So the desktop 5 axis CNC space went from crickets to a crowd real fast. Maybe four companies are running crowdfunding campaigns right now, all chasing the same niche. Been watching this for a while, figured I'd share my thought process.

Full disclosure, I actually backed the xhorse wm100 early on. Back then there weren't as many options. But months turned into more months, every update was some version of soon, and eventually my confidence just wore down. When more players showed up, I went back to the drawing board.

Some YouTuber's video popped up covering a desktop 5 axis CNC company, infimaker apparently. I hadn't heard of them before that. The guy actually visited the facility in person and showed the real machine running, which got me curious enough to look into the company myself. I ended up digging around, and a few things stood out to me.

The structure is what got me first. The spindle is mounted straight down instead of off to the side like a lot of these machines do. Apparently, that keeps gravity and the cutting force working together instead of pulling against each other. Less chatter, I guess. The base is one single cast piece too, not bolted plates. It feels like it'd hold up better under load. I didn't dig too deep into the engineering specifics, just went off what made sense to me.

The ATC is another thing that stood out. They're claiming five tool stations plus one for the probe, all switching automatically. I used to only see this on bigger machines from what I know. Most machines in this class still make you probe manually even with automated tool changes. If it actually works as advertised, that's a real time saver for a one person shop that can't babysit the machine all day. I'll believe it when I see it running consistently, though.

But the software is what got me most. I watched their infistudio demo, and it genuinely looked easier to use than I expected. I don't know exactly how it's doing the math behind the scenes, but it seemed like it actually looks at your part first, stock size, model shape, and what angles you'd need to hit, then works out a path from there instead of just throwing generic toolpaths at it. For anything complex, you'd still want to eyeball the orientation before running it, but everything's adjustable before you hit run, so you're always the one making the final call. You're also not locked to their software either. It'll take G code from fusion if that's what you're already using. My CAM skills are nothing to write home about, so that head start is a big deal.

That said, I'm not wearing rose colored glasses here. It's a brand new company. Long term support, parts availability, firmware updates, all of that is still an open question. I'll be watching how things go once units actually start landing in people's hands.

Anyone else looking at this space or already backed something? Would love to hear how other people are weighing their options.

Problem solved!

Any ideas how to recover it safely? I would rather not have it dropped from that position.

The machine is stuck in the tool change loop.

Does anyone happen to have the OEMCY1/2/3 and Blum touch off and calibration files? DMG doesn’t have the files due to the age of machine. Company that owned it before but the wrong backup.

Do you all only use the provided Renishaw macros?

My shop is new to probing and we want to use it for a robotic arm soon. We want to probe angles on a 5x mill table to square up the part and stuff like that. I don't think it would be that hard for me to make some custom macros that do some trig to set C offsets. Also we want to make some custom inspection macros for parts as well.

What have you all done?

What is the industry standard in this regard?

Follow-up to my earlier post about the parametric wall designer. A few people

asked how the AI part actually works day to day, so here's the workflow with

screenshots.

**Step 1 — describe it.** Click AI Design, type *"waves at the bottom forming a

bench you can sit on"*. It sets the dimensions, wood colour, relief layers, slat

spacing — and shows you exactly which parameters it touched, as chips (2400 ×

2000 mm, 120 mm depth, oak swatch, wave pattern). Nothing hidden.

**Step 2 — talk to it.** There's a robot button at the bottom right. You say

*"make the relief much deeper"* and it changes ONE thing: depth went 120 → 200

mm. The pattern, spacing, colour, everything else stays identical — see the

side-view before/after. One click undoes it.

As far as I know this is the first parametric wall generator with

conversational editing — happy to be corrected if someone knows another.

The part that matters for this sub: **the LLM never writes G-code.** It only

outputs bounded parameters (a wall can't be 40 m wide, a slat can't be narrower

than your bit). The deterministic engine — radius compensation, tabs, nesting —

generates the actual toolpaths, same as before. And it refuses figurative

requests honestly: ask for a skull and it tells you to use a grayscale

heightmap instead of faking it.

Free to design in the browser; the AI gives one free generation, then it's in

the paid plan ($4.90/mo) — saying it up front. Dev here, ask me anything.

https://btporganizer.tech

Had to cut this one open today.

Nothing was wrong with it. Everything checked out.

Still feels a little strange cutting up a finished part that was ready to go ..

Just one of those things you have to do sometimes.

Please guess this is what machine, now have 8 cnc machine but the job suddenly drop down how u all find a new customer I at Malaysia 💔