CNC router projects are gaining more popularity in both machinery industry and personal hobby. Compared with traditional hand carving, CNC router project possesses such advantages as high production efficiency, high machining precision, high rate of finished products and labor saving.
Do you know what are CNC router projects or have your ever made your own CNC router projects? Do you have any excellent CNC project plans or CNC router ideas? Have you ever seen any amazing or profitable CNC router projects? In this article, I’ll show you some popular CNC router projects from our customers in 13 industries, and I hope you can get some inspiration from them.
What are CNC router projects?
Just as the name implies, CNC router projects refer to the project or product processed and manufactured by a CNC router. There are may categories of CNC router, for example, CNC wood router, stone CNC router, hobby CNC router, EPS/foam CNC machine, laser cutting machine, CNC plasma cutting machine etc.
Enterprises or individuals can use different types of CNC machine to develop different CNC router projects. For instance, a large-sized CNC wood router can launch wood CNC projects, like wooden furniture, building plates, advertising signs; a small CNC router is capable of carving and cutting all kinds of 2D/3D signs, patterns, logos, letters, numbers on wood; and a laser cutting machine is able to engrave and cut various materials by means of laser. The products made by such profitable CNC projects are widely applied to all sectors.
Classification of CNC router projects
As mentioned in the above that different CNC routers are capable of developing corresponding CNC router projects. Except that, we can also classify the CNC router projects according to the processing materials used in respective project.
Wood CNC router projects
The primary materials used in the wood CNC router projects is wood, including but not limited to redwood, cedar, walnut, mahogany and maple. We believe that even though with single type of material, we can produce various products. Products manufactured in wood CNC router projects mainly include wooden furniture like doors, cabinets, sofa, tables and chairs, crafts, artworks, models, toys, decorations, musical instruments, etc.
The wood CNC router projects are carried out mainly by CNC wood routers, for example, the wooden furniture engraving machine, hobby CNC router and wood milling machine. You can also add certain advanced configurations to complete complex wood CNC projects, such as separate spindles, 4 axis, 5 axis, ATC etc. according to actual requirements.
Fiberboard CNC router projects
Fiberboard is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers. It may include particle board, low density fiberboard (LDF), medium density fiberboard (MDF) and high density fiberboard (HDF) in terms of density. The fiberboard has smooth surface, fine material, stable performance, firm edges and good decorative surface. So the fiberboard is widely used in many products, such as furniture, wood floor, indoor decoration, packaging etc.
The fiberboard CNC router projects adopt CNC router as the main machine. Using a CNC router to process fiberboard has many advantages, such as high precision, high output and less waste. Compared with solid wood board, fiberboard has a higher cost performance. Selecting fiberboard to develop your profitable CNC router projects are quite a good choice.
Metal CNC router projects
Metal CNC router projects are the projects dealing with metal materials, such as gold, steel, copper and aluminum. As metal materials have certain property of rigidity and ductility, metal products are extensively applied in many fields. Products of metal CNC projects include metal parts, mould, advertising signs, crafts, jewelry, toys, architecture structure etc.
Metal CNC router projects are accomplished by the metal CNC router, which can process metal materials with high precision and high production efficiency. The metal CNC router is suitable for carving, engraving, milling and drilling almost all sorts of metal materials. Metal CNC router projects involve in jewelry, automotive, mould, ironware and other industries.
Stone CNC router projects
The most commonly seen stone CNC projects in daily life include wall reliefs, stone sculptures and various household supplies, such as marble countertop. Other stone CNC projects also involve letter carving on the stone, jewelry machining and stone cutting and milling, etc. Traditional stone engraving work requires tremendous manpower, energy and raw materials and also takes a very long term to finish. However, the CNC engraving machine realizes the mechanized and automated production of stone carving products. This significantly improves the processing efficiency.
The materials processed in this project mainly include granite, marble, artificial stone, sandstone, crystal, jade and other kinds of stone materials. The common processing methods include embossing, lettering, cutting, hollowing out, seamless stitching, surface treatment, table milling and so on.
Quartz stone CNC router projects
What we usually call quartz stone is a type of new stone material. It is synthesized from over 90% quartz crystals with resins and other trace elements. The main products of this project include quartz stone countertop, background wall, and wash basin etc.
As one type of stone CNC router projects, the quartz stone CNC router projects adopt the stone CNC machining center as the major machine. It applies to the machining process of hollowing, engraving, chamfering and polishing of the quartz stone wash basin, tea tray and countertop. The machining center can reduce the tool-changing time and wastes, and increase the utilization rate of raw material. It can also be used in other quartz stone CNC router projects, such as mural, lettering, relief and hollowing.
