Desktop CNC milling machines for wood or metal have gained popularity, as their use can significantly increase productivity, as well as improve the quality and accuracy of processing.
Modifications designed for working with metal parts and elements are used in educational institutions, and they are also equipped with small enterprises and industries. In addition, they are indispensable in car service centers.
In recent years, desktop CNC milling machines for wood or metal are increasingly being used in home workshops. This is due to a significant reduction in the cost of electronic components and motors, as well as an expansion in the range of cheap CNC systems. Such changes have a positive effect on the cost of the units, making their price affordable even for private craftsmen.
Compact desktop devices with CNC are advisable to use for:
Modern units are optimally suited for working with parts and elements made of non-ferrous and ferrous metals, as well as their alloys. Moreover, many modifications of desktop CNC milling machines for wood or metal can be used when working with plastic workpieces. Thus, they find application not only in serial or small-scale production, but also in individual production.
Small-sized devices are equipped with drives, which are controlled using controllers. They, in turn, connect to any PC-compatible software. Evaluate the advantages of using such units:
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Benchtop CNC milling machines are a worthy alternative to their large factory counterparts. In terms of functionality and precision of processing of products, they are not inferior, and due to their smaller weight and dimensions they can be used not only in any small-scale production, but even at home.
It is actually a smaller copy. The desktop unit is designed to perform the same types of operations in the manufacture of products of complex shapes: milling, drilling, boring, countersinking, and so on. And the principle of its operation is the same, but unlike large machines, it can only process workpieces of much smaller sizes. But desktop CNC milling equipment can be used as an engraving machine. Large industrial units cannot cope with such work.
Dimensions of desktop CNC milling equipment are no more than 910x880x880 mm. But for some models the table length can exceed 1 m (usually 1135 or 1150 mm). The weight of the machines ranges from several tens to 200 kg. They are powered from a 220 V network. The maximum height of the workpiece (working area) of desktop CNC machines varies from 40 to 200 mm, and the spindle power is in the range of 0.7–1.5 kW.
There are two types of such machines. Console ones have a general appearance, design and operating principle similar to those available.
For portal ones, the spindle is mounted on a transverse beam between two vertical posts, which can be stationary or move along the Y axis. Accordingly, the work table, together with the workpiece fixed on it, either moves along the Y axis or is stationary. The spindle moves not only vertically (Z axis), but also along the X axis - along the beam between the posts.
Spindle of Gantry Table CNC Machine
The equipment is controlled from a personal computer connected via a USB port with the Windows operating system using special software and/or using the machine’s DSP controller (depending on the configuration of the CNC unit). The program can be loaded from external memory media, and the computer is disconnected while the machine is running (also depends on its model). Using the software, you can control workpiece processing manually via DSP or create a program that fully automates all operations.
All machines allow 2D and 3D processing, and some equipment even 4D and 5D. Types of processed materials: from plastic and wood to non-ferrous metals, stone and steel. These capabilities of the machine depend on its purpose and model. Many units are equipped, and others can be optionally equipped with a chip ejector, a spindle cooling system, a rotary device used during the processing of conical products, and other auxiliary components.
In the description of machines you may find the abbreviation CNC - this is the English designation for CNC equipment.
The machines are used in dental laboratories, as well as research and educational institutes, high-precision production of any workshops, including jewelry. They are used for milling, drilling, polishing, grinding, and engraving work at home in the manufacture of small products. The machines produce or process parts of furniture, interior design, advertising media, and so on; stamps, seals, souvenirs and jewelry, radio circuit boards, etc.
Desktop CNC milling equipment is used not only by individuals who love and know how to do something with the help of machines, small workshops and workshops, small industries, but even in large enterprises. On the latter, they mainly prefer to install units designed for metal processing. Such a wide range of applications of desktop CNC milling equipment is due to its main advantages:
For large enterprises, the point of using desktop equipment is that for the manufacture of small parts it is not necessary to use large, and therefore more energy-consuming, machines. In addition, they are not worth it without work, and buying additional ones is very expensive. In addition, not every large machine can handle the fine milling work that a desktop unit is designed for.
