Rethinking the Carbide3D Shapeoko HDM, starting from the ground up and adding ATC & 3D Probing! 

I went down the same route about 2 years ago now. It was on a self designed cnc, but without ATC. AXBB-E with breakouts are so extendable, and UCCNC is great. I wish I had better coding skills to expand functionality. But what exists on the forums and trial+error modifications got me where I needed. Certainly not for the faint of heart, but totally worth it. One future upgrade I might still recommend for you is some closed loop steppers. Price is not much more than standard motors and drives, but having position fault detection is a nice piece of mind when cutting aluminum. Great video and details as always. I would love a video on some of your mcode and postprocess mods. Maybe I could learn some tricks :)

You've basically built the CNC machine I'm after. I just don't have the skills to do what you have done. Great job and I'm sure it was very satisfying.

Fascinating. Looking forward to deeper dives on the various changes you’ve done!

Great video! That seems like an incredibly intimidating amount of work, but I'm glad that you ended up with something that is significantly more usable for your use case. Very motivating for me to tackle a tough project!

That looks like a ton of work! Very interesting and informative thank you for creating this. I had no clue about UCCNC existing prior to this video.

great job on the atc rack

Incredible amount of work and a huge leap forward for me in my understanding of this machine and frankly CNC capacity/capability in general. Thank you! I say start a CNC company at this point!

When I got my desktop Prolight 2000 I was lucky to have initially sided with UCCNC controller and never looked back. With that I was able to retrofit 100% of the original machines capability with ATC and probing and even added 4th axis, a custom pendant and M8 mist airblast. I am controlling 8 relays and 4 axis. I think you could use the tool rack advancement and eliminate the need for Y travel when changing tools. This could save even more room on the table.

Good video thanks. I very interested to hear more on atc spindle, looking to install one myself

You have mad skills my friend. Wish I had the patience and definitely would buy you a six pack to tour your shop.

I did a ton of the same stuff, I did centroid with acorn and servos but I did the Saunders, probe, JGL spindle. Definitely lot of good info in this one

Just found your channel and am enjoying it immensely. I did two CNC conversions last year working with the local First Robotics group. We did both machines with the Centronics Acorn, which I am very impressed with. Centronics does large machines but offers the Acorn for $325 which includes a basic software package. I just ordered a 750 x 750 Workbee Ultimate and plan on using the Acorn on that. The software we use on the team is Inventor which interfaces great with the Acorn. Anyway looking forward to more of your videos on the HDM.

Please share more really interested. Thanks very much

I'm definitely interested in hearing more. Whatever CNC I buy next, ATC would be part of the plan from the beginning. The HDM has been high on my list, though I'm curious to see how the Shapeoko 5 Pro compares from a rigidity perspective, as a 2x2 would fit my needs. Thanks for sharing, I think this will benefit a lot of people.

Great work as always, David. I sure am glad I dont have the space in my garage for another machine (still having fun modding the S3) otherwise I would surly tumble down the rabbit hole, but I still love watching these videos nonetheless. Keep up the great work!

I was thinking something similar to this. Buy an HDM use as is, then covert to Centroid with CNC Depot Spindle and Possibly Clearpath Servos.

Hello, I would like to give you an idea or advice. The new cnc models that are coming out from some competitors have very large parts apart from the machine itself, such as the screens and the cnc controllers. A large screen is more comfortable, but it will be even more comfortable to work from a laptop or PC when we are inside a house and where you don't normally have an industrial type work area. An example that I give is the Stepcraft cnc machine, it has several models and sizes, it is strong but also its controller is located inside the machine itself, thus saving space and cables. I think that a design can be large and at the same time minimalist and that the client will value it very much and it will be a product that will sell well.

Awesome job! That's basically my major complaint with the HDM: after all the work to get it where I want it, I might as well start from scratch. For me fabricating the XYZ plates and rails is trivial to get the motion components nailed down is trivial compared to all the wiring and control board programming that you tackled here

Man, this is awesome. Really makes me reconsider how dumb I want to get with my $125 Shapeoko 3.

Feel like you probably should have bought a used HAUS. You did an awesome job and I'm sure you learned alot. But Im questioning the amount of time and money put into this. What are you thoughts on the difference in cost between the two options? The downside of a used HAUS I suppose is electrical power and the floor would have to be reinforced and you may still not have the same volume of workspace. I bought a shapeoko with the z-plus but I think when I outgrow this machine I will upgrade to a new machine. Maybe an AVID. I dont like that there is no 4th axis possibility with the shapeoko.

Just got an HDM and would love to mod it in similar way. Did you end up releasing more information on the schematics, parts, etc. somewhere?

Can you link the websites, where you bought the products. Thx

can you do a mach3 series?

you're 4 Clearpath servos away from living the dream dude! nice work tho, I ended up running the Pokeys57CNC controller soooooooooooo much I/O, locked to MACH4 tho..

Damn. A lot of work Is the Laguna tools iq small version better than the hdm ? I’m thinking of purchasing either one.

you said 12-15K inches per minuet rapids. Is that right or did you mean to say mm per min? Some cut shots and some stats would be nice to see. feeds, speeds, MRR depth of cut width of cut and materials to test would be 6061 T6 and 304 stainless. Lets see it do some work. And I have always been skeptical of the wats these type of machines run on the spindle. 1500 watts on a proper CNC machine would require about 1 ton of mass to back it up. So it would also be nice to see the amp draw at it's most capable cut. Nice video and thanks for making it.

where did you source your aluminum bed im looking for something similar

Lotta great stuff in here but 15:49 I think your mistaken, machine could never go that high.

Can we see this thing make chips?

Can you provide some insights on how you got a custom large spindle attached to the HDM? I'm planning on getting the 5 Pro to do some milling on aluminum and wood, need to use a spindle like yours. Thanks.

would there be any value in using a welded steel frame with a concrete base and epoxy floor with drains for a wet system with the HDM?

Cool project and some neat tinkering, but I get an overpoweringly strong vibe that you resent the HDM for being what it is when all you ever wanted was a machine that has always existed and was never marketed towards hobbyists, as the Carbide machines are. Just buy the industrial grade machine already.

Seems there's something wrong with your mic (or there's something weird in your shop) There's an annoying peak around 11kHz in the audio

Do you have custom holes for your tool length probe or is there supposed to be predrilled holes for it? I have these plates and am wondering how im meant to mount the unit.

Wait, what?! There was a $500 charge from Homeland Security for a motor you ordered from china?! WTF

no way it run 12-15 THOUSAND a minute hundred ok but not thousand

That is without a doubt, CNC porn at its finest. Do you have a ballpark number for the time & money you invested in this?

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Are you going to sell the CAD files and parts list? I would like to adapt them to my CNC.