Styrofoam CNC router projects
The Styrofoam CNC router projects take the Styrofoam as the raw material. The Styrofoam, also called expandable phlystyrene (EPS), has many features. For example, low relative density, low heat conductivity, small water-absorbing quality, impact vibration resistant, thermal insulation, etc. The Styrofoam CNC router project produces many products, such as shockproof packaging of fragile articles, thermal insulation materials and decorations.
The CNC machine adopted in the Styrofoam CNC router projects are the foam CNC router. And the foam CNC router usually has large machining dimension, so it also occupies large space. This kind of CNC router does a good job in carving or cutting of large scale workpieces in different materials, such as wood, aluminum, Styrofoam, but not for steel, iron, etc. If you have good CNC project plans about Styrofoam, don’t hesitate to contact us. We can help you choose a suitable CNC router to launch your profitable CNC router projects with Styrofoam.
Arcylic CNC router projects
Arcylic, also called polymethyl methacrylate or organic glass, is one of the most ideal engraving materials. The arcylic material has excellent machinability in spite of any processing methods, such as cutting, milling, engraving, caring, and drilling. Popular arcylic CNC projects include experimental appliance, mould, advertising ornaments and signs, artistic lamps, crafts, souvenirs etc.
At present, the acrylic CNC projects are mainly realized by laser machine or CNC router. The strong combination of CNC router with arcylic material will definitely create more and more excellent products.
Paper CNC router projects
Do you know even a paper invitation card can be processed by a CNC router?
Paper, especially corrugated paper, is one of the most common materials in our daily life. More than that, the paper tableware, paper stationery, paper packaging and paper artworks are also common products of paper CNC router project.
CNC engraving machine or CNC router for paper is the “master of art” that manufactures these products. When you have perfect CNC router ideas about your paper products, you can input them in the software. With help of the software, the CNC router can perfectly understand various complex graphics and be able to engrave the graphics on paper surface. During the cutting process, CNC Router will not generate any tool wear or mechanical deformation. So the loss rate of paper material is small but the yield is high, which maximizes the utilization of paper material.
Glass CNC router projects
Glass is one of the most commonly seen material in our daily life. Nowadays, an increasing number of glass manufacturing enterprises adopt CNC machines to develop their glass CNC router project. CNC machining can achieve high precision and high productivity, bringing more revenue to enterprises. The Glass CNC router project mainly involve cutting, punching, engraving and lettering of the glass material. And the glass products made by such project may include glass tableware, trophy, artworks, decorations, and construction products.
Glass CNC router project can be achieved by glass CNC engraving and cutting machine. Cutting glass with a CNC machine doesn’t need any spectacularly specialist equipment. All you need is a diamond burr, or glass drilling bit, high speed, low feed and some coolant. Large glass machining enterprises may add tool magazine or tool changing system to the CNC machine to develop their profitable CNC projects. This can realize mass production with high efficiency.
Rubber CNC router projects
Rubber material is widely used in industry production and commercial activities. The rubber CNC router project provides people with many essential daily and medical rubber products. In addition, this profitable CNC projects can also provide various rubber parts and components in various industries. For example, excavating, transportation, construction, machinery, electronics and other emerging industries.
CNC Router plays an important role in rubber CNC router project. If you have good rubber CNC project plans, the CNC router can help you to put them into practice. It can make rubber official seals and rubber sheets. What’s more, it can also process EVA artificial rubber sheets, rubber signs, coasters, slippers, sculptures and other handicrafts. CNC router can not only reduce the processing time, but also increase the productivity of rubber products.
Fabric CNC router projects
As a type of fast-moving customer goods, clothes and other fabric products have tremendous market demands. Therefore, more and more garment and textile manufacturers select CNC machine to launch their profitable CNC projects. These CNC machines can satisfy their large requirements on cutting, engraving and carving.
The fabric CNC projects mainly adopt the fabric CNC cutting machine or laser CNC cutter to finish the products. Traditional fabric processing technology has long production process and single patterns. Disadvantages of traditional fabric machine include high production cost and long production cycle. However, the laser CNC machine used in fabric projects fully solves the problem of inefficiency and waste of materials. Because the laser CNC machine has high efficiency, high precision and low waste rate.
CNC router projects of other materials
Apart from the above CNC router project, there are also many other projects adopting other materials, such as ceramics, gypsum, resin, etc. Selecting the right CNC machine for your project will make your work with less effort but more achievements. No matter what materials you choose to develop your profitable CNC projects, Blue Elephant CNC router can help.
Popular CNC router projects in 13 industries
Below I’ll show some samples of popular CNC router project in 13 different industries. I hope these samples can help you come up your own CNC router ideas.
