Introducing the ShopBot Desktop.

Our small-footprint CNC digital fabrication tool is built to perform like a big tool, built to be flexible, and built to last.

Whether on a job site, the production line or in your garage, The ShopBot Desktop is a real tool, ready to do real CNC work for you.

What can you do with a ShopBot Desktop? Anything you want.

In addition to impressive woodworking capabilities, the Desktop delivers engraving-level precision and the power and rigidity to machine parts from plastic, aluminum, and other materials. The Desktop is ready to perform a wide range of workbench, prototyping and production projects.

The Desktop has been designed with today and tomorrow in mind. It's a flexible platform to support your growing digital fabrication interests and needs:

• Choose from two base platforms: the Desktop Package with Router [Porter Cable 2 1/4hp Router] or the Desktop Package with Industrial Spindle [HSD 1hp spindle]
• Add WidgetWorks Unlimited Specialty Bits to your package to increase the tool's capabilities. Available directly from ShopBot, these specialty bits are designed to draw, cut or engrave, and allow you to expand the types of projects you can create with your ShopBot Desktop:
  • The Plotter Pen Bit allows your ShopBot Desktop to draw like a plotter. Draw signatures, logos or other images. Print large parts to scale before cutting expensive material.
  • The Drag Knife Bit enables your ShopBot Desktop to cut adhesive-backed sign vinyl, paper, cardboard and thin plastics (up to 1/32”). It can be used to create vehicle graphics, professional-quality signs, banners, magnets or parts from thin plastics.
  • The Diamond Drag Engraving Bit allows your ShopBot Desktop to engrave plastic, metal, glass and stone. Engrave signatures, logos or artwork. Create custom brass name tags for trophies/plaques or permanently engrave serial numbers and ID.
    
• You can also add ShopBot's 3D digitizing probe on your ShopBot Desktop to make a copy of an object in 3D. The 3D probe attaches in place of your router bit in the router collet. Place the object you want to copy on the ShopBot table and run the Copy Machine tool in the ShopBot Control Software. You can duplicate an existing 3D shape or a piece of decorative trim or molding. Very useful for luthiers, furniture makers and restoration work.
• Now Available: a Rotary Indexing Head will also be available for the ShopBot Desktop. The Rotary Indexing Head is similar to a lathe in that it allows you to horizontally rotate a part being cut or machined by the router or spindle on your ShopBot -- so you can carve anything you want in the round. Create wonderful gift items such as personalized pens, pencils and other gifts for the Holidays!
• Coming soon: we'll have add-ons such as a Laser Cutter and 3D Printing (plasma extrusion) tools -- all of which will make your investment in the ShopBot Desktop even more valuable.
  

When it comes to quality, the difference is in the details.

Like all of our tools, each ShopBot Desktop is built here in the U.S. in our Durham, North Carolina headquarters. We use the highest quality parts so that you can count on the tool to perform for you for years to come:

• The ShopBot Desktop has a welded aluminum frame and steel rails, giving this tool the heft and rigidity to do real projects. Others may use plastic parts in their smaller tools — ShopBot does not. We don't cut corners!
• The ShopBot Desktop uses the same control and software as our full size tools. It runs ShopBot software and ships with the PartWorks design software, so it’s fully compatible with other ShopBots and all of our ShopBot resources such as training, projects, and forums.
• If you're new to digital fabrication, you'll find that the ShopBot Desktop has resources to help you. The Desktop's quick set-up, starter projects, and new ShopBotEASY interface will help you get to work on day one.
• Customer support is available 7 days a week, including evenings, from our Durham headquarters. If you're just starting on the CNC learning curve or you've been "fabbing" for years, we have a knowledgeable, friendly support team that's ready to help.
  As one of our long-time ShopBotters has told us, "On a scale of 1 - 10, ShopBot gets a 30 for customer support."