Rcfoamcutter hot wire cnc foam cutters will cut tapered shapes including a zagi like wing or a jet wing.
Cnc hot wire foam cutter diy.
The hot wire cnc foam cutter is a simple but very important machine tool especially for hobbyists.
A second plus is the realtime 3d preview of the cutting job.
If you can afford it then buying software may be the way to go but expect to pay up to 175 200 for mach3 4 60 devcnc foam and devwing foam 2 is 125.
It s possible to do without a cnc computer numerical control machine just by guiding a hot wire over templates.
The vortex rc 4 axis hot wire cnc is built using precision laser cut mdf interlocking parts and uses drawer slides threaded rods to keep the costs low.
The four stepper motors control the x y x y direction movements of the hot wire and thus enable you to cut different shapes out of the foam block.
In this video i will show you how to make a bow polystyrene cutter out of pvc pipe and a household ac power adapter this is a handy little foam slicer if you.
You ve built your 4 axes cnc foam cutter and now you need some software to generate and send the g code for your foam wing or fuselage.
As devcnc foam is written from scratch thinking to cnc 4 axes hot wire foam cutting machines the interface is very clean it includes only command referred to foam cutting so it s very easy to use and all the features are optimized for foam cutting.
It cuts the foam in different shapes by using an electrically heated wire as a cutting tool.
Assembly is simple and mostly takes up to two hours.