1.Wooden furniture
The above pictures are the real CNC wood projects coming from our real customers. Even though they engage in different business, they all choose our CNC routers to develop their profitable CNC router projects.
Wooden furniture accounts for a large proportion in wood CNC projects. The CNC wood router used for wooden furniture can realize the digitization of the machining process, such as setting out, punching, slotting, edge banding and other process. It significantly increases the rate of finished products and the production efficiency while improving the level of repeatability and standardization of the products.
2.Crafts, gifts and artworks
The crafts in above pictures are the CNC craft products made by our true customers. Some of them are simply craft hobbyists loving doing awesome things with their hands. And some are workshops engaging in producing creative gifts, artworks, crafts, souvenirs and other profitable CNC projects.
Recently, CNC router project is gaining increasing popularity in conference, games and travel events. An an increasing number of medals, certificates, souvenirs and advertising materials are made in CNC router project. So the craft and gift products are one of the profitable CNC projects that small factories or workshops that can’t miss.
3.Advertising signs
The pictures showed above is the advertising signs produced by our customers with our CNC routers. They use our CNC routers to make different types of signs for multiple occasions. For example, company name plates, advertising signs, direction boards for showing direction or displaying certain information. The materials used in these signs include but not limited to wood, metal, arcylic, resin, glass and so on. The advertising signs made in the CNC router project by routers are neat and beautiful, which can not only provide clear information, but also improve the company image.
4.Architecture Decoration
These pictures show the CNC router project carried out by our customers for architecture decoration. Many architects or building designers choose to use the forms of relief, hollowed-out work or 3D sculpture or their unique designs to decorate the architecture. The architecture is more vivid and less rigid with such decoration.
The output of China’s construction materials has ranked first all over the world. Now it is developing rapidly towards high quality and various designs and colors. The CNC router is capable of producing large amount of elaborate moulds for the construction materials such as plaster ceiling, ceramic tile etc. And this will, in turn, bring in more revenue for enterprises. The CNC router project has been widely adopted in construction industry.
5.Moulds
Another popular CNC router project is mould. Mould is a tool used in the production of industrial products, and mainly applied in manufacturing industry. Mould belongs to a mechanical product with high precision, so even a little error in dimension may cause the parts produced by the mould to be unusable. However, the moulds produced by CNC routers have high precision, which is conducive for the subsequent mass production.
6.MDF boards
The picture shows a gorilla image engraved by our customers on a MDF board. As you can see from the picture, the gorilla image is very clear and vivid. You can even see the hair of the gorilla. The vivid image also reflects the high precision and high quality of our CNC routers.
Another big purpose of MDF boards is furniture, like cabinets, wardrobes, closets. HDF has high density and is prone to crack, so we usually adopt MDF to make furniture. The HDF is often used for indoor and outdoor decoration, vehicle decoration, security doors, partitions etc.
7.Styrofoam products
The pictures show a car mould and a packaging box made by CNC routers. As we mentioned above, Styrofoam has high machinability. As long as you have good CNC project plans or CNC router ideas, the CNC router can make them come true. The packaging box can be customized according the specific product form. As the Styrofoam has excellent compression resistance, it is usually used for protecting the fragile products in the transportation process.
Another common Styrofoam CNC router project is Styrofoam board. The Styrofoam has outstanding thermal insulation performance. So Styrofoam board often used as the thermal insulation material for building walls, roofs, air conditioners, vehicles etc.
8.Quartz stone countertop
The countertop of the cabinet in the picture is made out of quartz stone by our customers. As the popular CNC router projects, quartz stone countertop has many advantages. It is wear-resisting, thermal resistant, seamless in splicing, not likely to break and very durable. The quartz stone board can be laid on floor or walls in a large area. And it extensively applies in different places, such as, office buildings, apartments, hotels, malls, subway stations, airports, hospitals, libraries, etc.
9.Paper cards and artworks
These are the paper invitation card and artwork from our customers of CNC routers. It is also one of the profitable CNC router projects popular in customers. After the processing of CNC Router, the paper products have high precision, delicate effect and strong 3-D impression. Some also show novel engraving styles.
If you have outstanding paper CNC router ideas or CNC project plans, you can make a design drawing with the help of design software. Then you can select paper of appropriate thickness and size, and now you can make unique paper cards with CNC routers.
The paper cards and artworks perfectly embody the characteristics of CNC routers, i.e. high precision and efficiency. The CNC routers can also make 3D or more creative paper decoration products for your profitable CNC projects.
