CNC Router Intro Project to Improve Your 3D Printer Cleaning Area

Hey y'all, this is a beginner project for the CNC router that can easily help improve your 3D printing area. One of my shop's printers is a Mojo, which requires a Stratasys Wave Wash cleaner that can create quite a mess (especially when it get's used by students).

I created this board using recycled ABS plastic from my school's cafeteria. It is inlaid to the foam counter top and backed with a single layer of cell-cast acrylic.

Measure your material and table area to determine how large you can maker your clean board.

• Lay out your material on your CNC milling table
• Secure your stock on table
• Set up your X and Y
• Upload your file
• Cut your part

Note: ABS cuts like butter.

This is an operation that could have been completed with the CNC router, but I decided to create the fillets manually with a router table. The reasons being is that I would need to use the manual router anyways to remove the tabs left behind from the CNC and so I could easily add my fillets on both sides of the material (if I had used the CNC router to get these results, then I would've needed to flip the material and relocate my X and Y position). Overall, I felt that using the router table to create fillets gave me more control over the out come as opposed to creating fillets with the CNC.

The counter top of my 3D print cleaning station is covered with a protective foam. In order to create a space for my cleaning platform I cut out a space for it in the table.

Underneath my cleaning platform I placed a piece of slick acrylic to catch any liquid that seep through the cracks.

In conclusion, I would say that this simple project has not only improved my CNC skills, but has also improved the appearance of overall cleanliness of the 3D printing area in my shop.

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