CNC Project: Easel vs. Carbide Create vs. Fusion 360 - Which CAM Software is Best?

간편한 인터페이스와 자동/수동 모드를 제공하는 Easel의 사용 편의성은 CNC 초보자에게 이상적입니다.

### 초보자를 위한 이젤: 6분 만에 첫 번째 CNC 프로젝트 완성
* 📌 CNC 입문자를 위한 이젤(Easel) 소프트웨어 사용법과 프로젝트 제작 과정을 소개하는 영상입니다.
* 💡  Carbide Create와 Fusion 360을 사용한 이전 프로젝트와 비교하며 이젤의 장단점을 분석합니다.  **이젤**은 사용 편의성이 뛰어나지만, 복잡한 작업에는 제한적일 수 있습니다.
* ⚙️ 이젤 인터페이스 소개: 툴바, 캔버스, 3D 렌더링 기능 등을 설명하고, 재료 크기 설정 및 SVG 파일 불러오기 방법을 자세히 보여줍니다.
* 📏 SVG 파일 크기 조정 및 **툴패스 생성** 과정: 이젤에서는 자동으로 프로파일 패스가 생성되므로, 필요에 따라 수동으로 설정을 변경해야 합니다.
* 🛠️ **비트 선택 및 절삭 파라미터 설정**: 이젤은 자동 및 수동 모드를 제공하며, 수동 모드에서는 공급 속도, 깊이 등을 직접 입력할 수 있습니다.  "자동 모드는 초보자에게 적합하다"고 강조합니다.
* 🔄  **다중 도구 경로 생성**:  복잡한 디자인을 위해서는 별도의 시트를 생성하여 각 도구 경로를 설정해야 하는 번거로움이 있었습니다.  "Easel의 다중 시트 기능은 Carbide Create보다 유용하다"는 의견이 제시됩니다.
* 🖥️ Onefinity CNC 머신을 이용한 G-코드 생성 및 가공: 이젤에서 생성된 G-코드를 Onefinity에 업로드하고 가공하는 과정을 보여줍니다.  **표면 마감**에 대한 문제점이 발견되었고, 이는 비트 마모 가능성을 언급합니다.
* 🏆 세 가지 소프트웨어(Fusion 360, Carbide Create, Easel) 비교:  **초보자에게는 Easel을 추천**하며, 사용자의 숙련도에 따라 적절한 소프트웨어를 선택하는 것이 중요하다고 결론짓습니다.

Today is the last video in my CNC with Me series where I take the files included with the introduction pack to

CNC with Me, and I walk through the end-to-end process of generating toolpaths, cutting those projects out, and hopefully

proving how easy it is to get into this CNC hobby. If you are interested in the CNC with Me program, I will leave a link

down below in the description. In the interest of full disclosure, I have no affiliation with Hamilton or CNC with Me,

but I did pay my own hard-earned money to become a community member, so you can connect with me there as well as

hundreds of other CNC nerds. In my last video, I ran through the detailed process of bringing an SVG into Carbide Create,

creating the toolpaths, exporting those toolpaths to my 1finity CNC, and creating this amazing little catch-all.

Now, we had a few hiccups along the way, but in the end, we created this catch-all

without too many problems. In the first video in this series, we did the exact same thing with Fusion 360, where we

created this catch-all. I didn't have any hiccups with that particular project, but that's how things go with CNC. I will

leave links to both videos down in the description if you're interested in checking those out. Today, we are going to

wrap up the series by reproducing these projects using Inventables Easel, but applying some of the lessons that we've

learned along the way. All right, let's go ahead and jump over to the computer where I will get into Easel and we will

Here we are in Easel. It is a website; you just go to the URL easel.

inventables.com. You log in, you create a new project, and this is the screen that you will see to start off things.

We're going to do a quick walkthrough of the user interface here. So, what you have on the left-hand side is a toolbar with

a couple of different interesting things we'll get to in a minute. In the sort of center-left here, we have the

canvas, which is where you draw all of your vectors. And then on the right-hand side, by default, we do have a 3D

rendering of what you draw on the left-hand side. You can drag the viewpoint here back and forth if you

want, or you can use these little arrows right here to collapse it left or right. On the top right-hand

side, this is where you set your stock size and your bits, and we will get to that in just a minute. Then on the bottom

here, you do have the opportunity to create multiple sheets. This is an advantage over Carbide Create, in my

opinion. You can have multiple versions of your vector here with different toolpaths on it, and so that's something that

I find useful, especially when I'm doing inlays that you really can't do in Carbide Create, which is limited to a

single design. All right, so real quick, the first thing we want to do is we want to set our stock size, just like we've

done in the past. And so the default here is birch plywood. We are going to scroll down and find something. Maple is... let's

see... hard maple. Perfect, that's exactly what we want. And then we know that we want it 8 by 8, because that's what we've been

working with in the past. And then the thickness here was 21 mm, and so I'm going to type in 21 mm. This is

something that I also found interesting that Fusion does and Easel does, but Carbide Create does not do: if I type in

