create program file in the PC, then edit program file, set the tool path, then transfer it to the format CNC wood router control system accept. Now you input the program file to control system, give the command, and the control system will operate machine as the program file order.

The difference is for printer, the media is paper, cloth, now the media is wood, stone, plastic, acrylic, PVC etc.

Acrylic Product Maintenance

With acrylic advanced features, acrylic ihas been used more and more widely. Well, acryclic i also with disadvantages, such as easily get scratched, this requires we should take good care of acrylic product.

Usually, acrylic product is with following advanced features:

1. Visual Effect: Multi-color, gorgeous, strong visual impact.

2. Weather-Resistance: Keep no fade for rather long time, even for 8-15 years.

3. Durability: Protect power supply within it, last power lifetime.

4. Reasonability: Reasonable design, rain and humidity-proof, easy to get maintenance because of its structure.

5. Attaching-Resistance: Its attaching-resistance capability is 200 times over glass.

6. Optical Transparency: could up 95%, save cost of power.

7. Burning-Resistance: no self buring.

How to handle maintance for acrylic?

1. Clean. Use clean water to clean and dry it with soft cloth.

2. Use polishing paste with soft cloth to make acrylic shinning.

3. If acrylic products are broken, use IPS glue etc to stick it.

4. Use poshing machine to polish it if surface is scratched or use laser engraving machine to engrave the surface again.

Logo Wall Progress Made by CNC Wood Router Laser Cutting Machine

Logo Wall Progress

Many companies prefer logo walls for showing the business idea, company culture etc.
So how to make logo walls by advertising companies? Here are mainly ways:
1. Use blockboard as keel, stick APP.
2. Use blockboard as keel,stick HPL.
3. Use blockboard as keel, stick steeless board.
4. Use blockboard as keel,stick aluminium board.
5. Use PVC or acrylic with painting as backboard.
6. Use glass as backboard.
7. Use some wood as backboard.

For 3d letters, fowllowing are some making ways:
1. cnc wood router or laser cutting machine cut acrylic or PVC, then polish, paint.
2. cnc wood router or laser cutting machine cut acrylic, stick double color board o.
3. Use copper board, steeless board, titannium board or aluminium within 3mm thickness to be cutted by cnc plasma cutting machine, cnc plasma cutter.
4. Use copper board, steeless board, titannium board or aluminium more than 3mm thickness to be cutted by cnc plasma cutting machine, cnc plasma cutter.
5. Combined steeless board or aluminium board with acrylic within LED power there. 
6. Or you can use acrylic, glass, wood etc to be cutted, engraved directly as logo wall.

Hamilton Scenic Use CNC Wood Router

Hamilton Scenic Specialty got its start in 2000, custom fabricating scenery and stage sets from wood and mixed materials, for Broadway-style theater, rock and roll road shows, and other segments of the entertainment industry.

Hamilton Scenic Specialty handles CAD detailing, planning, construction, finishing, installation, follow-up, and long-term support for its projects, while working on fabrication in aluminum, steel, solid woods, plywoods, laminates, plastics, and veneers with cnc wood router.

The majority of its work is creating theatrical stage scenery. Clients include Disney Theatrical for the set of its North American tour of Mary Poppins; the Blue Man Group in Orlando; and Holland America cruise ship entertainment sets.

But Hamilton Scenic Specialty has developed a new and growing niche: public art installations and museum theming throughout North America, all built and shipped from its Dundas, Ontario operation.

As stage shows have become more elabrote, sets have becoming increasingly complex, with many more parts, and styles that emphasize unusual angles and shapes. Furniture for the sets produced by cnc wood router is frequently custom designed and built, to match a particular perspective, work well with stage lighting and colors, etc.

NextFab Use CNC Wood Router

NextFab has been my prototyping studio for the bamboo Fluid Ribbon Chair. I needed a place to laminate bamboo tensile specimens, CNC wood router the specimens, and the form mold for the chair. Then had to laminate the bamboo, vacuum bag and press the chair into the mold, heat cure it, and cut/finish the shell into the Fluid Ribbon Chair shape. I also needed 6’x7’ vinyl banners for the booth at ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, this pas May). All of that was done at NextFab. It was one month of planning and logistics, then two long days of execution that produced the bamboo fluid ribbon chair the night before the show.

