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What is Foam Prototyping and Modeling?

Foam prototyping or modeling, not to be confused with rapid prototyping is a great tool to test your products prior to mass production.

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Make a CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutter From Parts Available at Your Local Hardware Store

Make a CNC hot wire foam cutter from parts available at a local hardware store

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Hot Wire CNC Foam Cutter - Build Your Own

Introductory on how to build a low cost hot wire foam cutter made of steel. The design can be modified to almost any size

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1st Stage in Building Your Own Hot Wire Foam Cutter - The Vertical Axis (Y and A axis)

The 1st stage in building your own hot wire foam cutter would be establishing the 2 Y-Axis (the towers) from posts found at Home Depot.

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2nd Stage in Building Your Own Hot Wire Foam Cutter - Horizontal Axis (X and Z axis)

The 2nd stage in building your own hot wire foam cutter would be establishing the 2 horizontal axis (X and Z Axis.

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DevFoam CAD for Generating G Code for your CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutter

To generate a GCode for your hot wire foam cutter that you built you would need a CAD software such as DevFoam

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DIY Hot Wire Foam Cutter - Lead Screw & Nuts

3rd stage of building your own hot wire foam cutter is creating the lead screw and nuts with stainless steel threaded rods

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The software Mach3 for Operating your CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutter

After building your CNC hot wire foam cutter, you would need to download Mach3 to operate the machine

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Finalizing and Putting All Parts Together - DIY Hot Wire Foam Cutter

For finalizing building your CNC hot wire foam cutter you will need a variac to vary voltage to the hot wire, changing its temperatures

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How to Build RC Foam Plane?

How to design and build an electric RC plane prototype from Depron material, with Instant Engineer program.

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EPS Foam Base and Cap Cutter

Instruction on how to build your own EPS foam base and cap using turntable, wire mounting mechanism and hot wire power supply

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Electronic Board for DIY Hot Wire Foam Cutter

You would need a 4 Axis stepper motor board to enable the motors to run when you build your own CNC hot wire foam cutter

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Option for Mach3 Software with Joystick for DIY CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutter

For operating your CNC hot wire foam cutter that you built yourself, you can use Mach3 software with a joystick version

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Home Built Hot Wire EPS Foam Recycler (work in progress)

You can build your own EPS foam recycler at home using an instrument rack or a wooden wire cage and a wire mesh

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Other CNC Hot Wire Foam Cutting Machines Design

CNC hot wire foam cutting machines people built based on our design with their improvements and modifications

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How is EPS Foam Block Manufactured?

EPS foam block, also known as Polystyrene or Styrene, is made of beads, blown into larger beads about 50 times its original size.

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How to coat crown moldings

This post demonstrates how to coat EPS foam for crown molding, in order for the stucco to adhere to the cement coat, with tite mesh.

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Sample Cuts

Sample cuts of what can be cut using a DIY CNC hot wire foam cutter you built yourself - Architectural shapes, wings, letters, signs, logo

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What is EPS Foam?

Polystyrene is a polymer made from the monomer Styrene, also known as EPS, that can be cut with a Hot Wire foam cutter .

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What is Polyurethane Foam?

This post lists facts about Polyurethane foam (also known as Urethane), a light firm hydrothermal insulation material.

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