CNC Woodworker – The Complete Online CNC Router Course
About Course
About The CNC Course
An online CNC router course that covers everything you will need to know in order to master wood working utilising 3 axis CNC routers. Whether you are using an entry level desktop machine at home or a top end industrial production CNC router, this course aims to help you to get the best out of your machine. Improve efficiency, skip the trial and error stages and get straight to producing quality parts right off your machine. Even if you don’t yet have a machine, learning the fundamentals behind the process ahead of time will be a highly valuable exercise.
We will work through everything you might need from software and design of basic parts right through to machining complex multi sided components. Focus on two different software packages; Autodesk Fusion and Vectric V-Carve. We cover everything from simple 2D operations right through to more complex 2 and 3 sided, 3D machining processes by the end of the course.
Learn what tools to use and how to best setup your machine for maximum tool life and great part finishing, minimising post machining clean up. Finish up the course with a constantly evolving module; a range of my favourite CNC router projects. Download the project files and follow along with the project on your own machine. You’ll get lifetime access to all of this, work through the course as many times as you like at your own pace. The clear video tutorial lessons are accessible from any device with an internet connection.
CNC Router Course Final Projects Include
Machining the mountain – A multi tool carving operation in which we carve Mount Everest from a solid timber block.
Classic wooden steering wheel – Download my full parametrically designed steering wheel model, size it to whatever you would like and make your own version.
Land Rover dashboard – Download my model that takes us from a 3D scan to a carved wooden dashboard utilising complex three sided carving operations.
Individual Student Enrolment
The enrolment price for the CNC router course is per person, lifetime access means that students can refer back to the course at any time. Work through the material again and refresh their knowledge. The recommended pace is one module a day but students are free to study at their own rate, alongside a project or as and when they have the time.
Business or College Enrolment
CNC woodworker is an ideal tool for joinery shops, carpenters and colleges to add to their existing training programs. Enrolling staff on this CNC router course will greatly speed up the process at which apprentices or machine operators and designers can get up and running with a solid knowledge base of the process. By putting new staff members or apprentices through the program, employers can ensure that they learn the core fundamentals of the process before getting to the shop floor. This reduces the time that experienced staff need to spend teaching the basics in the workshop.
Course Content
MODULE 1 – Introduction and Resources
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MODULE 1 LESSON 1: What we will aim to achieve on this course
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MODULE 1 LESSON 2: An introduction to machine types
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MODULE 1 LESSON 3: An introduction to our software
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CNC wood worker handbook
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Book a 1 to 1 training session
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Feed and speed calculator
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V carving cut depth calculator
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Vacuum holding calculator
MODULE 2 – Tools and Fixtures
MODULE 3 – Fusion
MODULE 4 – VCarve
MODULE 5 – On the Machine
MODULE 6 – Projects
COURSE END
Student Ratings & Reviews
The Speeds and feeds calculator is also invaluable so much better than random guessing and overheating bits. After Twenty years of trial and error I can say this excellent instructional course is teaching me more than I could have hoped for.
I would recommend this course for anyone that is wanting to get into CNC Woodworking 100%!
This course puts decades worth of knowledge at your fingertips, and could probably be sold for 10x the price.
Whether you're a beginner, or have a prior background in CNC machines, the amount of information wrapped up into a clean and well thought out package is amazing.
I got back up to speed on running a CNC machine in what seemed like a blink of an eye, because Dan is a great teacher, and his passion for his work shows.
This course saved me DAYS of frustration, so if you're on the fence about buying, just do it!
-Mark from Money Pit Boating
I think this course is perfect for anyone starting with cnc, regardless if its wood/soft metal. You learn the basic needed to understand fundamentals of working with cnc.
This course was really helpful in extending my knowledge of Fusion 360, particularly the value and use of its parametric capabilities. (As I write my son is printing a set of fully parametric Tomato Support System brackets for me!) I've looked at zillions of short Youtube expositions of specific topics. For the most part these are poorly produced and ill-considered. The scripting, editing and production of Dan's course is excellent (Terrance's is too.) and one rapidly becomes aware that he really knows his stuff!
I learned a lot about machining as well, and this is the only place I've come across that has a really clear introduction to the various type of bits and their uses.
Highly recommended.
For the price of the course it is worth every cent spent! you learn at your own pace and can go back to revisit anything.
Highly recommend it, NOW take the course.
Well done DAN! Thanks for putting in the hours to create the course.
So, yes I can highly recommend it!👍🏼
It is very thorough and so well explained. It doesn't just cover the "on the machine" part but goes in depth with all the theoretical understanding you need as well as a pretty complete coverage of the software side with hands on projects to play with.
It will become my go-to handbook for CNC projects (not only woodworking related).