Everyone at NextFab was so supportive and excited about the project. Evan Malone was particularly accommodating when I had critical parts of the process and needed access to equipment at specific times.

Hamilton Scenic Use CNC Wood Router

Hamilton Scenic Specialty got its start in 2000, custom fabricating scenery and stage sets from wood and mixed materials, for Broadway-style theater, rock and roll road shows, and other segments of the entertainment industry, which made by cnc wood router.

Hamilton Scenic Specialty handles CAD detailing, planning, construction, finishing, installation, follow-up, and long-term support for its projects, while working on fabrication in aluminum, steel, solid woods, plywoods, laminates, plastics, and veneers.

The majority of its work is creating theatrical stage scenery. Clients include Disney Theatrical for the set of its North American tour of Mary Poppins; the Blue Man Group in Orlando; and Holland America cruise ship entertainment sets.

But Hamilton Scenic Specialty has developed a new and growing niche: public art installations and museum theming made by cnc wood router throughout North America, all built and shipped from its Dundas, Ontario operation.

As stage shows have become more elabrote, sets have becoming increasingly complex, with many more parts, and styles that emphasize unusual angles and shapes, and these job could be completed by cnc wood router. Furniture for the sets is frequently custom designed and built, to match a particular perspective, work well with stage lighting and colors, etc.

Antique Designer Use CNC Wood Router

With stores in Los Angles and Brooklyn, as well as its home base in Cleveland, Ohio, Jason Wein’s stark, minimalist designs are a favorite of Hollywood celebs. In High Point, the Cleveland Art space will feature lighting, shelves and tables built from industrial components and fasteners that Wein culls from defunct factories located throughout New England and America’s rust belt.

“Everything is American-made using recycled and repurposed materials, right down to the fasteners, because I think it’s the right thing to do,” Wein says. “A lot of the machines that we buy from New England are from the 1700s, before electricity, and have three or four lifetimes of workers behind them. Today, with CNC wood router and lasers, one man can operate 100 machines and the jobs have been outsourced overseas. It’s a different age and time, and we’ll never see this history again.”

Beth Lewis too is passionate about giving new life to old pieces, “taking something that someone has discarded as trash and turning it into something that someone else would love to have in their home, simply by visually displaying it in a way that’s pleasing,” she says.

A veteran merchant who opened her first retail shop at the tender age of 19, Lewis’ retail store in Marshville, N.C., about 35 miles East of Charlotte, is a mecca for fans of her blog and singular look, a combination of rustic farmhouse, old architectural pieces and industrial influences brought together by a neutral color palette. The Old Time Marketplace store is housed in a building built in 1910, which movie buffs will recognize as the setting for the general store in the Oscar-winning film, “The Color Purple.”

CNC Wood Router For Industrial Use

Woodworking Machinery for Industrial Use 

• Shapers
As their name suggests, shapers are woodworking machinery that bring shapes to timber. In conjunction with cutters, they are appropriate for manufacturing accents for Australian crown moldings or furniture.
• Chisel mortisers and chains
These woodworking machines are relevant when producing precise holes on pieces of wood. They have the ability to control the hole’s depth as per the desired measurement.
• CNC Wood Routers
CNC Wood Router are very important tools when seeking to make intricate circles, patterns or designs in timber. There are various kinds of routers that comprise mid range, hobby, specialty and multi-axis routers. CNC Routers are a step above, favoured with very high end industrial woodworkers. 

