Right... I went on Kickstarter to back the InfiMaker K1, but I can’t seem to get the pledge to go through. The page loads fine, but the payment keeps failing.
I’m not sure what’s causing it, so I figured I’d ask here before trying again. Has anyone managed to back it today, or is anyone else having trouble at checkout?
Been following this one since it first showed up. Caught their official stream a couple days ago and it was the first time I felt like I was actually watching the machine cut instead of just looking at renders. They showed the infistudio workflow and had parts running in the background the whole time. Still taking it with a grain of salt since it was their own event, but it looked more convincing than the typical crowdfunding pitch. Kickstarter goes live today and they have another stream or two lined up over the next few days. Anyone else planning to watch or back?
Hi - very excited about the project, and I've put down a deposit. However, your FAQ guide has a lot of room for details before I commit to buying. I hope you can add these items to your FAQ:
What kind of tools are these? Can you give me the exact details of what standard your tooling uses? Where do I find a selection of tooling? If these are proprietary tools, that is a problem.
Why are steel and cast iron notably not in the list of materials you can cut? Are you limited by magnetic chaff in some way? Titanium is impressive, but I will never use it. Brass and aluminum are nice, but not what I work with regularly. I need steel cutting capability. Your demos and lists are VERY conspicuously avoiding how steel or cast iron can be machined.
Full pricing door-to-door. You quote the price for the equipment (US$5k) but that is not the full cost... or is it? I purchased a Gweike fiber laser (also on Kickstarter) and they were very good with including shipping and tariff costs in the price. Are you also including those costs?
Consumables. Are there any consumables? Filters, bearings, etc?
Pre-access to software. Software is almost half of what I'm buying. The software without the machine is meaningless, so there is no good reason that you would not provide the software for evaluation. If you somehow are worried that the software will be pirated (which should be impossible, given tight integration with the hardware) then you will have that problem as soon as you ship the first machine. I want to see what the software looks like.
Manuals. How well you document something tells me how serious you are about quality. Make the full documentation available as soon as possible, because I'm going to make buying decisions based on the documentation.
Power conditioning. Does this equipment require power conditioning? Is it designed for 60Hz or is it designed for 50Hz?
Thank you in advance.
Caught infimaker live stream last week. What caught my attention more than anything was infistudio. They showed the whole workflow from a 2D image to a 3D model, then to toolpaths, all on that touchscreen. The software also auto matched cutting parameters from what looked like a built in material database, and had a simulation view so you could see the toolpath before hitting start. It looked more like using a tablet app than traditional CAM software. Didn't seem like you had to dig through endless menus just to get a basic job running.
They also mentioned it can import STL, STEP, OBJ files and even run G code from third party CAM if you want to use Fusion or something else. That's a big deal to me because I was worried it would be a completely closed system. Having the AI assisted route for quick stuff, plus the option to bring in your own toolpaths, makes it feel a lot more fiexible.
They had the machine cutting in the background the whole time, which I was glad to see. It was their own stream, so I'm taking everything with the usual amount of skepticism. Still, it was nice to see them actually using the machine insted of just a bunch of renders and spec sheets.
Dis anyone else watc it? What did you think of the interface? It looked approachable from the demo, but I'd be interested to hear what people with more CNC experience thought.