I updated the objectives based on inputs I've gleaned from the thread. To be perfectly honest, while it would be wonderfull for there to be a "standard", realistically I don't think it fits the bill. Most everybody has different objectives, maybe minor, maybe major. In the first post of this thread, I pointed to a FREE 2D CAD package, and a design file. My hope was several fold, we could learn from each others mistakes, take input from those who had been successful and get their take on what they wish they had done different, then to evolve a design and techniques that people could go with or modify to suit their individual wants. Then repost their design so that there would get to be a whole host of plans available. Pictures and techniques that people can reasonably understand, maybe the most important part of the equation, rather than a common design. Please reread the very first post in this thread about the objectives and see how your desires fit, or suggestions to be made for changes. I'd like to get it to the point where somebody comming to the thread can say YES it fits me or No it doesn't. I'd like to move on and nail down some specifics. To me these two machine's exemplfy the type of machine the objective set out for:
CBCnc's
http://www.cnczone.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/291
http://www.cnczone.com/gallery/showp.../cat/500/page/
Chucknights:
http://www.cnczone.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/27
Phil
Others to glean from:
Balsamans
http://www.cnczone.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/122
http://home.comcast.net/~machinecnc/...nc_router.html
Thought provokers
http://www.cnczone.com/gallery/showp...cat/500/page/1
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~bows0006/
http://www.rcmodels.net/cnc/hobby/cnc.html
http://www.geocities.com/fneagu/cnc_engraver.htm
Cranky's designs as thought provokers
http://www.crankorgan.com./