21 mm, it automatically converts it—uh, turns it into inches or whatever the units are that you have. So Carbide Create

didn't do that, and I found that a little frustrating, a little annoying because I had to manually compute it, but it is

what it is in this lower corner here. You can see that you can select between the front left corner or center if you

remember, Fusion has a lot more options, and Carbide Create had more than this but less than Fusion. So that's just

something to know, but you can select center if you want to do that. And really, I really only ever use front left or

center; I don't use any other position. So these two, in my opinion, are simply just fine. So I'm going to go ahead and I am

going to click up here in the toolbar, and we're going to dismiss this by clicking right there. And then the next

thing we want to do is we want to import our SVG. So I'm going to collapse this guy just like that so we have more

real estate. We're going to go under Project, import SVG. We're going to select our dog foot

SVG, as we've done before, and it's going to import it. Now you will notice that, for some reason, both Fusion 360 and

Carbide Create imported it in the proper size; Easel does not. I don't know why. I

haven't been able to figure it out. I think it might have something to do with the uh DPI that it was saved at, um, but

it's hard to say. But the good news is, this is super easy to fix. What we need

to do is go over here to where it says Shape and Size, make sure the little lock icon is locked so you maintain that

aspect ratio, and then we're going to type in eight, and we're going to—I just hit tab, or you can press enter, and it

automatically resizes it to 8 inches. Now it looks like here that it can be a little

a bit bigger than 8 inches, which is interesting because in theory our stock is 8 by 8. I guess that's because there is

a border in the SVG, so I'm going to go ahead and bump this up. Let's say 8.25

8.25 okay. Now, the other thing you can do here is you can say "Center to material." That makes it a lot easier to put things

right in the center. The next thing with Easel: what it does is it automatically assumes that you want to do a profile

path on everything that you import, which is a little annoying because we don't want to do that, but it's easy to fix. So

what I'm going to show you here is I'm going to deselect all of these. I am going to first select the outside ring.

For this first operation, we do not want to cut that outside ring; we want to cut those pockets first. So the way you have

to do this in Easel is you select "cut" here, and then you change your cut depth to zero. That is how you tell Easel that

you do not want to cut a specific vector. And you can see that is—sort of, whoops—you can see here, if you zoom in, it is

still there on the screen, but it is not highlighted, which means it's not going to be cut. So again, that's a little

annoying. I wish it was like dotted or dashed or something like that, but it is what it is. So here I'm going to go ahead

and select—uh, hit the Shift key, hold this down—and select all of these vectors so that we can create our

pocketing path. Then over here, we want to change our cut—right here where it says "cut path"—we want to click this and

say "Clear out pocket," just like that. And then we want to change our cut depth to that 15 mm that we used last time. There

you go. Now, by default here, again, it's chosen this 1/8 inch bit, which is not—not what we want, so we want to change our

Bit, so we're going to click "bit" right here, and you can see there are a couple of pre-ann options; none of them are the bit

that we want. Now, there are a lot fewer bits here than there were in Carbide Create, but I actually think this user

interface is a lot easier to use. It shows you a picture of the bit; it's not overwhelming; you don't have to select

your machine. Uh, it's just very much more straightforward. So what we're going to do is we're going to select "other." It

does allow you to use one other bit, so we're going to select that. We're going to tell it that it is 0.75 inches in diameter,

and then we are going to click this guy right here. Now, the next thing that we need to do is we need to adjust our cut

parameters, because when we created that bit—I'm going to use that in air quotes—uh, we didn't set any of those cut

parameters. So we're going to do that right here. And again, a difference between Fusion and Carbide and Easel is

Easel has two fundamental modes: it's called automatic mode, where they choose the feed and speeds for you, and then

manual mode, where you get to type in your own. So if you're just beginning and you don't know what you're doing—you

know anything about feeds or speeds—automatic mode is the way to go. It is very, very, very conservative; you will likely have

success no matter what you do, unless you do something completely inappropriate. But, uh, I'm going to go ahead and click

into manual mode because I want to use the cut settings that we used in the last project, uh, just to make sure that it is

capable of doing it. So, so what we do is we click "manual." We're going to change that feed rate to 80; we're going to

change the plunge to 40; and we use point—we end up at 0.125, if you remember in

The last, um, whoops! If you remember the last project, so, uh, there are a couple fill methods here where you have offset

and raster, and then Y-axis, which is a Pro feature, um, and you do have the ability, if you have Pro, to do a ramp, um, I do not

have Pro. Uh, you do get, um, five free Pro months if you had purchased an X-Carve

at one point in the past, or if you have an X-Carve, uh, so I do have that option

because I did have an X-Carve at one point, but we won't do that here because I want to compare and contrast to the

same thing that we did in, uh, Carbide Create. But you can see in Easel, even though you can ramp, you do not have very