Benchtop unit for fine milling
The peculiarity of operating CNC equipment is that you do not have to be a qualified milling machine operator to operate it. The operator operating such a machine only needs to properly secure the workpiece, and then load and run a program in which the unit will perform all the necessary operations without human intervention. It would seem that everything is very simple. It’s just that writing a program for CNC milling equipment requires special qualifications. We need a specialist who knows how to use the CAD/CAM system for such a machine. It includes:
That is, an untrained person who bought a desktop CNC milling or milling-engraving unit will have to learn how to use it and the necessary software, with which they will need to:
In addition to solving these problems, when operating CNC equipment, it is also necessary to monitor the correctness of its operation.
Externally, CNC milling and engraving desktop equipment may not differ at all from simply milling equipment. It depends on the models and designs of machines of both types. And the scope of application of milling and engraving units is the same as described for milling units above. And the latter, as noted earlier, can also be used for engraving work. What is their difference?
Milling machines are more focused on performing this particular type of work, and with an engraving attachment they are more geared towards engraving.
Tabletop CNC milling and engraving equipment
Milling equipment can process steel, but engraving equipment cannot, only non-ferrous metals and not very hard materials. But it can be used to perform any delicate, literally jewelry work. You can’t do this with milling equipment. Only on an engraving machine can you always obtain a product that is functionally complete in all respects and does not require additional processing or finishing. In milling, this depends on the level of processing accuracy required and feasible on the equipment.
In order for the engraving unit to perform its high-precision work quickly, safely and without defects, its technical equipment must include a product height sensor. It not only speeds up processing, but also prevents damage to the engraver or micro-mill. In addition, the engraving machine can be equipped with sensors: curvature (tilt) of the product, measuring the length and reach of the tool. They additionally ensure precision machining and cutting depth.
All desktop CNC machines have a limitation on the maximum dimensions of the workpieces processed. It is structurally incorporated into the device of the milling equipment and is determined by the dimensions of the processing area along the X and Y axes, as well as the height and stroke of the spindle along Z. But this limitation does not apply to the German desktop units BZT of the PF series.
German tabletop unit BZT PF series
These CNC machines can process workpieces with dimensions exceeding the values of the spindle movement parameters along the X, Y and Z axes. To do this, it is enough to remove the work table of the BZT-PF metal equipment, on which the milled product should be mounted. This mode of operation in these machines is provided structurally and programmatically. After this, you can process the workpieces:
Another additional feature, which is not provided on all desktop CNC milling units, is monitoring possible failures and correcting the operation of the machine when they occur directly during the processing of the product, which allows you to prevent defects and significantly increase productivity. This function is performed by special servo controllers. Currently, only some high-precision machines with stepper motors, usually milling and engraving machines, are equipped with them.
Another advantage of desktop CNC milling equipment is the ability to purchase the machine as a construction kit. Such a unit will cost much less than a ready-made one. In addition, when you purchase a construction kit, you will be able to select the required configuration. That is, you will only need to pay for those milling equipment options that you will use. And if you need to expand the capabilities of the machine, this can be easily done at any time by purchasing the necessary modules and parts.
Kits for assembling desktop CNC milling equipment are deservedly in fairly high demand. And the point here is not mainly the lower price compared to ready-made machines. It is important that in this case, a self-assembled unit, as a rule (depending on the model of the construction kit and its manufacturer), is not inferior in terms of its properties and quality of product processing to similar ready-made factory equipment. It is covered by the same warranty period for maintenance and technical support throughout its lifetime.
It usually takes about 3-4 hours to assemble a benchtop CNC router yourself. The attached instructions with photographs and detailed explanations eliminate the possibility of getting confused when constructing or setting up the machine, or getting confused in its incomprehensible elements or complex diagrams.