10.Toys and models
Another commonly seen CNC router projects are toys and models. For example, building models, mechanical models, automobile models and vessel models. Models are deemed as the oldest design tool, while the modern CNC router project has given models more novel meaning and wider applications. The toys made by CNC routers have high precision and many styles, and are popular in kids. Some hobbyists start their profitable CNC projects from making homemade toys with a CNC router to sell in their neighbourhood or online.
11.Double-color plates
The pictures display the samples of double-color plates of a popular CNC router projects. Double-color plate is a new type of decoration material. It takes ABS as the basic material, and is combined with a color plate or metal material. Double-color plates not only have features of impact resistance, heat resistance and low-temperature resistance of ABS material. At the same time, it also has advantages of good machinability and stable size of finished products. Double-color plates are widely used in architectural decoration, exhibition, advertising signs production and other industries.
12.Musical instruments
There are many musical instruments, especially wooden ones, that can be manufactured by CNC routers. For example, string instruments like guitar, violin, ukulele, guzheng and erhu and percussion instruments like clapper, drums, flute, etc. CNC routers are the best machine to make musical instruments with strings, because the CNC router can achieve high precision. Even the inlays, curves and joints on simple instruments can be completed accurately with CNC routers.
13.Jewelry
As a fashion product, the design and manufacture of jewelry is always at the forefront of fashion. The design is constantly updated, so the manufacturing has to keep up. The CNC router project of jewelry is becoming more common. More and more jewelry manufacturers choose to use CNC machines to process the gold, silver, gemstone and diamond. By doing this, it can maintain high precision while ensuring high output. If you have a DIY CNC router, you may also start your own profitable CNC projects by adding a laser for really intricate work to create your unique jewelry.
These are only the tip of an iceberg of the CNC router project popular in customers. There are still tremendous amazing CNC router ideas, CNC project plans or CNC router project in various industries. As long as you have good CNC router ideas, you can launch a CNC router project. A good CNC router project can be very profitable.
How to develop your CNC router projects
If you want to develop your CNC router project, what should you take into consideration? Whether you are a large CNC machining enterprise, or a craft hobbyist or a CNC router beginner, you can take the following steps to launch your CNC router project.
Step 1 Come up with your CNC router ideas
The CNC router ideas can also refer to your purpose. In other words, what product you want to make with your CNC router. For instance, if you are a large CNC furniture machining enterprise, you may consider an unique table design idea to produce tables that are not available in the market. Sales of such tables may bring you a large amount of sales revenue.
If you are a handicraft enthusiast, you may think of a woodcarving ideas to make some crafts as the gifts for the guests coming to your wedding. In case that you don’t have any CNC router ideas in mind, you can search on the Internet. The amazing and fun CNC router ideas online may give you inspiration.
Step 2 Make your CNC project plans
If you confirm that your CNC router ideas are feasible, you have to make CNC project plans based on the CNC router ideas. The CNC router project plans shall be concrete as much as possible. For example, if you are a large furniture machining enterprise, you have to make a design drawing of your new table; look for the right material and suitable CNC machine; determine the quantity and release time; come up with propaganda and marketing strategies; record the sales and feedback etc. The overall plan may require coordination of multiple departments in the enterprise.
If you intends to make crafts for your guests, you may have to make a CNC project plan for, for example, the design, size and quantity of the crafts; the time required; the settings of the router you’ll use and other aspects. No matter what you do, there is always a plan before the operation.
Step 3 Choose or set suitable CNC router
After you’ve made your CNC project plans, you’ll have to choose a suitable CNC router or set your router to make your plans come true. If you are a large furniture machining enterprise, you can choose Blue Elephant ATC CNC Router or 4 axis, 5 axis or multi-head CNC router to launch your profitable CNC projects. All these routers can meet your requirements to the machining process with high precision, high productivity, and high rate of finished products. But if you can’t afford an industrial CNC router, you may build a DIY CNC router by yourself.
Step 4 Implement your CNC project plans
By now, you have a feasible plan and a suitable machine to make your CNC project plans come true. It is time to start your profitable CNC projects in accordance with your plan. Please note that, in the actual implementation of your CNC project plans, you may need to adjust the plan, the CNC router or machining parameters sometimes. Therefore, you should monitor the entire machining process to avoid any delay in progress due to rework or other reasons. Besides, always be careful when use the CNC router.
Conclusion
After reading the above article, do you get your CNC router ideas? Do you have an impulsion to start your own profitable CNC router projects? Whether you want to launch wood CNC router projects, metal CNC router projects or any other CNC router projects, you can always find a suitable CNC router machine from Blue Elephant. We can customize a CNC router based on your CNC router projects. Or you can tell us you CNC router ideas or plans, we will give you professional advice to help you choose or use a CNC router with efficiency.