Most Australian industries rely on machinery in order to accomplish their tasks. There are various kinds of machinery for use in this regard. Examples include power machines, metalworking machinery, punching machines and shearing machines among others. Another important component of machinery includes woodworking machinery.
Woodworking machines trace their origins to 18th century England. They were important tools in the production of furniture. People also used them to make things such as, carts, wagons, axles, yokes and wheels. Currently, there are different categories of woodwork machinery for industrial use. Examples of woodworking machinery include:
• Jointers
Jointers are woodworking machines that flattens and straightens the edges of wood boards. Various industries also use it to smoothen bottom of the wood board. This allows the board to mover accurately through planers.
The structure of a jointer comprises an infeed table that is movable. Jointers also come embedded with outfeed tables and spinning heads. The latter contains knives.
• Table saws
Table saws consist of adjustable arbors with motors. They must also have a blade, fence and flat table for them to work properly. The functions of table saws majorly center on ripping and cross-cutting wood boards. In the former’s case, industries cut the wood boards along their grains. This is the opposite case in cross-cutting, which involves cutting across the board’s grain.

CNC Wood Router Application

CNC wood router can be used in wood and mold industries.

For wood industry, cnc router used in the funiture decoration, insutrument industry, wooden art wor, large size panel engraving, solid wood furniture processing, redwood furniture, solidwood rock art, photo frame engraving, MDF door, instrument relief sculpture, cabinet, window, door, nightstand, folding screen etc.

For mold industry, cnc wood router used for all kind of mold, such as wooden mold, airline wooden mold, propeller mold, automobile foam mold etc.

CNC wood router also can work for other mateiral, such as aluminium, PVC, ACP etc, just you need to get extra spare parts.

CNC Router Kinds

CNC Router, laser machine are all for sign industry.

CNC router is suitable for brestpiece, architecture mold, metal mold, acrylic letters, wood, stone etc.

CNC Router can be seperated as following kinds according to its application:

CNC wood router

Tomb stone cnc router

laser engraving machine

advertising cnc router

jade cnc router

stone cnc router

cylinder material processing cnc router

mold cnc router

mini cnc router

Solution for CNC Wood Router No Back To Mechanical Origin?

What can we do if cnc wood router does not go back to mechanical origin?

Solutions are 1. If value is changing on software screen, but the machine does not move, please confirm that A. if machine is power on, B. confirm if controlling wire connected well, C, confirm driving motor make alram, D. Check if 12V or 24V switch power supply is broken.

2.If value does not change on cnc wood router software screen, please A. confirm control board is capatible with control software, B. check if control board plug very well,C, Plug to anther slot to see.

The above solutions usually can solve the problem of cnc wood router does not go back to mechanical origin.

Solution for Uneven Stone Engraving By CNC Router

Solution for Uneven Stone Engraving By CNC Router
Many cnc router users encounter this problem when engrave stone by cnc router. For tomb stone or other stone plate, why some position just touched by cnc router cutter, well some positions on stone are deeper engraved by cnc rotuer? This is related with the cnc router finding a blancing point on stone.
Before dispatching cnc wood router, manufacturers of cnc router will make working table even by cnc router milling cutter,so this is not the problem of cnc router table. Well, tomb stone or other stone must not so even, so if we make tool setting at left point, which is the highest point. This will cause some other position may can not be engraved. If this point is the lowest one, then may other position wil be keeper.
For avoding this problem, we suggest setting processing origin xy and z seperately. Still set xy at left down point of material, well, make z at the center of material, in this way, the whole engraving depth may is similar. If there is a big difference for different position material thickness, OMNI suggest make cnc router tool path to upper down two parts or upper, middle and down three parts. Or you use cnc router to measure the four edge point of material, according to X axis value to see which position is high, and which position is lower, then make some stuff under the material to keep the whole material even at most.

No Back To Origin For Laser Cutting Machine

What we can do if x and y axis does not go back to origin for laser cutting machine with RUIDA control system?

Turn on machine, press" ESC" on DSP screen of laser cutting machine, then move X axis manually on DSP screen, and touch limit sensor by hand, now see if light on mainboard is on. 
If not on, then use multi-meter to test the wire from limit sensor to mainboard to see is limit sensor broken or wire problem.
The circle is related with limit sensor of laser cutting machine. Those four points are light, from down to up position, port 1 and 4 should be on if you touch limit sensor by hand.

If one of two lights does not turn on, then please click FILE on software screen, then click VENDOR SETTING, make screen record, and send the photo to us by email. Then OMNI engineer will solve this problem of laser cutting machine for you according to this.