Shaper Origin and the Shaper Plate

I love the Shaper Origin Handheld CNC. Shawn's going to show us some new stuff that's cooking here, which is? Nice. So today we announced two new products, one being a hardware accessory for Origin that makes it easy to quickly place. No more sticking domino tape down. No more sticking tape, just place this down. It's got a rubber bottom so it doesn't move. There's a visual alignment feature so you can quickly align it to where you like, as well as a fence that allows you to reference the edges of materials for hardware installs and other types of things that would require you to be perfectly aligned with the edge. So that's the first product. And this kind of thing, like working on a slab to cutting a bow tie or something. Totally. Perfect application for this. If you want to cut a quick bow tie in this crack here, we can just bring it over here, align it roughly how I want it, remove this, and now I'm set. I'm ready to cut. The file will already be placed in this window and you'll be ready to go. All right. So then the other thing, sorry, I interrupted you. All good. So the other thing is called Shaper Studio. This is essentially a simplified design tool for crafts people. So you can use your iPad, your phone, your computer, whatever device you like most, or wherever you are, you can create real simple files for Origin and Plate. So let me show you how it works. Okay, super easy. We just go to studio.shapertools.com. We can quickly do all types of things like make shapes. So I can make a couple circles. I can duplicate those circles. I can make other shapes. I can make texts. So we can type in George G-E-O-R-G-E We can move that around. We can align it. You can see it snapping to all the shapes, so we want perfect alignment with a side there. So what I like about this is I know from teaching CNC it's difficult for people to overcome the fear factor of I've got to write G code. I've got to learn how to do all this design work. But you're doing everything with your finger here. Yes. And it's, what you just did in like seven seconds, dirt simple and leading to being able to cut. Yeah, it's really all about making it easy for everybody because we know not everyone is well versed in computers and technology and just getting the files ready. So we're trying to make it really simple with Studio. So one of the cool things that's really awesome now is with Studio, you can import SVG files and DXFs into this program and do work on those. So let's move this down out of the way for now. We're going to use that in a minute. But even for simple things like this, how do you pick what you want here? So I do the Shapeshifter tool. I can select any of these elements and build off top of them. So I can take those elements and build this shape. So you can do a lot of complex things really simply with just taking shapes and building or taking away from it. Now in this case, we're going to keep it real simple. We're just going to Let's put your last name in this. So we'll edit the text here and This is a good test. Yeah, it is. V-O-N-D-R-I-S-K-A. Perfect. Enter, so now we have this file, a really simple file. So even stuff like getting text into a shape is really difficult. Something Origin does really well. Something that Studio's gonna really help out with. So here we have this. We'll quickly take out We're going to quickly look at the other fonts. So now that Studio is released, there's a bunch of extra fonts. So here you can pick whatever type of font you want. You know, you can pick a fancier font. You can pick a softer font, Really whatever you want is possible. We have a lot more fonts now even something as simple is like a really simple monospace font. Just all options here now in Studio. So let's pick one that you like, and we'll cut it out. So why don't you take a peek here, George, and pick one. Okay. I'm kind of digging that. I kind of dig that, too, and I think it's going to look really cool when we use the Shapeshifter function. So I just select this, tell it I want to use Shapeshifter, and if I say select all, it's going to select every possible shape. Now, I'm just going to go in and pick the ones I don't want. So all the ones that are like looping Os and Ds, and now when I make shape, I have this perfect shape ready to roll and it's all combined into one file. So now if I go, I can pick the size I want. So right now it's at an inch and a half. Let's just make it four inches. Just make it four inches wide. Great. And Studio has a feature called plan mode which helps you understand how Origin's going to cut this. So instead of going into workshop, finding out your digital design problems, you can find it while you're designing it. So here we can look at this. It's a preview. We're previewing the cut. We're just previewing it so we don't get to the workshop and realize we did something wrong. So if you look at this, everything's going to be cut online here, then we can quickly change that to an inside, outside, I can quickly see it this size. I'm not actually going to be able to cut all that out. I can get a smaller bit, obviously, and do that, but let's say we're going to use the eighth of an inch bit. This is what I would have. So my two options would be to make Because the open spots, the bit is not cutting. Correct, so if we zoom in here, you'll see the bit can fit there, but it can't fit through this spot. Yep. So one of the things about Studio, it's actually designing for fabrication. So it might look great in the design software, but as soon as you get it under the tool and into the real world, things aren't going to look as they appear because you're removing material, the bits have rounded edges. There's just a lot of fabrication details that a lot of the design programs don't think about because they don't need to. They're printing paper. They're doing other types of things, but with CNC, you really need to be aware of how is this going to look when I go to cut it? Before you turn the machine on. Before you turn it on, you know, so that that's basically what plan mode is. So my two options now would be I could make I could go back to this design and I could make it a little bigger. And then when I go back to plan mode, okay, cool, now we're starting to get somewhere. Now, we still have some problems here where it's not going to actually cut, but that's the idea is like you can adjust your design while you're in the design process. Okay. So in this case, instead of emptying all the space out, let's just engrave, engrave this line. So if we go back to here and we change this to an online cut, now you're going to see that it's showing me a different preview, but we're actually not going to use an eighth-inch diameter. We're going to use a engraving bit. And now you get a preview of that size. So the whole point here is that we're just going to make sure all these are set up before we go to the workshop. Now, a beautiful thing about this is we are now set up. If I go to design mode and back, you'll now see, cool, everything looks great. I'm cutting online. My bit diameter is set to what Origin's going to use, and now it's just time to cut. So typically in this process, you'd have to think, okay, how do I export this? Where do I save it? How do I get over the tool? With Studio, all that's handled. It's already in the cloud, and we just need to get Origin and put it on the tool. So we're synchronizing iPad to Origin automatically? Correct, so as long as you have internet on both, the files will already be there. Now we put Origin on Plate. We go to the import screen, and the file will be right here in the top. Click that and boom, the file's downloaded and it's ready to be placed and cut. So we'll just move it right to the zero, zero. There's already a grid set up on Plate. So now the file's placed and we're ready to cut. So all we've got to do is pull this cord up a little bit. We're going to do a quick Z touch to measure the height of the bit. Great. Okay, so now we need to figure out where this is going to go. So all we need to do is take this file, and we know the files align to this edge here. So wherever we want that to go, we just align this, remove this, and then we're ready to cut. So time to pick your spot. And then it's a little bit wonky in a couple of the slab areas. I do have some leveling feet that will make it, you know, be pretty nice. Here, let's do that real quick. I'm pretty flat here. Yeah? Okay, good. I think. Perfect, all right. So now your text is going to appear right above this line. So we hide that. So now we put Origin on top, and we're ready to go. So set our depth, and now it's just a matter of cutting. So I'm just going to quickly check we're not outside the edge. Yep, we're good. And double check your name's correct before we immortalize it. Perfect. Okay. Rock and roll. You might want to retract and just check the depth real quick just to see. Oh, yeah, it looks nice. I think I got it all. I think so, too. And, of course, the cool thing is if I didn't, all we have to do is come back here. All you've got to do is come back. It knows where it is in space. Exactly. And it would pick up whatever I forgot to do. All that. So now what's really cool, we've gone from this to this in a matter of minutes without any real technologically understanding of how it's happening, just picking some letters, picking the shapes we want and then using Origin and Plate to cut it out. The cool thing like we were talking about is this ability to overcome that fear of design and really simplify that process and go from phone or iPad straight to the Origin to do these cuts coupled with the Plate that makes it even a better scenario of taking the tool to the work. These are great developments. Yeah.