We’re excited to officially launch the Shapeoko HDM V3 the latest version of the HDM. This machine is the result of years of testing, rebuilding, and obsessing over every last detail. It’s built to cut wood, aluminum, and brass with speed and precision—and run all day without breaking a sweat.
Version 3.0 builds on everything people love about the HDM, with meaningful upgrades to performance, reliability, and usability.
Built in the USA, from the Ground Up
All-Aluminum Hybrid Table
V3 now ships with a solid aluminum Hybrid Table for serious rigidity and rock-solid workholding. We’ve included M6 threaded holes and front-facing vertical clamping—so whether you’re machining edges or building complex setups, it’s ready.
Heavy-Duty Frame
Every structural part is custom-designed for the HDM—from our massive X-axis extrusion to the billet-machined Y-axis. All machined in-house. All built to last.
Motion System: Overbuilt (on Purpose)
We’ve packed industrial-grade motion hardware into every HDM:
HG15 Linear Rails and Carriages on all axes for smooth, precise motion
16mm Ball Screws, built to tight tolerances for low backlash and repeatability
Dual Angular Contact Bearings to lock down each screw
Custom Ball Screw Wipers (on X and Y) to keep things clean
All mounted directly to machined aluminum—no flexy T-slots or shortcuts
80mm Water-Cooled Spindle
At the center of it all is a high-torque, 4-pole water-cooled spindle with a wide 8,000–24,000 RPM range:
Choose from 1.5kW (110V) or 2.2kW (220V) options
ER-20 collet holds up to 1/2” (13mm) tools
Spindle speed is fully G-code controlled—no knobs, no guesswork
Comes with a CW-3000 chiller to keep things cool and quiet
Carbide Warthog Electronics
HDM V3 features our all-new Carbide Warthog electronics, designed in-house for improved reliability, signal integrity, and ease of use. It’s the most refined control system we’ve ever shipped.
Whether you’re cutting aluminum, running a jobshop or educating the next generation of operators, the HDM V3 is ready for it.
All-new Carbide Warthog electronics?
Is this still a 328 processor grbl system? or have you actually taken a step into the twenty-first century with something less limited?
Any thoughts on making the aluminum table available for v2 owners - I assume the slats would be a bit longer. Will the e-stop button plug/play into a v2? If so, will it be available?
We’ll have to check and see how much of the solid extrusion we have right now. (Making it a question of whether or not we can do it now, or if we need to reorder first)
If other HDM users want to chime in if they’d be interested, that will help.
I was really hopeful you would add a Z axis brake and possibly closed loop, even taller slightly thicker Z axis with more clearance and travel, Ball nut and slider block oiling ports that are easy to access without unbolting the ball nuts or slider blocks, active 3d touch probing, and swap the Y axis rails and screws to being on the outside vs the top.
Vacuuming the chips out of the channel and ball screw pass through hole front and rear is not pleasant. I have to use a coat hanger bent into a pick to dig out the chips out from what I call the ballnut cave. I don’t want to use compressed air and risk blowing debris back into the ballnut.
The bigger cross beams along with the front over reach, front mounting holes, and extra travel is a nice change.
If you shipped with the motors off you could add even more travel. Build it, calibrate it, then pop the motors off with the couplers still attached and ship. Then the user is only 12 bolts and a few power / data cables away from running with even more travel.
Did you come up with a new better ballscrew wiper than what came on the v1?
Can we get pics with the chip guards off as well please.
I get where you’re coming from—closed-loop steppers can be a solid upgrade in some setups. But they don’t always deliver meaningful gains in accuracy or reliability, especially on a machine that’s already highly rigid and properly dialled in.
With the HDM upgrade, we focused on improvements that matter in real-world use: increased rigidity and squareness, better thermal stability, more power, and upgraded electronics. These translate directly into better cut quality, repeatability, and overall performance.
Closed-loop systems often sound great on paper, but in practice, they rarely improve accuracy—and the correction they offer can be slower and limited compared to a well-tuned open-loop system. For our machines and our customers, this direction made more sense.
