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Welcome Edward to the Team

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UPDATE: Bob at CNCCookbook.com has posted more information about The Big News at [CNC Cookbook](https://blog.cnccookbook.com/2014/12/09/breaking-news-shapeoko-carbide-3d-join-forces/) We can finally...

How to buy a Haas

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For those who have been following our progress over the past few months, it’s clear that we’ve been limited by the machine shops we rely on. We should probably just declare now that we’re control...

Nomad in Action #1

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We've gotten more Youtube videos featuring the Nomad than we ever expected. We love watching them to find out what users are doing with their machines but this one blew us away. Craig had a...

Our Future with GRBL (and a new product)

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We found GRBL, the motion control software that we use, a little over a year ago after other solutions failed to deliver the performance and reliability we needed.  Since then, we've used it for both...

July 2015 Update

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It's been a few months since our last update so we figured it was about time to let everyone here know what we're spending our days doing. Nomad Kickstarter shipments are done!!! The final...

Sept 2015 Update

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Today's a big day at Carbide 3D- we finally get to announce some of the things that we've been working on for the past few months. Shapeoko is (almost) in stock After spending most of the year...

Nomad Wins "Best Desktop CNC"

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Make: magazine, leader of the Maker Movement and producer of the popular Maker Faire events, just released their "Ultimate Guide to Desktop Fabrication 2016." Make: reviewed a wide variety...

2015 Wrapup

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2015 was a big year for everyone here at Carbide 3D so we wanted to take a little time to fill everyone in on what’s been going on. Standing behind our product We shipped A LOT of machines this year...

Carbide Create - Now with V-Carving

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2016 is off to a great start here at Carbide3D In December, we ran a poll asking all of you for the number one feature you wanted to see in Carbide Create. The results were impressive, with lots of...

The Disconnect Problem

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We've been working with some of our customers to fix a problem on the Shapeoko 3 that has quickly gained a mythology that far surpasses its reality. We've tried to answer questions when they pop up in...

Summer Software Update

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We’ve got a couple of software changes to announce. First, MeshCAM, which is included with the Nomad, is about to get an upgrade. Early betas of MeshCAM 7 have been passed around the company and it’s...

Big Carbide Create Update

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For those who haven’t heard of it, the Cameo Silhouette is a computer controlled paper and vinyl cutter that seems to be mainly for the craft/scrapbooking market. This is not something I would expect...

New Warranties

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When we started shipping Nomads, we told customers that we had a 90 day warranty because that seemed to be industry standard for a machine like ours. For the Shapeoko, we never really stated that we...

Carbide Motion 361

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We just uploaded Carbide Motion 361 with the following changes: Ensure spindle is off before tool probing Ensure spindle is off before too change (Weird edge case where this could have happened...

Feed and Speeds Part 1

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This is a guest post by Bob Warfield, founder of the popular CNCCookbook blog and author of G-Wizard, the leading feeds and speeds calculator. In this multi-part series of guest posts, I want to walk...

Carbide Motion 362

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We just uploaded Carbide Motion Build 362. It includes a handful of great updates, and shows where we're going next. Support for G10 Probing on the Shapeoko has become a popular thing in our forum...

Carbide Motion 363

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We just uploaded a new Carbide Motion, build 363. This build fixes the weird jogging that could occur in 362 after setting the zero position. Thanks to everyone who reported the problem.

Carbide Motion 364 and Probing

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We just uploaded a new build of Carbide Motion, 364. It includes: G10 is enabled for running programs, not just the MDI Fixes for a couple of bugs in incremental movement (G91) We can also share a...

Feed and Speeds Part 2

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This is a guest post by Bob Warfield, founder of the popular CNCCookbook blog and author of G-Wizard, the leading feeds and speeds calculator. In this second part of the multi-part series of guest...

GRBL 1.1 Update

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As many of you know, our machines are based on the fantastic GRBL machine controller, which is open source and available for everyone to play with and review. For the past couple of years, we’ve...
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