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What's a good cheap CNC machine and could I use it to cut away plasticard into shapes.

...a "cheap" CNC machine doesn't exist that I'm aware of.

 Elbows wrote:
...a "cheap" CNC machine doesn't exist that I'm aware of.

Well you can bodge together something for about 300 or so with legos and some odds and ends that will cut foam. But CnC, real CnC has come down greatly in price. A production grade 5 axis is something like 60K-100K. Which is a lot cheaper than it used to be. That's without tooling.

Light duty small work area 3 axis machines can be had in the 10-15K range, though I wouldn't do anything but wood and soft materials (no metal) in them. Not really precision machines as they have too much deflection.

 Elbows wrote:
...a "cheap" CNC machine doesn't exist that I'm aware of.

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