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A Hot Wire CNC Foam Cutter - Core77

At design school we used a hot wire to cut blue foam. Since then I've seen a lot of different ways to cut foam, but I'd never seen this one before. It appears to be a dual-wire CNC rig:

If any of you can read the characters and/or know the provenance of this machine, please let us know in the comments! Oscillating Knife Foam Cutter

A Hot Wire CNC Foam Cutter - Core77

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShfwuGndZulsKUcVGdbe0i understand this is the channel of a representative of the company that created this machine. Don't take my word for got it though

There are lots of differently-designed CNC hot wire machines. As a servo/motion control engineer I've had the chance to work on several. Check out Hotwire Direct (www.hotwiredirect.com) for some of these machines built especially for architectural uses.

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A Hot Wire CNC Foam Cutter - Core77

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