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CNC router projects are gaining more popularity in both machinery industry and personal hobby. Compared with traditional hand carving, CNC router project possesses such advantages as high production efficiency, high machining precision, high rate of finished products and labor saving.

Do you know what are CNC router projects or have your ever made your own CNC router projects? Do you have any excellent CNC project plans or CNC router ideas? Have you ever seen any amazing or profitable CNC router projects?

CNC Router Projects

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Just as the name implies, CNC router projects refer to the project or product processed and manufactured by a CNC router. There are may categories of CNC router, for example, CNC wood router, stone CNC router, hobby CNC router, EPS/foam CNC machine, laser cutting machine, CNC plasma cutting machine etc.

Enterprises or individuals can use different types of CNC machine to develop different CNC router projects. For instance, a large-sized CNC wood router can launch wood CNC projects, like wooden furniture, building plates, advertising signs; a small CNC router is capable of carving and cutting all kinds of 2D/3D signs, patterns, logos, letters, numbers on wood; and a laser cutting machine is able to engrave and cut various materials by means of laser. The products made by such profitable CNC projects are widely applied to all sectors.

Classification of CNC router projects

As mentioned in the above that different CNC routers are capable of developing corresponding CNC router projects. Except that, we can also classify the CNC router projects according to the processing materials used in respective project.

Wood CNC router projects

The primary materials used in the wood CNC router projects is wood, including but not limited to redwood, cedar, walnut, mahogany and maple. We believe that even though with single type of material, we can produce various products. Products manufactured in wood CNC router projects mainly include wooden furniture like doors, cabinets, sofa, tables and chairs, crafts, artworks, models, toys, decorations, musical instruments, etc.

The wood CNC router projects are carried out mainly by CNC wood routers, for example, the wooden furniture engraving machine, hobby CNC router and wood milling machine. You can also add certain advanced configurations to complete complex wood CNC projects, such as separate spindles, 4 axis, 5 axis, ATC etc. according to actual requirements.

Fiberboard CNC router projects

Fiberboard is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers. It may include particle board, low density fiberboard (LDF), medium density fiberboard (MDF) and high density fiberboard (HDF) in terms of density. The fiberboard has smooth surface, fine material, stable performance, firm edges and good decorative surface. So the fiberboard is widely used in many products, such as furniture, wood floor, indoor decoration, packaging etc.

The fiberboard CNC router projects adopt CNC router as the main machine. Using a CNC router to process fiberboard has many advantages, such as high precision, high output and less waste. Compared with solid wood board, fiberboard has a higher cost performance. Selecting fiberboard to develop your profitable CNC router projects are quite a good choice.

Metal CNC router projects

Metal CNC router projects are the projects dealing with metal materials, such as gold, steel, copper and aluminum. As metal materials have certain property of rigidity and ductility, metal products are extensively applied in many fields. Products of metal CNC projects include metal parts, mould, advertising signs, crafts, jewelry, toys, architecture structure etc.

Metal CNC router projects are accomplished by the metal CNC router, which can process metal materials with high precision and high production efficiency. The metal CNC router is suitable for carving, engraving, milling and drilling almost all sorts of metal materials. Metal CNC router projects involve in jewelry, automotive, mould, ironware and other industries.

Stone CNC router projects

The most commonly seen stone CNC projects in daily life include wall reliefs, stone sculptures and various household supplies, such as marble countertop. Other stone CNC projects also involve letter carving on the stone, jewelry machining and stone cutting and milling, etc. Traditional stone engraving work requires tremendous manpower, energy and raw materials and also takes a very long term to finish. However, the CNC engraving machine realizes the mechanized and automated production of stone carving products. This significantly improves the processing efficiency.

The materials processed in this project mainly include granite, marble, artificial stone, sandstone, crystal, jade and other kinds of stone materials. The common processing methods include embossing, lettering, cutting, hollowing out, seamless stitching, surface treatment, table milling and so on.

Quartz stone CNC router projects

What we usually call quartz stone is a type of new stone material. It is synthesized from over 90% quartz crystals with resins and other trace elements. The main products of this project include quartz stone countertop, background wall, and wash basin etc.

As one type of stone CNC router projects, the quartz stone CNC router projects adopt the stone CNC machining center as the major machine. It applies to the machining process of hollowing, engraving, chamfering and polishing of the quartz stone wash basin, tea tray and countertop. The machining center can reduce the tool-changing time and wastes, and increase the utilization rate of raw material. It can also be used in other quartz stone CNC router projects, such as mural, lettering, relief and hollowing.