CNC milling machines are convenient, practical and compact equipment. It has a low cost and at the same time is distinguished by functionality and versatility. This is what explains such a high demand for equipment in medium and small businesses. CNC woodworking machines are great for making small parts and also allow for mass production. Engraving and milling machines can also apply any text or image on top of products.
Depending on the size, CNC milling machines are divided into two types:
The presented machines can be purchased for making products from wood, metal and other materials, applying engravings and pictures on workpieces. In this case, the image and text are applied in 2D and 3D format. The acquisition of such a machine will significantly expand the range of products, as well as significantly increase labor productivity. In addition, purchasing CNC routers is an opportunity to open a new direction in business.
Key advantages of CNC milling machines presented on the website:
At the same time, all YUSTO clients can order maintenance of CNC milling machines. You can check the technical characteristics of the models by calling our managers.
Mini milling machines, which are equipped with program control (CNC), are widely popular among manufacturers involved in the manufacture of certain components for various mechanisms and certain components installed on vehicles.
Even in the recent past, on small-sized machines, all processing of metal parts was done manually. A little later, machines appeared, where most of the operations were already performed automatically. But nowadays, mini-machines equipped with program control have become increasingly common and automatically perform almost all metal processing work.
The workpiece is rigidly fixed on the deck of the machine's work table, then a certain program is entered, after which the machine performs almost all milling operations, maintaining all the specified parameters for processing parts.
The most popular of them are console machines. The convenience of using such a machine lies in the location of the workpiece being processed, which is rigidly fixed on the console, and all operations to move it along the cutter are performed by the console. In this case, the spindle with the attached cutter remains motionless.
On machines that do not have a console, the workpiece is attached to a work table, which can move both along the machine and across it. In this case, the cutter is also in motion along the horizontal or vertical axis.
Certain information is pre-entered into the machine’s memory, according to which the program control carries out almost all technological processes for milling workpieces. To carry out certain metal milling operations, especially for such small-sized machines, several software programs have been developed.
Intended for a group of machines performing drilling and boring operations. In this case, only certain coordinate points that must be processed are entered into the machine’s program memory.
Used for milling and grinding machines. Information about the trajectory of the cutter when processing a part is stored in memory.
This software is used in multi-tasking machines, which are of the turning-milling type. This software combines the programs of the two previous types of software.
This software is a rather complex program control, as it can perform almost all the processing functions of metal parts that are inherent in small-sized milling machines. This CNC program is used to control machines that belong to the wide-format type.
If you compare automated drilling and milling installations and small-sized milling machines with program control, it will immediately become clear that the latter have a number of positive advantages:
Such machines provide high precision when processing parts with a rather complex geometric shape. At the same time, the processing process occurs quite quickly and efficiently.
The process of operation of a machine equipped with a CNC is monitored by only one operator, who launches the computer program. That is, it is possible to operate several machines simultaneously, under the control of one person.
If at one time equipment equipped with CNC was used only for industrial purposes, now it is actively used in the processing of metal parts and workpieces from other materials in private workshops.
It is quite possible to make a desktop milling machine with PU on your own directly in a garage. There are quite a few such home craftsmen, and a CNC milling machine is quite expensive compared to conventional equipment.
Mini-milling machines equipped with a CNC system can be sorted as follows:
Mini-milling machines can be successfully used not only for processing metal workpieces, but also wood, stone, plastic and ceramics.
Tabletop CNC machines
Tabletop CNC machines of the BIGSTOL series are the most budget line of machines from the SteepLine company. These are inexpensive desktop CNC machines, but at the same time superior to most competitors in this price category: build quality, frame power, quality components, and performance.
This series of machines is most often in demand among various institutions, for home use, hobbies and small businesses.
Desktop CNC machines of the BIGSTOL series are new in 2018 - the CNC business has become even more accessible! We decided to design and introduce a new line of desktop CNC machines for small businesses. Our task was to present to the market machines with the same functionality as large portal machines, even something better, but at the lowest possible price! - And we succeeded.
