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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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