Styrofoam CNC router projects

The Styrofoam CNC router projects take the Styrofoam as the raw material. The Styrofoam, also called expandable phlystyrene (EPS), has many features. For example, low relative density, low heat conductivity, small water-absorbing quality, impact vibration resistant, thermal insulation, etc. The Styrofoam CNC router project produces many products, such as shockproof packaging of fragile articles, thermal insulation materials and decorations.

The CNC machine adopted in the Styrofoam CNC router projects are the foam CNC router. And the foam CNC router usually has large machining dimension, so it also occupies large space. This kind of CNC router does a good job in carving or cutting of large scale workpieces in different materials, such as wood, aluminum, Styrofoam, but not for steel, iron, etc. If you have good CNC project plans about Styrofoam, don’t hesitate to contact us. We can help you choose a suitable CNC router to launch your profitable CNC router projects with Styrofoam.

Arcylic CNC router projects

Arcylic, also called polymethyl methacrylate or organic glass, is one of the most ideal engraving materials. The arcylic material has excellent machinability in spite of any processing methods, such as cutting, milling, engraving, caring, and drilling. Popular arcylic CNC projects include experimental appliance, mould, advertising ornaments and signs, artistic lamps, crafts, souvenirs etc.

 

At present, the acrylic CNC projects are mainly realized by laser machine or CNC router. The strong combination of CNC router with arcylic material will definitely create more and more excellent products.

Paper CNC router projects

Do you know even a paper invitation card can be processed by a CNC router?

Paper, especially corrugated paper, is one of the most common materials in our daily life. More than that, the paper tableware, paper stationery, paper packaging and paper artworks are also common products of paper CNC router project.

CNC engraving machine or CNC router for paper is the “master of art” that manufactures these products. When you have perfect CNC router ideas about your paper products, you can input them in the software. With help of the software, the CNC router can perfectly understand various complex graphics and be able to engrave the graphics on paper surface. During the cutting process, CNC Router will not generate any tool wear or mechanical deformation. So the loss rate of paper material is small but the yield is high, which maximizes the utilization of paper material.

Glass CNC router projects

Glass is one of the most commonly seen material in our daily life. Nowadays, an increasing number of glass manufacturing enterprises adopt CNC machines to develop their glass CNC router project. CNC machining can achieve high precision and high productivity, bringing more revenue to enterprises. The Glass CNC router project mainly involve cutting, punching, engraving and lettering of the glass material. And the glass products made by such project may include glass tableware, trophy, artworks, decorations, and construction products.

Glass CNC router project can be achieved by glass CNC engraving and cutting machine. Cutting glass with a CNC machine doesn’t need any spectacularly specialist equipment. All you need is a diamond burr, or glass drilling bit, high speed, low feed and some coolant. Large glass machining enterprises may add tool magazine or tool changing system to the CNC machine to develop their profitable CNC projects. This can realize mass production with high efficiency.

Rubber CNC router projects

Rubber material is widely used in industry production and commercial activities. The rubber CNC router project provides people with many essential daily and medical rubber products. In addition, this profitable CNC projects can also provide various rubber parts and components in various industries. For example, excavating, transportation, construction, machinery, electronics and other emerging industries.

CNC Router plays an important role in rubber CNC router project. If you have good rubber CNC project plans, the CNC router can help you to put them into practice. It can make rubber official seals and rubber sheets. What’s more, it can also process EVA artificial rubber sheets, rubber signs, coasters, slippers, sculptures and other handicrafts. CNC router can not only reduce the processing time, but also increase the productivity of rubber products.

Fabric CNC router projects

As a type of fast-moving customer goods, clothes and other fabric products have tremendous market demands. Therefore, more and more garment and textile manufacturers select CNC machine to launch their profitable CNC projects. These CNC machines can satisfy their large requirements on cutting, engraving and carving.

The fabric CNC projects mainly adopt the fabric CNC cutting machine or laser CNC cutter to finish the products. Traditional fabric processing technology has long production process and single patterns. Disadvantages of traditional fabric machine include high production cost and long production cycle. However, the laser CNC machine used in fabric projects fully solves the problem of inefficiency and waste of materials. Because the laser CNC machine has high efficiency, high precision and low waste rate.

CNC router projects of other materials

Apart from the above CNC router project, there are also many other projects adopting other materials, such as ceramics, gypsum, resin, etc. Selecting the right CNC machine for your project will make your work with less effort but more achievements. No matter what materials you choose to develop your profitable CNC projects, IGOLDEN CNC router can help.