A numerically controlled machine tool is a treasure trove of earning opportunities. So it seems to everyone who buys it with the purpose of enriching themselves on the creation of wooden or metal elements. In practice, it turns out that this is the case. The only thing that a CNC machine can not do is to look for customers and sell. Here, as in any business, you need the skills of a manager.
CNC machine capabilities:
Such a machine is a perfect fusion of engineering and artistic flight of fancy. The machine can create almost any shaped surfaces on wooden or metal workpieces. All that remains is to learn how to work on it and find high-quality 3d stl models for CNC.
Walking products:
CNC machine business ideas are the products that are most in demand. They can either be purely functional or completely decorative. Below are five of the most popular ways to make money from products created with CNC equipment.
1. Furniture:
The machine can do everything: from drawing a figurative pattern on the facades of MDF to the creation of exclusive interior and household items made of valuable species of natural wood. For the first, simple available 3d models are enough. Exclusive always involves joint work with a designer and programming unique codes for CNC.
The main directions here: the manufacture of tabletops, furniture legs, armrests, casings, headboards, drawing patterns on the surface.
See also the article: 3d models of furniture for manufacturing from wood.
2. Decor for decoration and interior items:
This category includes all kinds of interior decor: small carved overlays, decorative wall moldings, figural elements, wall panels, tiles. On the CNC machine can be cut and any products for the interior, including baguettes for mirrors and paintings, original clocks in a carved case, unusual sconces, shaped pillars and columns, portals for fireplaces and carved balusters for stair railing. And also many other things.
3. artistic products:
Another fairly broad category. Includes story paintings, panels, coats of arms, statuettes, bas-reliefs, and souvenirs. Creative people on CNC machines can create real works of art, which after additional processing (varnish, paint, patination) are sold for a good value.
4. Religious themes:
The variety of this category is astounding: from wooden crosses, figures, frames and icons to entire iconostases and other items of decoration of churches and temples. Of course, these are specific tasks, but if you perform them according to the canons, customers will constantly.
5. Objects to order:
Imagination has no limits here. On a CNC machine they cut out anything. Flat shapes, openwork letters, inscriptions. Huge hashtags for photo shoots, names for wedding celebrations, names of newborns with weight and height, special hangers for medals, elements for decorating shop windows and restaurants and other exclusive details are popular.
This can also include all kinds of models (including molds for casting, stamps and prototypes), vases, caskets, Christmas and holiday paraphernalia, products for creativity and so on. Including quite voluminous things.
The advantage of the program for CNC machine - it can be used repeatedly, making whole series and sets, creating many similar blanks.
Where to look for customers:
Points of sale for carved items are sought in the traditional ways: calling, sending sales proposals, posting finished works on websites and social networks. Customers of the company for the production of elements on the CNC machine become:
furniture makers, individuals or small companies. Large manufacturers usually have their own equipment;
designers and artists;
advertising companies and holiday decoration firms;
religious organizations;
individuals who are ready to buy and order souvenirs, home and cottage decor, gifts for management, volume inscriptions, caskets, vases, etc.
Where to get a 3d model for CNC machine?
For 2d cutting are suitable models created in CorelDraw, they show the path of movement of the cutter. Three-dimensional models need more complex programs: AutoCad, SolidEdge, CADDSS and others. You can program the element yourself, but it is better to entrust it to an engineer with experience. The program sets the position of the cutting tool at every moment, and one wrong step will ruin the entire workpiece.
Company STL24 offers ready-made 3d models in stl format and exclusive solutions for your sketches. All our models are sure to be original, single, new. Created from scratch - will fully meet your needs, if you need a variant of 3d model is not presented on the site. Buyers are sure to appreciate the individual approach, things created especially for them.
An important advantage of models purchased or ordered from us - they can be edited, resized, and used repeatedly.
Our company has been creating 3D models for CNC machines since 2005. Among our customers are large furniture manufacturing companies, Russian and foreign designers. Order stl files by contacting us by phone, messengers and social networks (section "Contacts").
