Hot Wire Foam Cutting Cnc Machine Review - FoxAlien HW40

Review of the FoxAlien HW40 hot wire foam cutting cnc machine.
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FoxAlien HW40 Hot Wire Foam Cnc Machine
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Slicer for fusion 360
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Wing designer
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00:00 Introduction
00:35 Build
02:06 PCBWay
02:43 Software
03:37 New York
08:38 Spitfire
10:49 Wing
11:50 Rotary
18:31 Rotary 2
19:25 Teardown
20:00 Conclusion

[@techydiy]

FoxAlien HW40 Hot Wire Foam Cnc Machine
bit.ly/3bff63t
Slicer for fusion 360
knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/downloads/caas/downloads/content/slicer-for-fusion-360.html
Wing designer
www.diyrcwings.com/app/
Some of the links above are affiliate links. If you click on the link and buy something, you will not pay anything extra, but I might receive a small income, which is used to pay for future videos.

[@David-iq1kd]

Does FoxAlien no longer offer this machine - and if not do you know a good alternative

[@muesli4597]

Very nice machine and presentation

[@thomasedmonds6028]

I now use a single point attachment hot wire, that I pull the wire around an inside aluminum template to make tapered wings. It's like 138" long.Would this one have enough strength to allow a couple of pounds pull on the wire attachment to direct the wire around the airfoil shape? Thanks! 😀

[@juanvolvoturbo]

This was amazing! Thank you very much.

[@bounceurabdelaziz4973]

Thanks very much for your sharing ,fantastic machine,My greetings for you from Algeria 🇩🇿.

[@FlightSim2703]

Awesome printer thanks for sharing , if I don't make a mistake, you introduced also another CNC printer, which I purchased in past, I wish I purchased this one instead 😊

[@freedom2000]

excellent video and tutorial.
I would like to use this technics to cut a fuselage of a plane. the cut half profiles should be changed anytime the rotary axis moves. I am looking for a software to generate the gcodes... not found yet ! Any idea on how to cut this king of non symetical profiles ?

[@pilotmiami1]

Bravo. Perfect

[@romaharashov1471]

hi, your video turned out great! I’ve had the machine for less than a year and everything was fine, I adjusted the string tension, temperature and speed. all was good. But a couple of days, in places where the string passes simultaneously along the X-axis and the Y-axis, small waves are visible on the cut material due to the fact that the string vibrates. square shapes cut fine. but on rounded forms a problem appears. maybe you can tell me how to fix this?

[@nigelgreen7489]

Excellent review. I am interested in cutting foam wings, Is it limited to constant chord wings ? or are you able to cut different root and tip chord widths and thicknesses ?

[@techydiy]

It can only cut constant chord wings, for different root and tip wings you need a 4 axis machine.

[@pilotmiami1]

Bravo.perfect

[@theartoftonyv]

FoxAlien no longer offers this cnc machine.... Sad

[@posegroup6177]

hi this is ok, but how do u cut centres out of letters? it will need to be told to go in and come out of the same path so theres only one path in and out
thanks

[@AbelJimenez-zo2pt]

Hi, can you show me the steps on how to save and get the design from inkstape to ugs and to the cutting cnc please

[@gaspararteaga2070]

Very good, thanks

[@vasili1207]

love seeing more welsh people on youtube doing stuff i love to do ... better than fifa

[@vinodart2617]

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[@lyesakkouche8285]

Hi, Thanks for présentation, i have one question please, is it possible to cut foam as cnc lathe also ?

[@techydiy]

Yes, you can

[@johnallen8680]

Unfortunately discontinued. Non commercial CNC hotwire cutters seem to as rare as hens teeth !
I've found a manufacturer in Eastonia ( a country just east of Germany) and asked for a quote. They make commercial machines, but I've asked them to quote on their smallest machine that looks a similar size as this one.

[@maxdu60120]

Hello i from France and i want buy one is possible ?

[@ashokkanna1394]

How to buy this

[@gaspararteaga2070]

Hello, I live in the USA and I am interested in manufacturing an EPS cutter for 60x120x100 centimeter blocks, with the hot wire in the direction of the 120 centimeter measurement, Thank you

[@besimtairi7196]

What price this machine?

[@farkhodkhikmatov4738]

Hey brotha I created a GCode on fusion 360 but on grbl its coming out a little weird, do you think I can send you the file and you can check it out for me? I needed this specific profile, it's little bigger than printer can support but I am trying to do in sections

[@zulfiqaralizulfi3250]

Your price

[@lgarnand318]

Looks like FoxAlien is no longer making the HW40. Also Autodesk is not supporting the slicer anylonger.

[@SADNESSOFHUMANITY]

They don't sell them any more

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

There's gotta be a better way to make gcode than that Inkscape plugin. I've been using it for engraving/milling and it grates a bit.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

if I'd waited 0.5 seconds I'd have seen you go on to Fusion 360 :D

[@techydiy]

I agree it wouldn’t be a natural choice, although I like Inkscape itself. You can use pretty much any cad / cam with a grbl post processor.

[@zulfiqaralizulfi3250]

@@techydiy your price

[@aansusanto3041]

How much if i want buy this machine

[@kjohnson6740]

Do you still have one for sale?

[@zulfiqaralizulfi3250]

Your price

[@pnemonic1]

If anyone has one for sale please let me know. They just discontinued them.

[@RedditRevisit]

I also need one if you get hold of one from somewhere let me know please

[@kjohnson6740]

Does anyone know why they discontinued them?

[@NickSmith-hv9zi]

What gives? Machine no longer available.