many options for ramping in terms of the, uh, setup. You have a 5° and a 20°, so

for something like this, I would probably do either one of these; should be fine. I generally ramp at 20°

unless I'm doing something special, um, or around 8°. So 5° in this case, so

all right, so we have our cut settings for our dog feet. That is good. Now, how do we add that next vector? This is where

things get just a little bit complicated in Easel. I'm going to click this plus thing here to use an additional bit, so

you click the plus, it's going to open that menu again, and I'm going to dismiss—I'm going to dismiss that window, so get

the same window that pops up again. You can see the same bit selection. What you don't see here, for some very odd reason,

is a 1/4 inch flat end mill. You only see 8th and 16th. That is super weird to me

because a 1/4 inch end mill is a go-to end mill for everything, so I am going to

Click "other" again, and I'm going to type in 025, just like that. Then, I'm going to select this. We're going to

go to cut settings. Now you can see there are two panes in the cut settings window: one for what they call a

roughing path and one for the detailed path. So typically, this would be used for cutting with the same bit, where you want

to do an aggressive cut with your roughing and then a more refined or a more nuanced cut with your detailed. In

this case, we're just going to use two entirely different bits. I'm going to select "manual" here. I'm going to select

uh, 80 again, 40, and then .125 again. And there you go. Now that we have that

second bit set, I want to go ahead and select it. Make sure everything's fine; it looks good. I am going to select that

outside canvas that we did right here. And now, with that 1/4-inch bit set, I want to say

cut the outside shape path, so we don't make the mistake that we made with Carbide Create. Outside shape path, just

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CNC with Me 시리즈 마무리 및 Inventables Easel 소개

CNC with Me 시리즈의 마지막 영상으로, 이전 영상에서 사용했던 파일들을 이용하여 프로젝트를 진행한다.

툴패스 생성, 프로젝트 절삭 과정을 보여주며 CNC 입문의 용이성을 강조한다.

CNC with Me 프로그램에 대한 링크를 설명란에 제공한다.

Hamilton이나 CNC with Me와의 제휴는 없으며, 직접 프로그램에 가입했다고 밝힌다.

이전 영상에서는 Carbide Create를 사용하여 프로젝트를 진행했음을 언급한다.

Inventables Easel 사용법 및 인터페이스 설명

Easel 웹사이트 접속 및 새로운 프로젝트 생성 방법을 설명한다.

왼쪽 툴바, 중앙의 캔버스, 오른쪽의 3D 렌더링 영역 등 인터페이스를 소개한다.

다중 시트 생성 기능을 Carbide Create와 비교하며 장점을 설명한다.

재료 크기 설정 및 단위 변환 기능을 다른 프로그램과 비교한다.

SVG 파일 임포트 및 크기 조정 방법을 설명한다.

Easel을 이용한 도그 풋 프로젝트 진행 및 툴패스 설정

Easel의 자동 및 수동 절삭 모드를 설명하고 수동 모드를 선택한다.

절삭 깊이를 0으로 설정하여 특정 벡터를 절삭하지 않는 방법을 설명한다.

포켓팅 패스 생성 및 비트 변경 방법을 설명한다.

절삭 매개변수 조정 및 자동/수동 모드 선택 방법을 설명한다.

추가 비트 사용 및 외부 윤곽선 절삭 방법을 설명한다.

G-코드 생성 및 Onefinity CNC 머신으로 전송

툴패스 시뮬레이션 및 G-코드 다운로드 방법을 설명한다.

프로젝트 파일 재임포트 기능의 부재를 지적한다.

Onefinity 머신으로 G-코드 업로드 및 절삭 과정을 설명한다.

프로젝트 이름 변경 및 자동 저장 기능을 설명한다.

Onefinity 컨트롤러에서 절삭 작업을 시작한다.

절삭 과정 중 발생한 문제 해결 및 최종 결과

렌더링 결과 확인 및 툴패스 수정을 위한 추가 시트 생성 과정을 설명한다.

두 개의 별도 도면을 생성하여 포켓 작업과 윤곽선 작업을 분리한다.

수정된 G-코드를 Onefinity 머신에 업로드하고 절삭 작업을 재시작한다.

Easel을 사용한 절삭 결과의 표면 마감 상태가 좋지 않음을 지적한다.

최종 결과물을 보여주고 표면 마감 문제와 그 원인에 대해 설명한다.

세 가지 프로그램(Fusion 360, Carbide Create, Easel) 비교 및 결론

세 가지 프로그램의 사용 편의성을 비교한다.

CNC 입문자에게 Easel을 추천하고, 사용자의 기술 수준에 맞는 소프트웨어 선택을 강조한다.

무료 소프트웨어 사용을 권장하는 이유를 설명한다.

Easel 사용 중 발생한 문제점과 개선점에 대한 의견을 제시한다.

Easel과 Carbide Create 비교 영상에 대한 링크를 제공한다.