Sienci Labs
Unit 2 - 372 King St N N2J2Z3 Waterloo, ON, Canada

It's just a small little touch but it's the small things that matter right? New graphics on our LongMill cartons! We just wanted to make sure all your neighbors will know you got a new CNC machine when it gets on your front door.

As of today, August 10th at noon, we're excited to announce the launch of our new Magnetic Dust Shoe for our LongMill Benchtop CNC! This shoe design is fully backwards compatible with all LongMill designs - only requiring one (V2) or two (V1) holes to be drilled into your X-gantry. To celebrate this launch we'll be offering this magnetic shoe on our store at the cost of our old shoe for the next week as well as all pending orders will be auto-upgraded so that our new communit...y members can get the most out of their LongMills: https://sienci.com/product/longmill-magnetic-dust-shoe/ In this launch video, see what sorts of advantages this new design brings: Z-axis independence means you can set and forget your shoe height and know that it’ll maintain a good ‘seal’ with your material Maintain a clear view of the cutting action with the new cutting window that’s placed within the bristles Easily detach the magnetic shoe for quick tool changes or probing stock material Tapered hose port fits multiple standard hose sizes for easy hookup to your own dust collection system (either directly or via commonly available hose adapters) If you'd like to learn more about dust shoes and why we chose a design like this, check out our resources page on dust shoes: https://sienci.com/dmx-longmill/dust-shoes/

We're loving our customers' creations with the LongMill! Making and crafting the summer away Projects by: @aaronscnc, Shaun Hogan, @hannahsayshelloca, Raw Woodworking and Bear Maked

We love open-source Many of the design choices behind our LongMill and Mill One CNCs come down to making these projects as replicable and well-supported as possible in a way that will continue to drive the CNC community forward through sharing and improving hobby CNC technology. John is one of our LongMill machine owners and his passion for open-source CNCing really shines through in his LWN article explaining how he's tailored his CNC process to be open-source from start ...to finish, a very informative read! Open-source development is really key in all aspects of the CNC community - from hardware to software - so that these manufacturing technologies can remain accessible to everyone. The goal is for: - Users to modify and improve their machines to fit their needs - Machine owners to share their designs with the community to help others that have similar needs - Makers to use our design ideas and design philosophy to create other types of machines, such as laser cutters, plasma cutters, and 3D printers - Us to gain inspiration from the community to help us guide our development of current and future products and features Have a good weekend everyone -Chris

How you define a parts 'strength' can vary depending on its application. Is it hardness? Yield strength? Tensile strength? Creep Resistance? For the plastic parts on our CNC machines, we aim to first ensure they are used sparingly and where they do exist we design them to be bulky and well-tuned, especially if it's a more structural component. This includes designing the parts to be printed in a certain orientation to ensure higher strength, even with our already well-tuned l...ayer adhesion performance. You can find records that the bending modulus of printed PLA is higher than of printed ABS, PETG, or Nylon which comes from its increased stiffness. This can also be seen in hook tests, whether in an XY or Z orientation. As I mention in the video, this is important for our parts because a more brittle material is less likely to creep and deform over time which would affect the performance of the machine. It also ensures that the parts are reliably 'strong' over the long-term, especially when combined with our tuned layer adhesion settings. You can see more experimentation with 3D printable materials from Stefan at CNC Kitchen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycGDR752fT0 Although we take all of the considerations we can when making our printed plastic parts, it is still possible to improve performance by either going the route of injection moulding with fiber reinforcement or by replacing them with metal parts. At the end of the day, we're able to offer the LongMill at its great price because we're able to migrate all the complexities of the machine down to its printed parts. By making these parts in-house with a more affordable manufacturing method it gives us the flexibility we need to continue improving the design of the LongMill while staying within the batch sizes we work with. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask us below! Previous shop tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLC71rjEqJQ General print settings: https://sienci.com//3d-printing-settings-for-longmill-par/ Our LongMill Benchtop CNC: https://sienci.com/product/longmill/