CNC Tutorial - Foam Drawer Organizers using Photoshop, Illustrator and Fusion360
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2024
- In this tutorial style video Dan shows how to make custom drawer organizers using kaizen foam, Fusion 360, and a CNC machine.
Items used in this video:
- Patern Marker: amzn.to/3jmqiMN
- FastCap Foam, 4’x2’ Sheet, 57mm Thick (Size used in video): amzn.to/3kyu6Kb
- FastCap Foam, 4’x2’ Sheet, 30mm Thick (Half as thick as used in video): amzn.to/3ypKWQr
- CNC Machine: technocnc.com/...
- Cutting Tool: Amana Tool 46566-K: www.amanatool....
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This was an awesome tutorial to solving this sort of problem. Beginning to end awesomeness
Thank you!
This is for a computer guy not the average tool guy for sure. Like the end product but sure lots of steps getting there…
I love that there are people like you in the world who are focused and dedicated to organization. It says a lot about you! I'm very much like that in spirit, alas... I don't have the bandwidth to pull this off :) Will have to find some simpler route! Thanks for making this video and best of luck to you
Thank you!
Thank you for this video. I had watched a half-dozen different videos on foam cutting, but no one provided the detail about the toolpath except you. I was able to apply what you showed here to machine out some cheap polyethylene foam for a holder for my bench dogs. I'm waiting on some better Kaizen foam to arrive, so I can re-run the job on that.
Thank you!
For the construction of this piece, it seems that it would be easier to just completely cut out the outline, then glue another piece of flat foam to the bottom. Much faster! And you get an exactly smooth bottom. 😆
Not a bad idea at all, I have seen some shops do this and it work well too. We sometime water jet cut and do this too. This method has some advantages too, like an ability to do slops if you model it, or multi levels.
Very nicely done. I learned a lot, but mostly in the F360 manufacturing section. Cheers, JAYTEE
Thank you!
You can save a whole lot of time, effort and the need for a CNC router by marking your tool outlines directly onto a layer of painters tape over the top of your foam. Seeing as you're going to the trouble of tracing every single tool outline anyway. Once you have your outline, take an X-acto knife or better still a surgical scalpel, and cut the silhouette of the tool out, so you're left with a dark shape vs. light tape colour for contrast. Then just take a trim router with a compression bit chucked and carve out the inside of each tool outline. If you're making multiple cuts of the same profile, sure it's worth the time to digitize the outline into a toolpath, otherwise there's really not much need.
Yes, this works well - I did this in another video. This was mainly for the CNC part, it's a good entry in to CNC project, at least IMO.
Cool tutorial. Only missed the part where I could see that the tools actually fit.
They probably don't fit. It might need some fine tuning, cutting parts just slightly larger, which could be done with a hand router.
Thanks for the tutorial. I really wanted to see the end result, with the Ryobi tools applied to the foam, but I can't complain, you shared lots of information.
me too
That. That was beautiful
Thank you!
Great video, the cutouts looked like aliens carrying cases.
Thanks 🤣👽
This is my favorite video. Keep going!
Thank you!
Thanks so much for this. I'm going to use your process to make foam cutouts for my microphones!
You're welcome!
Oh goodness, I wish I saw this yesterday… I was measuring with a ruler and trying to make my model from that (I got about 70%)… your method is MUCH better… I’m going to try your way…
Thank you! Glad it’s helpful!
How deep are your passes on the foam and what was your speed
wow! excellent!!
Awesome video. Thanks!
Thank you!
Great video, I have a question which is the blade you used on your saw to cut the foam? I am trying to locate the type of blade to cut it. Thanks.
The blade on the table saw in a general purpose wood blade, the biggest need for cutting foam is the sharpness of the blade. If your having difficulty, try a brand new blade, maybe one with carbide tips, and use it only for foam so it stays very sharp. You can probably find one at Home Depot or Lowes
What if you just used an image of the tools, created an outline in PS, trace to vector in ILLUSTRATOR. Or, you could have just taken pics of the tracings. Seems that you’d save some work and get a cleaner outline. Digitizing a hand drawn tracing when digital images exist seems like extra time and work. Makes sense for something more bespoke, though. Obviously a very minor part of what you did. Great tutorial. Mad skills.
Kaizen foam? It’s preferred over Eva?
Wouldn’t it be easier to get a distinctive color background, (think green screen) lay tool on background, take picture from above, and use photoshop to remove the tool from the background, maybe add a ruler next to it to ensure you have scale?
This does work… but you can get some substantial errors on larger and taller tools due to parallax error and the field of view of the camera. There is a method for this called shadow boxing, works very well, but good shadow boxes are very tall to avoid these errors. All depends on how much error you can tolerate.
Have you scanned one with your phone and it’s built in scanner?
Next time at the end put the tools in it ;) Otherwise great video, thank you.
The pockets you do have flat bottom. Any chance you would know how to do 3d shape for the bottom ?
You would have to switch to a very sharp ball nose endmill, then model the shape in the design environment in fusion and then use a 3D tool path like steep and shallow to cut the profile. I do a little of this in the newest video on making a rain cover for a light. Another alternative, if you don’t want smooth flowing bottom shapes is to divide the bottom of the pocket into multiple level, I think this would work.
Might as well carve your foam with the lightning from thors hammer!
I like it so much but the software's part a little bit long , overall thanks
Where can I get the same close/cross cell foam he uses?
It's in the comments, but I'll post here too:
- FastCap Foam, 4’x2’ Sheet, 57mm Thick (Size used in video): amzn.to/3kyu6Kb
- FastCap Foam, 4’x2’ Sheet, 30mm Thick (Half as thick as used in video): amzn.to/3ypKWQr
You know how much time i will spend? like eternity. If i pay you will you make me?
Great, all i need is $10,000 worth of equipment to make a $20 piece of foam. Jez
And many hours to learn the software and the machine setup.For the majority of us an exacto knife and a router would do the job unless your going to do hundreds of copies of each.
More like $30kz
Sawstop = $5k.
Atlas CNC = $15k+ USED.
Software and other tooling = $10k+
Or order cut foam from a distributor by sending in an image (svg) for $80. These clowns are highlarious
A lot of makers already have the software skills these days. With all the 3D printing, cnc, laser stuff this go’s hand in hand. Nothing wrong with it, or the hand tool way. Why be so negative about it?
The tools you can pay 20k for, or more. Or way less..
Sharing knowledge/how-to’s is always cool! Acting like a grumpy old man about it is not..
Dan, are you able to email us. Interested in offering you a partnership.