FABtotum Personal Fabricator:
all in one open source 3D printer, CNC machine and laser engraver

Make more. The FABtotum allows anyone to explore the endless possibilities of a multipurpose fabrication device.

Multipurpose Desktop Personal Fabrication

The FABtotum 3D Printer is not just a 3D Printer but a multipurpose tool, a modular 3D Printing, CNC Milling and laser platform. For this reason we don’t like to call it 3D Printer but Desktop Personal Fabricator.

FABtotum Personal Fabricator is therefore the first self-handling device, 100% Made in Italy, elegant designed, thought for all level of professional uses.

How did we do that?

FABtotum Personal Fabricator consists of a main strcuture (FABtotum PRO) that can be bought and use with one or more modules (Head).

Today are available 5 Heads: 2 Heads for additive manufacturing (Printing Head e Printing Head PRO), 1 for subtractive manufacturing (Milling Head) and 2 for laser engraving and cutting (Laser Head e Laser Head PRO), and other heads are coming…

Designed for every workspace

FABtotum Personal Fabricator concentrates all his components into a small 36,6cm cube (filament spool included).That means it does not use all your precious desk space!

Furthermore, the FABtotum 3D Printer, unlike some 3D Printers, is a pleasant design element, able to fit perfectly in your office, studio, lab or home. Choose your favourite color: black, white or red?

If you want to experiment…

The FABtotum modular system allows all users to develop, test and sell freely their heads!

If this idea intrigues you, you can require the Head Development Kit and make whatever you like: a more powerful motor, a small laser diode module for paper cutting, a pick and place clamp or a syringe for scientific applications (or to make pastry!)

Bring out the best of your FABtotum! It’s up to you!

Any project, any idea, needs a FABtotum PRO to come to life.

Find out more:

FABtotum PRO

FABtotum Personal Fabricator for 3D Printing

Using the Printing Head or the Printing Head PRO you’ll be able to 3D print and experiment new shapes and designs, saving time and money of prototyping.
Did you know that the 3D Printing is perfect for rapid prototyping? That’s because the 3D Printing allows to make quickly high quality prototypes without need of the outsourcing.

FABtotum Personal Fabricator has a very high printing volume, despite being a desktop 3D Printer (the FABtotum is only a 360x360x360 mm cube!). It has a ~25% Print-to-Printer Size ratio – one of the highest ever.

Our motion bearings and the new belt driving mechanism allow smooth and fast prints with all FABtotum filaments (PLA, PLA HT PRO, ABS, Nylon, to name but a few).
The fully automatic auto bed leveling and the assisted bed leveling makes aligning the print surface a quick and painless process.

Finally, taking out printed objects from the FABtotum is really easy thanks to the removable printing bed.
The Hybrid Bed guarantees a smooth printing and great adhesion with short heating times. The glass platform is easy to clean and more scratch resistant than common polymer-based surfaces seen in other 3D printers.
Our aim is guarantee the best usability, making sure quality of the prints is not affected. Il nostro obiettivo è garantire la massima utilizzabilità senza compromettere la qualità di stampa.

Tour Eiffel printed with FABtotum Printing Head PRO

Dinosaur printed with FABtotum Printing Head Lite

Wheels printed with FABtotum Printing Head PRO

FABtotum Personal Fabricator for CNC milling and subtractive manufacturing

Cogwheel made with FABtotum Milling Head

Sometimes 3D printing is not enough!

Thanks to a sturdy structure and unconventional technical solutions, the FABtotum Personal Fabricator can turn into a subtractive machine without compromising 3D printing volumes or printing speeds.

Switching to subtractive mode is easy: just install the proper subtractive Milling Head and tilt the Hybrid Bed to expose the milling plane with the built-in fixtures to secure your workpiece.

Some examples of what a FABtotum can do:

3D milling on light materials (balsa, foam, light wood).
PCB milling: make your own circuit boards!
Engraving.
2.5 D Profiling (cutting) on light materials (balsa, foam, light wood).
CNC Pre-Drilling.

Learn more about CNC and Rapid Prototyping materials that you can use with FABtotum Personal Fabricator.

FABtotum Personal Fabricator for laser engraving and cutting

Laser Head and Laser Head PRO are the last accessories of the FABtotum Heads Line that can make the FABtotum even more multipurpose and multifunctional.

They can be easily installed on the carriage, just like the other Heads, and they’ll let you cut paper and cardboard or engrave woods and coated aluminum. You are also able to etch a circuit board and personalize objects with the laser marking.

Finally, thanks to CAM Toolbox, app developed by the FABteam, it will be possibile to turn any pictures (yes, a simple JPEG will do) in a GCODE that the FABtotum will easily manage.

Make your prototypes, your branded gadgets and customize your objects with the Laser Heads.

Mini FABtotum cut with FABtotum Laser Head

Are you still thinking about it?

Find out all FABtotum Personal Fabricator Features

All in one 3D printer and desktop mill: your personal CNC machine

1. High performances for top quality results

The FABtotum Personal Fabricator has been developed with all the necessary add-ons thar a good 3d print can need, one of them is the heated printing bed.
The Hybrid Bed, already on board on the FABtotum PRO, can heat up to 100°C, so that filaments can better stay firm and temperatures are better handled. The high-performance borosilicate glass is strictly flat and it can guarantee that resolution of any print is respected.
The Hybrid Bed has also a double side with pre-set holes to fasten the starting material where milling task will run. This metal surface will also prevent glass one from scrathes or any other damage.

The FABtotum also comes with an onboard memory to keep both software and all the files printed. The SD memory can store up to 8GB: plenty of space for GCODES! Finally, with the RaspberryPI 3, everything software-side runs smoothly.

Time is money, that’s why we made the FABtotum Personal Fabricator completely autonomous: once the print has started, the device will keep on running its task and there’s no need to stay connected to the FABUI (FABtotum User Interface).
Just relax and wait for it to finish.

2. A fully networked experience

Thanks to the FABUI (FABtotum User Interface), our Personal Fabricator is capable of printing autonomously (without being connected to a computer), from cabled LAN, Wireless LAN and even remotely from the Internet (Your Network must be properly configured for this).

Also, users and developers have access to a well known development ecosystem (the Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian Linux distribution) to develop new applications. The FABtotum features a customized web management app, SSH and VNC server on the local network, so with one authorization code you can access all the functions of the machine: 3D Printing, 3D Milling, Laser, Diagnostics.

All these functions are accessible not only from your local network, but also from any device with web browsing capabilities. Enjoy the pleasure of printing remotely from your smartphone, tablet, your windows Pc, Mac, Linux, Android, IOS. You can use touch screens devices, mouse, keyboard – you name it!

3. Open Source

The FABtotum Personal Fabricator is meant to push the boundaries of personal fabrication.

To do this, we want to involve people in the design process as much as possible and allow them to modify and improve the machine to fit their own needs without restrictions.

FABtotum allow the design and commercialization of third party heads to expand the machine capabilities.
The full documentations, including drawings and the reproduction of The FABtotum is allowed and encouraged under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 3.0 Unported Licence.

Find out more about the FABtotum Head Development Kit.

Full Schematics and instructions available online.
Open source Firmware and Software environment.
Easily customizable, expandable, easy to assemble.
Powered by a Raspberry Pi 3 + Arduino ™ Derivate/Compatible Open Source Physical Computing Platform.
Uses industry standards and Open Source software.
Third party heads or parts can be built and sold freely to fit on the FABtotum.