Anyone can choose desktop CNC machines of economy class; in this section you will find machines for wood carving, for facades, for cutting, for furniture, for the home. If you haven’t found the machine you need, call us or write to us, we will assemble a machine for any task, this is how we have conquered the market.
The desktop CNC machine from Steepleline BIGSTOL series is successfully used in a variety of enterprises, from large manufacturers to individual entrepreneurs who produce souvenirs, icons, chess and other unique products. Using SteepLine numerically controlled desktop milling machines, you can create almost any complex product in wood or plastic.
BIGSTOL series machines are often used
CNC machines for wood carving: we offer desktop CNC machines for artistic wood carving for sale to domestic consumers: 3D processing, 2D processing, icons, paintings, and much more.
CNC machines for the production of facades: modern machines for the production of facades make it possible to mass produce facade parts from various materials (wood, MDF and others) of any degree of complexity with almost zero defect rate. Using desktop CNC machines "Steepline", designed for high-precision milling and engraving of facade parts on a plane, it is possible to produce things of unique beauty by applying complex artistic carvings, etc. to the surface of facades.
CNC machines for cutting sheet materials: The Steeline company produces CNC machines for cutting chipboard, MDF, etc. Very high-quality woodworking equipment is used for cutting solid wood and panel materials. The technological operation is performed with high productivity and the necessary accuracy.
CNC machines for furniture production: these are reliable and functional equipment that is suitable for starting a new business in the field of furniture production. Machines for making furniture can be used when performing highly complex work. Furniture is decorated with decorative elements that are difficult to reproduce by hand, especially in mass production.
Who are we?
Our company produces CNC machines for processing workpieces made of wood, metal, plastic and stone. Today, our portfolio includes more than a dozen models that are successfully used at enterprises in the following industries:
furniture (cutting standard sheets, manufacturing decorative elements);
engraving of products for protection against counterfeiting, marking and other purposes);
electrical engineering (production of printed circuit boards of varying degrees of complexity);
production of metal doors (production of all kinds of decorative elements and linings).
Why choose SteepLine table saws?
Today, the Russian market offers a wide selection of such equipment. If you choose our products, you get the following advantages:
Affordable prices.
The equipment is produced at the Kamensky plant in Russia, which ensures an affordable price compared to similar European-made equipment due to the absence of customs duties.
High quality.
In the production of desktop CNC milling machines, only high-quality components from leading manufacturers in the world (bearings, guides) are used, which ensures high processing accuracy and rigidity of the entire structure. The production takes place at the Kamensky plant, which has been designing and manufacturing all kinds of equipment for many years, having a modern technological base and qualified personnel.
Easy to use.
Tabletop CNC milling machines from Steepleline BIGSTOL series are easily integrated with software such as DSP0501, which allows you to automate the operation of the equipment, increasing processing speed without loss of accuracy.
Full range of service
By choosing SteepLine desktop CNC milling machines, you receive the full range of necessary service during the warranty period and after its completion. The company's warehouse always has a sufficient list of components and spare parts for quick shipment to any Russian region. We are also ready to offer periodic maintenance services for your equipment, which will extend its service life.
Individual approach to each client.
We appreciate everyone who decides to buy a desktop CNC machine from us. We are ready to provide all the necessary advice for an informed choice of equipment, based on your specific goals and objectives. Additionally, we are engaged in the production of components for desktop CNC machines, which will allow you to modernize your equipment and extend its service life. Our company is ready to send equipment to any region of Russia and other countries, providing detailed advice on commissioning or carrying out commissioning work on our own.
How to buy a desktop CNC machine?
If you would like to receive additional information regarding the equipment produced by SteepLine, or a commercial offer that takes into account the characteristics of your organization, please contact us by toll-free number 8-800-707-95-92 or leave a request on the website. We will be happy to contribute to your success and improve the quality of our products.
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