Not very large at all, although I'm hesitant to predict very far into the future. In the forseeable future, we will not require anything that cannot fit within a 5" cube.
I found some VMC's on eBay, and these look like they are far, far beyond what we have for startup budget. It looks like buuying a used Haas ($30k) would be more than sending every prototype we need to eMachineShop.
I guess what I really don't know is where the dividing line in performance is, between 'toy', and 'real' cnc. What kind of parts are on the borderline between manufacturable and not-manufacturable for, say, $5000 of homebuilt system?
Last edited by Ubarch; 01-30-2005 at 01:03 PM.
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